Kidney stones

[Kirg]

I know how it feels.

[chuddo]

my kidney stone magnified 40x:


reposting joke, brilliant.

[Kirg]

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That sucks man.

A while ago I posed a question to OOT asking whether people would rather have a kidney stone or drink 1oz of another man's semen (guaranteed to be disease free). Now that you have experienced the pain of kidney stones, which would you choose?

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I'll keep my stones thank you very much.

[Randy_Refeld]

I get stones fairly often. 5 mm is quite large. Is it calcium or uric acid or something else?

[vulturesrow]

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vultures,

i feel your pain and understanding completely the hell that is kidney stones. if you search, you will find a thread i started in the past, and another someone else created where i posted as well.

happy it isn't me,
chuddo.

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Funny thing is, I usually do a quick search before starting a new topic but I thought I was safe here. Shouldve known there is no such thing as a new topic in OOT. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Anyhow, thanks for all the well wishes, not feeling any pain at the moment but Im sure its just a matter of time before it starts again. As for the semen question, well, lets just say I dont consider the 1 oz of semen answer unreasonable at all. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[craig r]

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Does anyone know what can be done to prevent this?

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Easy. Stop drinking beverages with sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

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I thought caffeine and stress were on that list as well.

craig

[radek2166]

Uroligist told me to drink water with either lemon or lime in it. If I keep getting them meds here i come. Biggest stone so far was 9x5mm I have 5 right now 3 on the right 2 on the left.

If they do a cystocopy(sp) Good luck the sten they put in hurt worse than the ston.

I called the doctor after a week and the Nurse asked me If I had a string hanging out of the end of my penis like a tampoon. I said NO. She said usually all I would have to do is come to the office and they would just pull it out or, I could go under generl and they would pull it out.

I said the [censored] u are doing this to me while I am awake.

[Blarg]

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Does anyone know what can be done to prevent this?

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Easy. Stop drinking beverages with sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

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I thought caffeine and stress were on that list as well.

craig

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I think I recall reading that some people who take too much supplemental vitamin C get this sometimes too, but it's not very common. Many people take enormous amounts of Vitamin C and pretty few actually get kidney stones because of it.

[Isura]

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Does anyone know what can be done to prevent this?

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Easy. Stop drinking beverages with sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

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Phew. Good thing my diet consists of 8 glasses water, 1 glass milk, and 1 glass of orange juice.

[SteamingFish]

I had one this summer (7mm, that's right, nuthin' small on me). Had the ESWL (shockwave treatment) and a ureter stent put in, went back a week later, they said the shockwaves had no effect and I'd need the ESWL surgery again. Unfortunately, they were booked for the next two months. For those that don't know, the stent feels like somebody is grabbing your testicles from the inside a little too tightly. You also have to pee every five seconds and it hurts a little each time. It was a loooooong two months.

Out of desperation (of both the stent and the possibility of another potentially useless operation), I tried lithanol and the coke-and-asparagus remedy. Right before the second surgery, the surgeon came out and said my stones had broken up and gotten smaller and they'd be able to pull out what was left of the stones and the stent. I'm not normally one to try some quack remedies I found on the net, but I did in this case, and those were the results. Maybe it was all a delayed reaction from the first ESWL, but who knows... I certainly can't say they DIDN'T work. In any case, with the stent gone, I walked out of that operation feeling like a groggy Superman.

They also gave me a sheet of paper with a huge list of things I should never eat again and some I could eat in moderation. Seeing as how I would die of starvation if I followed their list, I'm choosing to gambooool and eat whatever I want.

It would take what, 5-10 minutes to eat 1 oz. of semen? Compared to the pain, hassle, operation(s), etc., I'd take the man-juice any day.

Coke and asparagus: on a relatively empty stomache, drink a 2-liter bottle of coke (caffeine-free is fine) over a two-hour period, followed immediately by 6-8 oz. of puree asparagus.