So I am experiencing my first experience with a kidney stone. Last Friday at work I got a horrible pain in my left lower back below the ribs. I had no idea what it was and stayed at work hoping it would go away. When I got home my wife took me to a First Choice Emergency Room and they diagnosed a 3mm stone and gave me some morphine. After a couple of hours and a shot before I left I went to the Rx and got some Hydrocodon, Promethazine, and Tamsulosin. While on the meds on the weekend I had some minor pain when the stone was moving but nothing like Friday. Then Tuesday I did not take the meds until I got to work. The horrible pain came back and I left. After taking my 2nd Hydrocodon, the pain eventually subsided and I went to my Urologist. He said the stone was small and suggested I give it time to pass. Since then, I have had no pain and haven't taken Hydrocodon since the Tuesday episode. I am hoping the stone has made it to the bladder and out of the Ureter so it can finally pass soon. Anyone else have any stories and/or advice as this is my first one and I had no idea of the intensity of the pain it causes. And anyone ever had to have surgery to remove one?
It sucks. I recommend clearing your schedule on Saturday, hold off on the pain meds if you can, and flood yourself with equal measures of light beer and water. Eat some salty food to retain water so you can load up on the fluids even more. If the fluids don't make it pass, they'll at least make it smaller by dissolving it.
If it feels like you just pissed broken glass, then congratulations, it's time to put on some Jimi Hendrix because you'll be "Stone Free".
You have to drink a lot of fluids.
Some people have said drinking beer helped them pass the stone.
If you don't know what it is you're fortunate.
you had bad advice...should have had a pee
strainer. ..so you know if you passed stone..
I f you could work it couldnt be that bad...
it sounds like its in kindey and trying to come out
when it gets in ureter. Youll be on the floor...
take a ct scan
had 3 surgeries for removal and couple blast out. Most notable of just when you about to pass a stone is severe pain in lower abdomen (cramping like pain).
good luck..it sucks painwise no other way around it.