I think I might have one. Not sure. Started all the sudden last night just sitting in the chair at the station. All the sudden my lower back started hurting for no reason at all. Took a couple of aspirin and about an hour later it just stopped hurting as fast as it started. Woke up this morning and I can now pinpoint exactly where it hurts. Right where my right kidney is. Pain comes and goes and so far it's not unbearable but just more of a dull pain. Been trying to keep well hydrated (beer counts right?) and right now it doesn't hurt but I keep thinking that later tonight it might.

Any suggestions?

Britt

 

Call your doctor to see what he says. You don't want to be in the wrong place place when the big one hit's ya. It's not just the blockage you have to worry about, they can cause strictures (little cuts) that can scar up and cause problems later.

 

Nothing to mess with Britt, get to the Dr. ASAP.

See what happens when you drive a Prius?

 

Had 3 of 'em. Agree on the getting a doc's input.
The first one put me in a hospital (a catholic one), a nun working there told me "You didn't hear this from me, but I have heard drinking beer will help disolve them", so you are on the right treatment path with the beer hydration method

~Rob

 

Man, if drinking beer dissolves them I should never get one

Britt

 

Britt,

I passed a couple of stones several years ago. I had a little back pain at first and then I became very sick to my stomach. All I wanted to do was throw up but I couldn't. By the time I made it to the ER I was lying in the fetal position. The nurses knew what it was and immediately started a line and a few minutes later I had Demerol and Phenergan on board and I felt great. After lying on a hospital bed for 3 hours I passed 2 stones with no pain. I wouldn't mess around with them. If they are too big to pass you will have to have them ultrasounded to break them up

Steve

 

Hmmm, interesting...I've had similar symptoms on and off for...some time now. Maybe a call to the doc in the AM.....

 

I have had them 5 or 6 times. 3 times requiring lithotripsy to break them up. Guys, don't worry about not going to the Dr. ------ When it gets bad you will be having someone driving you straight to the hospital as fast as they can take you. If it blocks your ureter, your kidney will swell,(Very painful when internal organ swells of course) and I tried rolling around on the floor and vomiting, but none of it helped. I would have cried if it would have helped. Good luck, go to Dr. and be done with it.

 

Yup went from dull pain to "get me to the ER fast"

Try thinking of a basketball passing through a straw, get the picture drugs were my best friend that day. Went into the ER at 10 a.m. didn't get out till 10 p.m.

Most pain I have ever had in my life!

 

If I go to the Dr. what can he do for me right now? Seems like only 2 things can happen. Either I pass it or I have it broken up if it is too big. Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to going to the Dr. but I figure all he can do for me now is just pain meds (also not opposed to but that is a whole other story). I really haven't felt any pain in the last 4-5 hours (nothing like it was) but that doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Britt

 

I have had them twice. I have a high pain tolerance ,but on the way to the hospital I had to stop and vomit 3 times. (Bad pain) Go in and get an xray. If you have a stone that will pass ,you will want to pee through a strainer so it can be analyzed to see what the stone is made of. Go to the hospital to get pain meds, you may need them. I was passing boulders.

 

My dad had them years ago when I was a kid. I can remember him on the floor in the fetal position. He finally went to the hospital and I guess they gave him some pain killer and he passed them. It was long ago and I don't really remember. The doctor did tell him that drinking alot tea can cause them. It's been at least 18 years and my old man hasn't had one glass of tea. Not one. I don't know if that's true or not, but he hasn't had any more.

 

Never had one, I must drink more beer than you.

Good luck, I Feel for you bud.


Tim

 

Man exactly same for me! except it took me 2 DAYS after the hospital to pass mine! I had 3 more crazy fetal position pain episodes before it passed!

 

Diet diet diet oh did say diet. Oh ya use a well known pain killer to get rid of it Southern Comfort.
Now is the time to look at what you have been eating.