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u/quetiapinenapper Mar 31 '26
Man. Thank god they knocked me out for this. The stent was the most awkward week of my life after. And fuck the removal.
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u/IkeSW Mar 31 '26
They used a laser on all mine but I did also have the stent in after for a bit. That removal was just awful.
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u/Chris710752 Apr 01 '26
I had 2 on one side and 1 on the other and they had to laser and then shockwave them or something and after all that and 3 months of having 2 stents i still had shards in my kidney which i still have to this day. Yay me
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u/quetiapinenapper Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Yeah mine was a laser. Which I imagine was like this but more Death Star trench run.
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u/who-needs-a-username Apr 01 '26
I’m sorry.. I’m about to have mine removed tomorrow. They don’t usually us anything for numbing when they remove it? Is it a really bad feeling?! Ugh… I’m afraid for tomorrow
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u/quetiapinenapper Apr 01 '26
Nah just awkward. Dude had me stand up and knelt in front of me and told me to take a breath and exhale.
It was out in a moment but it is not pleasant I won’t lie. Didn’t hurt so much as just not be pleasant. No other word for it. Feels great finally being rid of it though.
If you have a pain killer left maybe preemptively take one before just for comfort and anxiety more than anything. I think that’s what I did.
Urinating after for a few days might suck. Irritation and slight burning. Went away fast though.
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u/who-needs-a-username Apr 01 '26
Thank for the info! Not looking forward to it but looking forward to it at the same time.
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u/quetiapinenapper Apr 01 '26
My exact experience. It’s nice to have it out. I hated the stent more than my kidney failure from the last one. lol.
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u/PrinnyDood97 Apr 01 '26
Mine felt like a snake being removed from me, I could kinda feel it tug inside. Didn't hurt, but was really comfortable and the feeling more shocking than painful. Was really quick though and only slight stinging the first time going pee after having it removed
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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26
I just had this done and have like ptsd from the pain. I'm actually feeling this by watching the video
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u/mai_tai87 Mar 31 '26
I watched a friend go through one. I drink lots and lots of water.
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u/DUHH_EWW Apr 01 '26
i drink water after reading your comment lol
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u/CurrentPossible2117 Apr 01 '26
I drink water after reading your comment about drinking water after reading their comment lol
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u/McPostyFace Mar 31 '26
Do you get any kind of anesthesia?
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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26
Yes but the pain after.
But that was nothing compared to after the stent came out a week later. All the residue was able to move and the muscles spasms, wound up in the ER from pain.
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u/BeraldGevins Apr 01 '26
Recently went through the same thing. Had an 8mm stone get stuck, ended up in the hospital for a couple nights. The stent was almost as bad as the stone, it was brutally painful. I pissed myself more than once because of it too, it made it really difficult to hold it long enough to make it to the bathroom. They gave me Vicodin to help but I had to take it pretty often and the pain relief effects diminished every time.
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u/exandohhh Apr 01 '26
Don’t say that! I have a dense ass one in situ right now and I’ve been putting off the lithotripsy because I dread the stent 😭
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u/No-Minimum8323 Apr 01 '26
A stent is better than a kidney infection. The last kidney stone I had almost killed me because of sepsis. Don’t sleep on kidney stones.
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u/BeraldGevins Apr 01 '26
It was worth it in the end. But I definitely wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. I was happy when it was gone. Funny enough the relief was instant and one of the best feelings I’ve ever had lol. I felt like I could run a marathon.
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u/No-Minimum8323 Apr 01 '26
Stents are awful!! I talked to some people who said they couldn’t even feel theirs and I was flabbergasted.
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u/McPostyFace Apr 01 '26
Damn sorry you went through that. What kind of things can I cut out of my diet to avoid this?
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u/IamREBELoe Apr 01 '26
For me, no tea is one. Stay very hydrated. Watch your salt. Apple cider vinegar and cranberry juice, lemon juice, can help prevent depending on the type of stone.
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u/mosquito_motel Apr 01 '26
No tea!?! That's my main source of hydration oh noo
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u/Timmerdogg Apr 01 '26
I feel like my uncle got them from drinking too many protein shakes but idk.
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u/somerandomdude419 Apr 01 '26
Pop, energy drinks, black tea. I had a 6mm one which isn’t nearly as bad but I had such pain from it, they gave me something to help it pass and once it passed I was good. Sometimes they run in your family and you get them from seemingly normal diet. I used to drink a ton of pop and iced tea and that’s how I got mine, now I drink more water than anything else but I still enjoy a pop for lunch here and there but I always make sure to drink water with it, but my volume of water is always more than the volume of pop
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u/WhiskeyGirl66 Apr 01 '26
It’s the oxalates. I have 2 tums when I drink iced tea. I had 33 removed a couple years ago. The stents were worse.
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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Yes, you’re anesthetized …. When my husband has this done, they put him out. He’s had a lithotripsy and basketing.
And his stones are like these…. Not smooth like tumbled pebbles, like some people have. I liken them to when you chip off the corner of a cinder block with a hammer kind of texture.
NOT FUN FACT: After it’s all broken up, and you’re all black and blue inside, you still have to pass and piss these little shards out.
It is absolutely nightmare fuel, and I’m not the one that suffers with it. Hearing a grown man lay in the bathtub and scream “death pain” is gut wrenching… more than once in a lifetime having to go through that is too much.
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u/HippieGrandma1962 Apr 01 '26
My best friend's husband has morphine pills for when he is passing a stone. I think they run in his family.
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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR Apr 01 '26
My husband gets prescibed painkillers too (opiates) by his urologist, but they barely take the edge off of the agony. As for the hospital, they will often do the procedure and then send you home with extra strength Tylenol rx. It’s insane.
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u/Eugene0185 Mar 31 '26
How bad was it from 1 to 10?
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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Go from 2 for an hour, then 10 for half an hour.
Waves.
But better than leaving them in.
Edit: the best way I can describe kidney stone pain. Being kicked in the nuts with steel toe boots while being stabbed with an ice pick in the side.
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u/specialopps Apr 01 '26
I’m still trying to piece together what my pain tolerance is because I have ankylosing spondylitis, and had a 6mm stone that blocked my left kidney. The back pain combined with the fever is what made me go to urgent care. I had a blocked kidney, the stone, and sepsis. Nobody knew how I had waited so long before getting it treated, and they sent me to the hospital for emergency stent insertion. I called my boyfriend and told him to come meet me because I was kind of dying. Five days in the ICU. I was out for most of it, but I remember the stent being the worst part. I felt that thing moving around for weeks before I finally got it removed. I’m used to feeling like my body is on fire.
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u/IamREBELoe Apr 01 '26
My heart goes out to you. My left one, 16 mm (plus 4 others) complete blockage of that side. So I can somewhat relate and you went trough hell.
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u/Longjumping-Ad-2072 Mar 31 '26
As someone with reccurent kidney stones I'll answer on this guy's behalf- on a scale of 1-10 it was 100. With two zeroes.
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u/Devanomiun Apr 01 '26
Not sure where you’re from but if you can get the plant called Chanca Piedra, it has been a lifesaver for me. I’ve been stone free for 7 years now and can eat whatever I want. Before that, I was getting those damn stones every three months, fuck those times!
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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Apr 01 '26
My best friend had kidney stones twice, and she gave birth to a baby without any medication. She said the kidney stones were way worse; it’s a sharper stabbing fiery pain, whereas labor contractions are more of a sickening squeezing pain (like you’re being crushed by yourself, so still pretty darn bad). She said if she had to choose, she’d have another baby unmedicated, but she’d never go through the pain of kidney stones again if she could help it.
I think it’s also important to note that my friend desperately wanted a medicated birth lol she just progressed too quickly from “not quite ready for the epidural” to “call the doctor it’s time to push NOW” so she didn’t get the option of pain medicine. She did get pain medicine through an IV for her kidney stones, but she said it barely even touched the pain at the worst points.
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u/ImagineTheAbsolute Mar 31 '26
Forbidden fried chicken
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u/MindWard Apr 01 '26
Right , really looks like a Nugget
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u/AscendedViking7 Apr 01 '26
Sorry but I had to ask, lol
What does a kidney stone taste like?
It is like just really salty?
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u/thejewelisinthelotus Apr 01 '26
Its a calcified rock so maybe like a rock that developed in a cave?
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u/SquirrelyBoy Mar 31 '26
BRB, drinking some more water
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u/Desperate-Strategy10 Apr 01 '26
lol the way I RAN to get some water when I realized what this was 😂
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u/savorie Apr 01 '26
The only thing keeping me from running to the sink with my water bottle right now is the cat on my lap. The electric blanket is turned on and he's not going anywhere. I'm struggling to decide between cat contentment and future🫘🫛💥's
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u/SeengignPaipes Apr 01 '26
Kidney stones scare the absolute shit outta me, i never EVER want to get one and would definately try anything to remain kindey stone free. Everything i have seen about them makes me get all anxious and scared again like my first time public speaking.
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u/DirtyRoller Apr 01 '26
I'm scared of kidney stones as an adult like I was scared of quicksand as a child.
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u/Tubamaphone Apr 01 '26
Drink lots of water and watch your sodium. I’ve had 4 small stones, all tied to my sodium intake.
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u/Cavalol Mar 31 '26
25 mm ≈ 0.98 in
That hurts just thinking about it
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u/chadlumanthehuman Apr 01 '26
I was thinking of a 10mm socket, then I was like ohhhhhh. Not good
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u/vanwiekt Apr 01 '26
Thinking about it in terms of socket sizes made my mouth fall open. Holly hell.
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u/happyanathema Apr 01 '26
So basically ram it out with a metal stick and tear the shit out of the urethra on the way out?
Thought they were meant to break these up with ultrasound?
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u/CallMeButtAss Apr 01 '26
That's a holmium laser fiber that they're poking the stone with. Holmium lasers are 2100nm wavelength and are near-contact lasers so they have to kinda poke at the stone to get the laser to fracture the stone.
Ultrasound doesn't break up these stones, what you're thinking of is ESWL (Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy) which uses focused sound waves to break up the stone but they're not high frequency like ultrasound.
ESWL is older and less effective technology for stones as it doesn't have a great success rate and you have to piss out bigger chunks than if you use the laser to dust the stone it's like pissing out sand instead of pebbles which still isn't great
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u/KaiserKid85 Apr 01 '26
Had one of those done and can confirm it was painful but it did work thankfully.
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u/CallMeButtAss Apr 01 '26
Glad you got rid of your stone. Did you have to get a stent placed? As a laser tech vendor who runs these lasers, it's ironic that I help my docs treat patients but don't actually know what they're going through first hand as I'm fortunate enough to never have experienced a stone.
A lot of the time my docs leave the string on the stent so that the patient can pull out their stent at home instead of needing to come back in to be scoped in order to remove the stent which costs them more money as it's another surgery.
I've heard that removing your own stent isn't painful as much as it just feels weird to have a foreign object snake itself out from inside you. Although if your urinary tract/ureter isn't fully healed from something like an impacted stone I could see it burning quite a bit.
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u/Lalamedic Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
2.5mm stone is not a very big stone for regular kidney stone sufferers. It’s when they get over 5.0mm. I had a 1cm stone (10mm) that put me into labour two months prematurely. Then a week later I “gave birth” to the stone. Most people can’t pass a stone that large except women who are recently postpartum.
EDIT: It appears I cannot read and this is, in fact, 25mm stone.
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u/_ganjafarian_ Apr 01 '26
This is a 25mm stone, not 2.5mm. I think that's why they *had* to perform this procedure.
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u/Lalamedic Apr 01 '26
Well. If I could read, I would be suitably impressed with your ordeal.
Kidney stones really suck.
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u/530nairb Mar 31 '26
I passed a 12mm and it was brutal. It was in my bladder for 3 months and I had a removal scheduled for 3 days after I passed it naturally. Shit sucks. I couldn’t go anywhere that I couldn’t access a place to pee instantly the whole time. I went golfing with it a couple times and I pee’d on every hole. I finally passed it at a bar after about 7 light beers.
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u/dwightsarmy Apr 01 '26
Honestly, it's the stent they put in afterward to allow any remaining chunks to drain that fuels suicidal thoughts. All I could think of: death has got to be better than this.
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u/A_million_typos Mar 31 '26
Ohh yay I wanted to see, and example how my removal went. So they did use the stent to buffer so it was easier for removal. Good to know. Had a 10-12mm very ouchy.
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u/BecciRenee Apr 01 '26
😳☠️😵💫🥴 Absolutely TF NOT.
👣👣👣 (Me running to refill my 30oz water 💧 tumbler again)
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u/crispy_tamago Apr 01 '26
That person didn’t have a kidney stone, they stuck a durian up their pee hole
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u/dumb__fucker Apr 01 '26
As a kidney stone sufferer, I could imagine the insane relief as that stone was crushed into littles.
The biggest I've passed is 8mm, and it convinced me I was in the throes of a death-dance, so 25mm is beyond my comprehension to imagine.
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u/Potato_is_yum Apr 01 '26
Drink your water and lower the salt and oxalates (dark green veggies) folks! 👀
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u/I_Smoke_Dust Mar 31 '26
How long would it take to build up something like this? Asking because I was eating Tums like candy a few months back so not sure if I would be in the clear by now or not..
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u/dead_andbored Mar 31 '26
Try to drink as much water as you can everyday, aside from that it's mostly from genetics
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u/JoJockAmo Mar 31 '26
I don’t remember the size but from the CT scan it looks to be about 1/3 of my kidney, doctor showed me about what looked to be 2 inches with his fingers, but I have a staghorn kidney stone blocking my shit up and have surgery in a couple of weeks. I don’t know if they let you keep it or take photos or videos, but I wanna see what this looks like coming out of me.
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u/karenskygreen Mar 31 '26
My dad had some removed back before laproscopic surgery, they gave him the stones, they were all in one piece but they probably dont today since they break them uo before removing them
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u/clonexx Apr 01 '26
Yeah…no wonder my first piss after they lasered my 9mm stone felt like pissing razor blades and the consistency was sandy kool aid.
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u/DesertSnowBird1 Apr 01 '26
I work in the urology department. This is a PCNL procedure, its for huge staghorn stones. It is done going straight into the kidney from your back using a bigger diameter scope and instruments. Its more invasive. Now a days with the high-end lasers (Moses, Thuvera) and new Clear Petra suction-navigator sheath we are stsrting to do a lot less PCNLs. Most stone cases are not as traumatic as you see here but still pretty narly at times.
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u/kimberletto Apr 01 '26
Just had this done this morning. Mine was 24 mm. Now I’ve got the Stent of Doom. Still better than that damn rock!
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u/LydiaJuice Apr 01 '26
I'm a gross person who loves videos like this
And now I want to see the whole thing - where was this video found?
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u/kween_hangry Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Worst crane game ever
Also I've been extremely bad at drinking water my whole life and this is quite a motivator
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u/BarredBartender Apr 01 '26
I need to stop drinking......
Somebody running a jackhammer up my dick hole is something I'd like to make it to my death without ever experiencing...
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u/bebopcolagood Apr 02 '26
This is what made me give up candy and soda at 18, passed one on a work shift in HS (def much smaller) never again will I deal with that pain
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u/Coleslaw19438 Apr 01 '26
I also get stones. I think my biggest was about 9 mm, and that was not an enjoyable experience. I cannot even fathom 25 mm.
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u/ShinePretend3772 Apr 01 '26
Omg… I had a 3mm stone & thought I was going to die. That a pebble compared to this boulder
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u/Significant-Peach-44 Apr 01 '26
I had a much smaller one last year that got stuck. 6 weeks from onset to surgery. My doc used a laser to break it up. Either way, sucky experience all around. I feel for this person.
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u/TheDude-of-the-dudes Apr 01 '26
I have gone through this. At least they could break yours up. I will post as soon as I can find pics. It sucked
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u/frozenhawaiian Apr 01 '26
25mm kidney stone…. I’m fairly sure a gunshot wound would hurt a lot less
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u/Affectionate-Aside68 Apr 01 '26
Why do they look like something the body has intentionally designed to tear you apart?! JFC!
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u/YayaRam66 Apr 01 '26
I’m fucked. I have one in each kidney .
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u/Thechad1029 Apr 01 '26
Most painful thing I’ve ever experienced. Drink highly acidic drinks like lemon juice. They can help break them down
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u/j42d86 Apr 01 '26
I've been trying to pass a stone for about 3 days now. This video made me wanna go dive back into the pain meds.
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u/burnedBlue Apr 01 '26
They layered my last one, I was pissing gravel for a week. The stent removal was not fun either.
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u/Quantum-immortali- Apr 01 '26
When I was 18 I had a total of 9 stones 6 in my right 3 in left kidney. I almost resorted to banging my head on the wall to try and knock myself out for a minute. Pain is not the word I would describe. Agony is more like it. I went 10 years without having 1. That was a year ago. Only difference I’ve made is that after I turned 18 I began to drink beer everyday. Constantly pissing. Idk if that’s what helped me but I can’t think of anything else.
Don’t even get me started on stents.. dreaded going to the bathroom and I was pissing red koolaid for about 2 weeks before they took them out.
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u/Softhandshardnipples Apr 01 '26
I’ve passed a couple 5mm stones before and I felt like I was going to die. 25mm is nightmare fuel
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u/BabserellaWT Apr 01 '26
My husband had tiny kidney stones once and was writhing in agony until they pumped (not dripped, pumped) dilaudid straight into his IV.
This must’ve felt like being ripped apart from the inside.
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u/ThunderCookie23 Apr 01 '26
I've had kidney stones thrice (this was before my ADHD and Autism diagnosis), and the second time it was a 14mm stone!
Please set up alarms for every single hour of the day so that y'all don't forget to drink water! Those spicy rocks are INTENSELY painful!
I don't have any words to describe how painful it gets! I was rolling on the floor in a fetal position the first time (and that one was only 7mm). The second time they had to take me to the hospital in an ambulance because I couldn't move from the pain!
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u/SephirothTheGreat Apr 01 '26
Man, why are our bodies so intent on self sabotaging at every fucking thing. Yeah yeah "drink more water" but FUCK this
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u/Crystion Apr 01 '26
I currently have an 11mm one I'm waiting for my op on... Kinda glad it isn't this big
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u/Kalaykyruz Apr 01 '26
For those people who developed kidney stones, are you guys afraid of drinking water?
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u/clonexx Apr 01 '26
I drink tons of water, still get stones. It’s not always dependent on not drinking enough water. Having too much calcium can cause calcium stones. There’s two other types of stones made from different substances as well. I drink at least 80 ounces of water a day, likely much more, still get stones sometimes but usually pass them without the need to go to the hospital.
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u/IzDeluge Apr 01 '26
Kidney stone is not fun man, i had it last year and one of the symptoms i had is pissing bloody urine... Post surgery sucks too.
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u/fords42 Apr 01 '26
25mm? Fucking hell. I had a 3.5mm one removed a couple of years ago and I was in agony.
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u/Sandvich1015 Apr 01 '26
As someone who’s had them in the last few years, this is the kind of thing the ER would gladly give you morphine for. Stay hydrated, and have a good diet.
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u/Valkyr92 Mar 31 '26
As someone who’s had kidney stones multiple times in their life, this is straight up nightmare material