I haven't logged on for a few days because for the most part, I've been in a drug-induced haze.

KIDNEY STONE.

I have never experienced so much pain in my life. It feels as if my side is being torn apart. Wednesday night I went into the hospital, where I received my first ever shot of morpheine. (that stuff is GOOD!)

Since then I've been mostly in bed, taking Oxycodone whenever the pain starts acting up again. Haven't eaten much in the past 4 days. I slept through most of Halloween.

Can't wait for this damned stone to pass so that I can get on with my life.




...of yeah...and I've decided that if I were a woman, I would never go through childbirth.

How about laser surgery??

luv4u said:

I think that my stone isn't large enough to warrant surgery...although I need to speak w/ my doctor Monday. Basically the ER doc just said to keep the pain under control until it passes.

hope you get better soon!!!

veronikka said:

Thanks

Sorry to hear you are in such pain. Hopefully it'll pass soon.

My ex boyfriend had BAD kidney stones too. He had the ultrasound surgery to break them up. But had complications when one piece got stuck on it's way out, unbeknownst to him, and it became inflamed which led to a superhigh fever and excruciating pain. I had to dress him and practically carry him physically to the car to take him to the ER in the middle of the night. It was soooo scary cuz he's such a "man's man" ex-Marine, secret ops, jumping outta planes, laughing in the face of danger type dude. It was frightening as Hell seeing him helpless and vulnerable like that.

So make sure you take your temp regularly and if it goes up too high something's definitely wrong and go to the hospital ASAP.

awww....

PurpleJedi said:

yup those hurt. When I went in to have my gallbladder removed they would'nt do it cause they were waiting for a stone to pass. I turned yellow with gaundice,and the day before they were going to take me in to surgery to try to unblock it I unblocked itself. I remember feeling this pop. Hope you feel better soon!

I am so sorry!

I'm fairly certain passing a kidney stone is far worse then childbirth pain!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

you think? as far as time, he's already gone much longer than one who is going to give birth, OUCH!!!

veronikka said:

From what I have witnessed and heard from those that have done both, yes.

PurpleJedi said:

That's what I've always heard. That a kidney stone passing is as painful as childbirth.

I'm sorry you're feeling so rotten. From what I remember childbirth sucks ass.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

at least after childbirth you get a little baby

ZombieKitten said:

Isn't it adorable?





Sorry PurpleJedi. Get well soon.




My name is Stone.
Kidney Stone.

..looks like bone spurs!

I am sorry to hear this....I have been around someone who had to deal with a kidney stone..and seeing his pain killed me. I hope you get to feeling better soon.

hope you're feeling better now!

XxAxX said:

BlackAdder7 said:

well, i DID mention it was only for play, not for real. remember?

I'm still waiting for this damned thing to pass.
:angry:

Thanks for all the kind words...I was going to start surfing the web, but now I'm feeling that tell-tale ache that means I need another dose of oxycodone...and it's back to bed.


That's the worst part...being a uselss lump in bed. And not eating.

oh fuck... that hurts like hell!

PurpleJedi said:

dang. i've heard only bad things about those little suckers. bad things. nothing good. hope you're watching movies so funny they make you forget asllll about giving birth to a cluster of uric acid crystals.

I'm back at work 2day.

Still haven't given birth yet...but I'm not in excrutiating pain.

I'm off the oxycodone so I'm lucid again.

Been there done that - with ZERO meds

ER peeps


sucks HUGE


36 hrs of unmedicated childbirth was much easier

Hurry well


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Mach said:

no MEDS?!?!?!

That's inhuman. The ER that I went to was busy so they told us it would be "a few hours" before we'd be seen...but I asked for a bed to lie down in since the waiting room chair made by pain unbearable...and before you know it I was in a cot in the hallway of the ER.

I didn't care...I was attended right there in the hallway...and I was given morpheine.

I don't know who is doing all the complaining about "socializing" medicine...because what we have right now is not exactly spectacular. The ER was full of people who just needed a regular doctor's visit...that way someone with a wound (or side-splitting agony) can be attended properly.

That sux! I hope it passes soon.