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Previous kidney stones haven't been exactly fun, but weren't nearly the agony most men's & some women's are.

This one was. I hope that "was" means its over. At least it temporarily is over. Very suddenly.

Has to do with the size & shape of stone, how it cuts up the places its traveling through. It may not be out, but at least its repositioned itself *somewhere*.

I've been drinking boatloads of water, both because that's what my doctor prescribes *for life* & because its been so awfully hot lately. Well, not today, even though today is when it would be most useful, because today I can barely keep *water* down.

Didn't seem to help. Or maybe that's what got it moving.

Not fair.

ghostjmf wrote:Previous kidney stones haven't been exactly fun, but weren't nearly the agony most men's & some womnen's are.

This one was. I hope that "was" means its over. At least it temporarily is over. Very suddenly.

Has to do with the size & shape of stone, how it cuts up the places its traveling through. It may not be out, but at least its repositioned itself *somewhere*.

I've been drinking boatloads of water, both because that's what my doctor prescribes *for life* & because its been so awfully hot lately.

Didn't seem to help. Or maybe that's what got it moving.

Not fair.

Ouch. I feel for you, ghost. Been there, done that, once in my life (as reflected by the seven-pound weight loss in a single week on Bob's Log) and it was enough to get me to significantly change my habits. I hope this incident is now in your past. --Bob

This is a recurrent thing for me, it seems. My doctor prescribes having someone come over & basically hit me in the kidney, though not hard enough to do damage. I don't have that kind of friends around here; my sister would if I asked, but she's currently in NYC.

Retrospectively, this was brewing for days, but when it started its actual journey to wherever, the pain came on *fast*. And lasted most of today 'til now.

My sympathies, Ghost - I hear those are beyond awful. Take care.

What's even more "fun", I believe I have at long last captured the actual stone. My urologist thinks I have uric acid stones, because they don't show up on X-rays but do on sonograms & CT scans; they are what is called "radiolucent" instead of "radiopaque", & uric acid stones are pretty much the only type that fit that description.

But now that I have an actual stone (considering where I scooped it up from, what else could it be? Don't think there was any cat gravel in the bowl before, as I keep it closed so kitty cannot drink/swim/whatever-he-wants-to in it) so we could have it analyzed. Which I would probably have to pay for. Also, urologist would want me to come in for more scans, even though the stone's gone, at which time I would find out how my non-improved insurance pays or not. I'm scheduled for a sonogram this winter anyway. I may wait.

The first transit that a stone makes is into the bladder. Many people experience extreme relief once it drops into the bladder. Bladder is quite acidic and many stones are dissolved there, or at least reduced in size. Nonetheless, some remain and start the second transit. For a guy, this is not fun; I can't exactly imagine how a woman would perceive this...

Women have wider urethras. For me, I would bet the massive pain involved movement either within my kidney or from my kidney through the ureter, a not-so-wide tube, to the bladder.