A Stone and more!

[breakingwaves]

Well I have been reading here but I have been quiet for awhile, but now like before I am looking to hear from you super heart people!

On Friday I was going to my PCP for some stuff that had been going on I was sure about absess teeth, viral infection, had blood in the urine, when on the way a lady pulled right out in front my grandaughter and I and we did not even have a second to step on the brake. It was pretty intense the only thing is at the time I must have been going only about 20 miles an hour but still it was like hitting a concrete wall. Both of us were taken by ambulance to the hospital, she with head injury and me with knees banged up and stomach pain from the steering wheel. The front of my car is totally smashed.

Anyhow, the kept me overnight for followup with the stomach as well as when doing the cat scan my vein blew and the dye when into my arm making me look like the incredible hulk. While there they also found what was probably the problem for my going to the doctor in the first place, a marble size kidney stone. which leads to my questions, I have had a small one before which passed after 6 weeks with pain meds but this they said is definitely too big. Lucky me! So in looking at the options they all seem pretty painful, and I would just love to melt the thing and be done with it but they said in the little I talked to the stone doc, that with the heart, the cardio doc most likely will say no. The shock ultrasound thing I am wondering about of course for level of pain and also since I am bruised inside right now anyway how much trouble could I get into with that?

Anyone have such a bizarre experience that would care to share? I would appreciate it, I am trying not to put my head into a frenzy. thanks ahead of time and PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

 

[hensylee]

brother has had the ultra sound treatment 3 times. It was outpatient procedure (tho with your heart, it might be overnight). Actually he stayed in overnight the first time because they did it so late in the day. He didn't have pain after (nor during) - they numbed him from waist down first time (epidural, I guess). They put you in some sort of tub and blast away. His complaint after was that he couldn't feel his legs. Once home, he did just fine. Passed some blood and the dust from the stone. It was the best procedure around at the time and maybe still is. A far cry from the old time way. Course your cardio will weigh in on this, but in the final analysis it has to come out, you know. Blessins......

 

[strawberry]

owie ow ow ow

owie ow ow ow

I had a kidney stone and have recurrent salivary stones. Never had my vein blow up. Kidney stones are the worst! I can say the pain is worse than labor pains. I have plenty of bizarre stories though. I had a cyst removed two years ago from my foot. It came back and I couldn't put a shoe on. I hobbled to the freezer for an ice pack, opened it and a frozen pound of butter fell on my OTHER foot. Now I couldn't walk at all or put either shoe on. This was January. The doc sent me to PT to break up scar tissue in my foot and 1 1/2 hours after I left my neck stiffened up and was stuck sideways and forward. Apparently I concetrated too hard and stirred up an old whiplash injury. That was four days ago. Muscle relaxants and a collar since then and I can almost look sideways. So I hope all goes well with you and stays well.

 

[hensylee]

oh Straw, please forgive me - it's such bad manners - but I am laughing my head off right now....

haha - hope haha you haha get haha better hahahaha soon hahaha....rofl

I am soooo haha sorry for laughing but I can just picture it. hahahaha ooh, sorry ha - signing off before you get me banned from VR.

 

[strawberry]

That's OK my family laughs at me too. Because unfortunately it's typical of me. My neck is getting a little better every day. Of course I go back to PT tomorrow. Yikes.

 

[Glenda]

Breakingwaves
My husband had kidney stones a couple of years ago. They would not pass and he was in so much pain. We ended up going to the ER around 3:00 in the morning. They did try to blast it out with the ultra sound but it didn't work so he had to have surgery to remove them. He did fine from the surgery, a little pain but not like having the acutal kidney stone. He hasn't had another one since.

Strawberry
What a funny story. I'm like Hensley I couldn't keep from laughing at loud. I'm sorry too! ! You almost sound like an accident ready to happen. LOL

 

[Harrybaby666]

Oh My Heavens!!!

Oh My Heavens!!!

Hey there breakingwaves....
PLEAD...BEG....DEMAND the docs to help you get rid of those stones...I Just had a huge stone removed from my left kidney and I had one pass from my right kidney, and the pain was absolutely the worst pain I have ever felt in my life! i pray i never have them again...I had mine removed by Dartmouth Hitchcock putting a tube in my back, then going in and smashing the stone into tiny pieces and then had them suctioned out....Here is wishing you the best of care, and I am glad that you and your grandaughter were not hurt more seriously...I hope you are both feeling better and you get everything else squared away. Take Care. Harrybaby666

 

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

Breaking,

I had a stone once, when I was preggy with my first son. They wouldn't give me anything, said it was small and it would pass on its own. I do remember getting a pain med was but too afraid to take it, worrying what it would do to the baby. Well, let me tell you childbirth WAS easier than passing that thing! I don't have much else to add, other than I'm sorry you're having to go through this and glad that you and your granddaughter are relatively ok!

I am SO glad someone else found poor Strawberry's post funny. I felt horrible for laughing! rofl

Hang in there you two! This too, will pass!

Shelia

 

[strawberry]

Breaking,

I agree with Harrybaby...if they see them and can break them up before having to try and pass them, count yourself lucky for the incidental find.

Days without accidents:5. I hope I don't jinx myself.

Take care and drink lots of water if you have to pass them!

 

[Debbrn]

Kidney stones

Kidney stones

Breakingwaves,

You wanted a bizarre story. Your wish is granted. Eventhough this story is scary please laugh at the funny parts.

In April 1997 I went to my adult cardiologist for follow-up of near syncope episodes. (I have history of TOF). He referred me to one of the top thoracic surgeons in that state because he did not like what he saw on my echo. After the surgeon scheduled me for heart surgery for a PVR I got a second opinion from a ped cardio. The ped cardio did not think that I needed surgery yet, and was waiting to talk to the surgeon. Here is were it gets interesting. I woke up Sunday morning at 6:30 in the morning with SEVERE left back pain. It felt like a butcher knife was in my back. A friend took me to the closest community ER. I had Demerol going in my veins within 30 minutes of arrival. YEAH! In the ER I had them give me the pain medicine slowly and put me on monitors because I am so sensitive to pain medication. After the completed the test to diagnose the kidney stone the demerol stopped working. I finally arrived to my floor bed and did not tell them to put me on monitors because I was to tired to think to tell them. They then gave me dilauded. IT STOPPED OF MY PAIN, BUT IT ALSO STOPPED MY BREATHING. Since I told them that the surgeon told me how bad my pulmonary valve and right ventricle was doing they were afraid to give me enough of the reversal drug to increase my breathing enough, so they put a tube down my lungs and put me on the ventilator. After The drugs wore off the next morning they took me off the ventilator. That evening I went back to a regular room and was discharged on tuesday morning WITH my kidney stone. When I got home I called the cardiologist to find out what was decided after he talked to the surgeon. He told me that he had paged me 3 times the day before and I did not answer my page. I told him that I did not call him back because I was in ICU on the ventilator. (I guess that was better than the dog ate my homework). The kidney stone finally passed on its own a week later and I had a heart cath 2 weeks later by the ped cardio. It proved that I did not need heart surgery at the time. I think that the urologist jumped for joy as much as I did when it passed on it own.

The rumors at work went to the extreme. Anything to the truth all the way to I needed emergency heart surgery and was in ICU. I was back to work on thursday and spent most of the day telling people what actually happened.

Debbie

 

[hensylee]

Wow, Debbie - talk about mixed messages. You got everybody going, didn't you. Glad it all worked out.

That dilaudid is awful stuff.

Harry, we could have some discussions about childbirth vs kidney stone!

Straw, we're keeping count.

Maybe we ought to start a thread about bizarre incidents.

Breakingwaves, we didn't forget about you - just got sidetracked for a moment. How are you doing?

 

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Hensylee

Hensylee

well it has been a week, and I wish I could say that the pain is less, I seem to have broken a few ribs. I see the cardiologist Monday to ask what prodecure he thinks for the stone. I had one before that was painful as heck but was small enough to pass, this one will not be able to be passed. My PCP wants me to wait three weeks for the ribs to heal. I hope I can. I will probably go with the ultrasound thing and then hoep that it breaks up enough.

 

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Strawberry

Strawberry

I have had the kidney stone but I must admit I am really afraid of one so big.
what a story!

 

[breakingwaves]

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prttyprttyprncss

Ouch, even with my first stone they gave me sone pain med, I don't think I would have made it without it!

 

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Glenda

Glenda

I do know that it comes with pain, I am so tired of pain, and yet I know more is to come, :O(. I have had 48 gallstones and a gallbladder removed, I have had diverticulitis,holes in the intestine, so popcorn or nuts are out of my diet for good, and I became infected with it, and it was a real ouch, a kidney stone , now some broken ribs , this marble size stone and oh of course the open heart thing coming up. I am so tired of hurting! I don't know if they will have to do the surgery or not and I am not sure if my heart surgeon will say okay, he didn't even want me to have a D & C!

 

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Harrybaby666

Harrybaby666

I am so sorry that you had to go through that! I do remember how much it hurts, I thought I would not have to go through that again. I am scared of it being so big and what will have to take place. Do they put you under for the procedure? I am hoping that is all there is, just the one, and I hope it doesn't cause too much pain. I am in much pain today but then it is hard to tell if it is the ribs or the stone. MY OXYCODONE doesn't seem to be working very well.

 

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Debbrn

Debbrn

Oh my gosh, that would have been so scary! I am so glad it passed on its own.