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Started peeing brown urine Monday afternoon. Went to GP walk in centre who diagnosed a uti. By 23:30 I was on my hands and knees in a&e with the worst stomach pain I've ever experienced. After x-rays, blood and urine tests, they diagnosed a 4mm kidney stone. To my amazement they discharged me with pain killers. The pain was controlled to a degree, but still extremely uncomfortable. After speaking to my GP today, I'm on stronger pain killers and anti nausea tablets. I might have to wait a week to get an appointment with a consultant at the stone clinic at hospital.
Any tips on how to get comfortable, and what the chances of passing a 4mm stone are? Gp seemed to be unconcerned with the whole thing, but it's been a week of agony so far!
Any tips on how to get comfortable, and what the chances of passing a 4mm stone are? Gp seemed to be unconcerned with the whole thing, but it's been a week of agony so far!
Sympathies, I've passed three stones since my first in 1977. None of them was as big as that and the first felt like I was dying. Told it would feel like I was pissing broken glass too, but not the case.
Problem I found is that, unlike a lot of pain, you just cannot find a position that alleviates it. It depends where the stone is but I found vigorous massage in the kidney region could shift it enough to relieve a bit of pressure. Also breathing methods that women are told to adopt in childbirth, but that's really temporary.
Sorry not good news, I know. Assume they've given you stuff to relax muscles and also expand the ureter to help pass the stone.
Problem I found is that, unlike a lot of pain, you just cannot find a position that alleviates it. It depends where the stone is but I found vigorous massage in the kidney region could shift it enough to relieve a bit of pressure. Also breathing methods that women are told to adopt in childbirth, but that's really temporary.
Sorry not good news, I know. Assume they've given you stuff to relax muscles and also expand the ureter to help pass the stone.
Thanks guys, yes, I thought my number was up too. Right now I should be enjoying my wedding anniversary night out - a piano concert in Hamburg with my wife. Instead I'm in bed in Sheffield with a hot water bottle on my stomach wondering what's going to happen next. Always at the back of my mind that it might be something worse with these things...
There was no way I was getting on an aircraft immediately after 6 hours in a&e.
There was no way I was getting on an aircraft immediately after 6 hours in a&e.
I've passed 2 over the years. First one was the worst pain I've ever felt. Started a few days before with constant need to piss and it being browny coloured, got worse over time with me passing blood before I eventually had to go into A&E with the pain. The morphine was bliss that night. Spent 2 nights in hospital (during which some old bloke nicked my trainers), consultant was considering going up there to get it out but ended up being sent home where I passed it (them really as a bit broke off in the way out) at home. Main one was about 5mm and shaped a bit like an ancient arrowhead. Weird sensation as it transits into the old chap.
Second one a few years later was from the other side, not as big thankfully. Went to A&E on a Sunday but went home after getting fed up waiting several hours.
Interestingly was told after the scan I had for my first one I had two tubes (ureter?) going into the kidney on my left side.
Second one a few years later was from the other side, not as big thankfully. Went to A&E on a Sunday but went home after getting fed up waiting several hours.
Interestingly was told after the scan I had for my first one I had two tubes (ureter?) going into the kidney on my left side.
tedmus said:
I've passed 2 over the years. First one was the worst pain I've ever felt. Started a few days before with constant need to piss and it being browny coloured, got worse over time with me passing blood before I eventually had to go into A&E with the pain. The morphine was bliss that night. Spent 2 nights in hospital (during which some old bloke nicked my trainers), consultant was considering going up there to get it out but ended up being sent home where I passed it (them really as a bit broke off in the way out) at home. Main one was about 5mm and shaped a bit like an ancient arrowhead. Weird sensation as it transits into the old chap.
Second one a few years later was from the other side, not as big thankfully. Went to A&E on a Sunday but went home after getting fed up waiting several hours.
Interestingly was told after the scan I had for my first one I had two tubes (ureter?) going into the kidney on my left side.
Getting older is so much fun.Second one a few years later was from the other side, not as big thankfully. Went to A&E on a Sunday but went home after getting fed up waiting several hours.
Interestingly was told after the scan I had for my first one I had two tubes (ureter?) going into the kidney on my left side.
First one was about 5 days, second 48 hours, third less than 24 hours. However the third one I had different drugs from the ones that the NHS gave me, that time it was Swedish A and E who sorted it very quickly after some time wasted due to a wierdo GP who has a rep for diagnosing everything as prostatitis. 
Once you've had the pain you don't forget it, plus when other doctors later ask you to scale pain from something else in a scale from 1 to 10 it sort of affects your answers.
Once you've had the pain you don't forget it, plus when other doctors later ask you to scale pain from something else in a scale from 1 to 10 it sort of affects your answers.
With the first one it was around day 3 that I went into hospital and was on the morphine that night. The rest of the time I was in I could have been at home really and managed the pain myself as was only on regular pain killers but was sat around waiting for the consultant to either discharge me or decide to go up and get it out.
Kept that one as a souvenir in a little plastic zip bag for a while. The team I was in at work used to have a notice board that various "prizes" used to get pinned onto and it ended up on there. Various things we managed to snaffle on nights out, a feather from an unfortunate pheasant that I hit one day on the way into work, even had a bag of one blokes beard on there. We were an odd bunch.
Kept that one as a souvenir in a little plastic zip bag for a while. The team I was in at work used to have a notice board that various "prizes" used to get pinned onto and it ended up on there. Various things we managed to snaffle on nights out, a feather from an unfortunate pheasant that I hit one day on the way into work, even had a bag of one blokes beard on there. We were an odd bunch.
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