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| Thread ID: 78360 | 2007-04-12 17:06:00 | Kidney Stones..WAY OT! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 540477 | 2007-04-13 06:04:00 | Samuel Pepys had an operation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys#Disease_of_the_stone) to remove one. Not a very nice experience for him. No anaesthetics in the 17th century. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 540478 | 2007-04-13 09:31:00 | These days I thought an ultrasonic beam was used to "hammer"/shatter them into smaller pieces that can be passed more easily.Ask your Doc about it, Joe. Remember he lives in the US of A. The ultrasonic technique will probably take 5 minutes... and cost $50,000 ! |
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| 540479 | 2007-04-14 04:40:00 | Well . . just now back from the emergency room at the local hospital . . . . and we got a few shocks in 10 hours of waiting . The kidney stone is about 40% passed thru the ureter, the tube between the kidney and the bladder . . . and it is progressing quite nicely . My wife LIKES Vicadin now . . . (hydrocodone bitartrate, an artificial codeine) pain killer . She never even took aspirin before . She has an extremely low red cell count . . . . normal is around 14 to 15, her's is 7 . 8 . We can fix that . . but the doc wanted to lock her in a room and get to find where the blood was going . He told her she was gonna die any minute . He was wrong . . people live with seriously lower counts than that . . and this was not a sudden drop, so we are on a 48 hour watch and wait regime . She is also low on sodium . But we are home . . she on drugs . . . me wanting some too or at least some smooth scotch and a water side, neat, no ice . . . . . single-malted from an unknown glen somewhere in Scotland . . . . and we are eating pizza together . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 540480 | 2007-04-14 05:06:00 | My sympathies to your wife SurferJoe - my 6mm stone [ seen on plain CT scan] took 8 days to pass . Most stones are calcium based and it is worth collecting urine [ I used a washed out old white ice-cream container ] to see if the stone passes - some come out whole - others fragment into ground peppercorn or smaller bits . These can be sent to the lab and analysed which will help the Dos's advise how to avoid a recurrence . Most of the time people who form stones need to drink LOTS of water - 1 -2 litres or more each day unless there's some other medical reason for them not to do so. Strong painkillers are essential and lemon juice specifically has been found useful . I was also given a drug called Flomax which apparently relaxes the ureter and helps the stone to pass . Water and lots of lemon juice - hope that's of some help | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 540481 | 2007-04-14 05:36:00 | Wow..and I have some Flomax for my BPH too...the doc didn't even say anything about that...ty. Right now my wife doesn't really care how long it takes..as long as the Vicadin holds out. The doc wanted to give her a script for it, but I told him I already have more than his pharmacy does. He gave her the script anyway to make it legal for her to carry them. |
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