Kidney Stones

[edscdk]

He went in for kidney stone pain and they found cancer on a scan?

Found kidney stones causing the pain and a large cancer with no symptoms

 

[MissChief]

My dad is in A+E with suspected kidney stones on one side.
I hope not too serious.
He had them before and ignored my advice not to pile salt on his food but he never listens.

I was never a big salt person, rarely adding it to my food, but I was a very big fizzy juice drinker, easily 1-1.5L of the stuff at work and often another can or two at home. After my stones I stopped the fizzy juice completely for probably 9 months or so and have slowly brought the occasional Fanta or Lemonade when eating out but I have kept it to 1 glass and then switched back to water after and tried to at least match the juice intake with the same of water. Thankfully I've had no reoccurrence for 4-5 years now but my water intake is probably about 2 litres a day, simply because I do NOT want another one. I see people at work thinking nothing of polishing off 2-3 500ml cans of Monster daily and I weep for their futures.

 

[marc2003]

I've lost count of the times I've had kidney stones. First time I was about 13 and I'm late 40s now.

In fact I must be overdue for it to happen again. I remember the exact time I had the last lot - I had lithotripsy sessions booked just as we went in to lockdown 2020.

 

[tenofspades]

 

[Bassmansam]

No pain for over a week and then yesterday it came back really bad. Pain meds took along time to kick in and i was in agony and almost in tears for a while last night and was also awake in pain every other hour through the night. Thank god i work from home i told my boss and said id start working a at 11ish so i could get some sleep. Pain has been minimal today.

Im due to go to Portugal in August but think its a bad idea, has anyone traveled while having intermittent pain?

 

[dave28]

kidney stones near on killed my dad recently due to complications with infections that multiple antibiotics failed to clear up.
And covid was spreading in the wards.
He was in hospital for almost a full week and can barely walk.

 

[Mercurial]

Recently I've had PCNL for a 2cm stone (just leaving one 4mm in the other kidney, i'd passed 2x <5mm previously. Not fun), used PMI as the NHS wait was just ridiculous in my area (it was identified 18 months ago and I was not as yet on any type of list, just monitoring). What amazed me is how much my aches and pains have improved since removal. A lot of pain and constant discomfort i'd put down to age or other conditions (bad back/groin aches when moving/lifting or just sitting etc) seem to now have disappeared or are much improved. Nasty horrible things.

 

[Drangueos]

I've passed at least 1 stone per year in the last 35 years, in 2017 I had surgery to remove more than 20 stones, as one stone that was 1cm got stuck in the ureter (ureter is the tube that transports urine from the kidney to the bladder)
This year I already passed 3 stones, had 2 CT scans and found out I have more than 15 stones again, the "good" side is that they are less than 6mm.

Genetics contributes to kidney stones and I'm soooooo "lucky" that both my parent have them, so I got from both sides