Kidney stones....?!
Question: i have a 5mg kidney stone...how do you take the edge off of it? who else has had or has a kidney stone...i just want to know I am not alone do you remember how big yours was or is? how are you dealing with the pain how would you deal with the pain with out meds???
thanks
Answers: i have a 5mg kidney stone...how do you take the edge off of it? who else has had or has a kidney stone...i just want to know I am not alone do you remember how big yours was or is? how are you dealing with the pain how would you deal with the pain with out meds???
thanks
I also have had kidney stone,,, oct o7 and they still havent passed, absolute agony.... ive to go back to see consultant on 29th of this month to see that their willing to do about it.. they gave me tablets to open my uretha so that passing them wouldnt be as painful but their still there..sorry i cant give anymore advice,, the only thing that helped me was morphine, as i was admitted to hosp with them and also a tablet they put up your backside..(sorry if tmi)
everyday i see patients in our ER with severe back pain caused by kidney stone, so don't worry you are not alone.
try to drink a lot of water ( 2-4) liters per day, you should improve, take care
http://health.yahoo.com/urinary-overview...
Medications
Medicine you can buy without a prescription, such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), may relieve your pain. Your doctor can give you stronger pain medicine if needed. NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen (such as Motrin and Advil), and ketoprofen.
If you get more kidney stones despite drinking more fluids and making changes to your diet, your doctor may give you medicine to help dissolve your stones or to prevent new ones from forming. You may also receive prescription medicine if you have a disease that increases your risk of forming kidney stones. Which medicine you take depends on the type of stones you have.
Medication Choices
Medicine to prevent calcium stones
About 80% of people who have kidney stones have calcium stones. 2
Thiazides (such as hydrochlorothiazide, chlorthalidone) and potassium citrate (Urocit-K) are commonly used to prevent calcium stones.
Orthophosphate (Neutra-Phos) and cellulose phosphate (Calcibind) are sometimes used. They have more side effects than thiazides or potassium citrate.
Calcium carbonate or citrate (Tums, Citracal) and cholestyramine (Questran) may be used to prevent calcium stones if you have high levels of oxalate in your urine.
Medicine to prevent uric acid stones
About 10% of kidney stones are made of uric acid, a waste product that normally exits the body in the urine. 2
Potassium citrate (Urocit-K) and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) prevent the urine from becoming too acidic, which helps prevent uric acid stones.
Allopurinol (Lopurin, Zyloprim) makes it more difficult for your body to make uric acid.
Medicine to prevent cystine stones
Less than 1% of kidney stones are made of a chemical called cystine. 2 Cystine stones are more likely to occur in families with a disease that results in too much cystine in the urine (cystinuria).
Penicillamine (Cuprimine, Depen), tiopronin (Thiola), and captopril (Capoten) all help keep cystine dissolved in the urine, which makes cystine-type kidney stones less likely to form.
Potassium citrate (Urocit-K) prevents the urine from becoming too acidic, which helps prevent cystine kidney stones from forming.
Medicine to prevent struvite stones
About 10% to 15% of kidney stones are struvite stones. 2 They can also be called infection stones if they occur with kidney or urinary tract infections (UTIs). These types of kidney stones sometimes are also called staghorn calculi if they grow large enough.
Urease inhibitors (Lithostat) are rarely used because of their side effects and are usually only a treatment method if stone removal procedures cannot be used or fail to remove the stone
What To Think About
If you have uric acid stones or cystine stones and are taking medicine to prevent more stones from forming, you will usually have to continue taking that medicine for the rest of your life.
Some struvite stones (staghorn calculi) form because of frequent kidney infections. You will usually need antibiotics and surgery to cure the infection and help prevent new stones from forming.
Without pain meds? Wow, you are tough. I would take a hot pack and drink plenty of fluid.
If the stone is small and not to be in both kidney, we can try to remove from our body. Contact your doctor to remove it.
Lithotripsey. The health care provider will use x-ray or ultrasound images to see where the stones are. High-energy shock waves, also called sound waves, pass through your body to the area on the kidney stones. You may feel a tapping sensation when this starts. The waves break the stones into tiny pieces. It is easier for smaller pieces to pass out of the body during urination.
The procedure generally takes from 45 minutes to 1 hour.
I had it done for extensive calcification of my rotator cuff, shoulder, two session and I was cured! Good Luck