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Let me say this, do everything you can diet wise to avoid ever getting a kidney stone. It's hands down the most painful thing I've ever experienced.
I have a pretty severe calcium deficiency, it was from having my Thyroid removed. As such I take allot (and I mean allot) of calcium supplements.
Anyway, last night I woke up in pain around 1am, it felt like pretty bad wind at first on my left side. Had a bath and some warm water... Shortly after that I was in absolute agony, curled up in a ball in the corner of a room for 2 hours. Wife came in and found me in a complete mess, rang for ambulance (weve just had a 2nd child a few days earlier, so not a great situation and she didn't know whether my appendix had burst).
Paramedics were great, they wanted to give me morphine as i wasn't making much sense. Steaming with sweat due to the pain. I don't think I've ever had pain causing me lose such a grip on reality and I've been through two pretty painful surgeries before...
So they get my cannular sorted and just before they were about to pump me full of morphine the pain went... Not completely but more discomfort. Still spent night in hospital, CT confirmed a 4.7mm kidney stone and likely the pain was it working it's way through as its basically down by bladder now. Gotta keep an eye that it completely passes or go back in.
I thought I'd share this. I never knew a kidney stone could own you this hard. Pain is mostly gone, still got nausea and feels like a boxer has pummeled my side. |
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