Karyn, my niece just had that procedure done a week ago.
Don't know how it was done, however, she was home in two days and is doing just fine.

Karyn I have not, but will be happy to come hold your hand :)

I know a guy who passed kidney stones. I will spare you the gruesome details of his account.

good luck, for what it's worth...

Ria

Thanks Edna. lol Ria I've been passing small stones for a couple months (unknown to me at the time) but there's a big one that won't pass and it's causing an intermittent kidney obstruction, not to mention severe pain.
Karyn

Karyn Im so sorry your having such pain, my daughter-in-laws Dad went through the same thing and they say it is
really painful, I wish I had a natural cure to pass along
but am drawing a blank on this one, I hope you get some
relief soon.
Karen

Hi Karyn! A friend of mine had one of these procedures done a few years ago. I havent heard from her in awhile ,but the last time I did hear from her,it did work and she was pain free. She had an obstruction in her kidney also. I really feel for you,because I do know she was in a huge amount of pain,and I hope that this will be behind you soon! Good Luck and Best Wishes! :)

Karyn, I'm so sorry you're going through this! Two of my uncles had it done and it worked out,but I don't know the particulars. My hubby had small ones, but so painful for him!Get better soon!
Theresa

Karyn: Sorry you are having so much discomfort. Hope all will soon be well. I am holding you in my heart and prayers. Gloria

Sorry to hear that Karyn..I know that's very painful.
However you get it removed, I am sure you will be fine and everything will work out well. Don't be nervous..can't be worse than childbirth right? :)
I wish I could give you some info, but everyone I know that had them, passed them.
DH has kidney probs, & he basically only has 1/2 a kidney. He gets blockages (that doesnt sound right lol) and I see the agony he goes through. When it gets really painful try taking a nice hot bath.
I hope yours gets taken care of quickly.
I'll be thinkin of ya! ((hugs))
Daniella

jeeeesus karyn... hope you get that taken care of and recover quickly :\ I hate hearing about suffering.

Kayrn. I hope you don't have to go through so much pain it really sounds painful. I hope you get that taken care of soon. plantlover49

Hopefully this will all be over next week. The lithotripsy is scheduled on Tuesday and hopefully it will work. If not then they'll do the cysto 2 weeks later. It had better work. Daniella I've heard from friends that have passed stones that it's more painful then chilbirth. I have 3 kids but they were all scheduled c-sections so I've never been in labor, thank God! lol C-sections were a breeze. I checked myself out of the hospital AMA 24 hours after my second child. The only reason I stayed for the full week after my youngest is because he was in the NICU and I wanted to stay close-by.
Karyn

O Karyn, I hope it's a one shot deal.
I can't imagine anything being worse than labor. I had 3 c-sec's also, and same with me, was out real fast and I was
shopping the same day. 3rd was worst for me, but I was shopping the 2nd day out & visiting my cousin at another hosp who had just had a baby.
I was in labor for the first kid though..2 1/2 days of induced hell..wound up emerg c-sec, and I took that option every time after, lol.
Don't worry bout it too much..Tuesday will come and it'll be over before ya know it, and you will be fine! I'll be thinkin of ya all day Tues hon..waitin to hear it was a success! Hey, thank god you have a nanny for the kids right? lol
Daniella

Karyn - I'm so sorry. A friend at work is suffering that. And she is taking vicodin for the back pain while it moves.

I am so sorry that you're in such pain. I hope they can remedy that quickly for you.

Daniella I wish that I still had a nanny. We had a live in for 8 years and had to let her go a year after I stopped working. By then both my older kids were in school full time and she was esentially a live in housekeeper by then. It was just too expensive since I was no longer working. We had not planned on Kyle. He came 8 years after the first two. I'd love to have full time live-in help again but that's not happening unless I decide to go back to work and I have no intentions of doing anything besides volunteer work anymore. I'll get to screw Kyle up all by myself! lol
Karyn

Too funny Karyn!
Hope all goes well for you on Tuesday. You'll be in my thoughts. Let us know how it goes. Good luck!
Theresa

Lol Karyn, join the club. You may have to go back to making some money, or you may wind up cleaning your own toilets, LMAO!
I don't wanna go back back to work either, I haven't worked a real job since I was 18. But when the youngest goes to school full time I may get a part time job just so I have some money for myself.
Daniella

I love volunteer work and couldn't see myself working for someone again. I spent 6 years in college and was working in my chosen field for about 18 years. That was enough for me. Besides that I've allowed all my licenses to expire.
Karyn

Karyn: I had a large stone that I couldn't pass. They couldn't do the lithotripsy because it was too close to my kidney, so they scheduled surgery. They told me that afterwards I would have a stint and that it would be very uncomfortable for me until they could remove the stint. Well I know when a doctor says uncomfortable that = pain so I got very scared. My surgery was planned for a Monday. On the advice of an 'old-timer' who had experience with stones, I bought an 8 pack of Miller Ponys, took my Tylox and started chugging those beers. Needless to say I was feeling no pain and don't remember much about that nite. LOL. Monday morning in the OR they did another xray and the stone was GONE. I had passed it and didn't even know it. I asked my Dr. later why didn't he just recommend beer for the stones and he replied that his kids needed new clothes. LOL. My advice: buy beer, take a pain pill, get hubby to watch the kids and pass that stone! Don't forget to use your strainer like I did.

Good luck to you. I'll be checking to see how things are going.

Sounds like the best advice I heard anyone give you yet Karyn, lol. Go get snockered and even if you don't pass the stone you won't care for a while, lol. Hopefully the lithotripsy will work. I asked a friend that had it done and she said it worked great and she has had no more problems. She said it didn't hurt either so I wish you a good experience.

I can't believe this. My surgery is going to be canceled because I developed an upper respritory infection and am running a low grade fever. This is such BS! The damn kids spreading their germs throughout the house and infecting everyone they come in contact with. All 3 of them have had the cold and I really didn't think I was going to catch it. They've been passing it around for 3 weeks and I was clear until yesterday. I was never sick until my kids started preschool and came into contact with all those other reservoirs of germs (kids)!!!!!!
Karyn

I'm so sorry Karyn. Are they going to jump you on some medicine so they can reschedule you?

I heard a friend once describe preschools and kindergartens as "petri dishes" because every bug known to mankind comes home with the kids and everyone is always sick.

Can they reschedule you pretty quickly?

I'm hoping it can be rescheduled for next week. There's no medicine for the cold, it's a virus and has to run it's course, besides that I'm already on a broad spectrum antibiotic for the kidney problem. This really sucks!
Karyn

That sux, I'm sorry!! I agree bout the kids and school. Can't tell you how many times DH & I thought about home schooling just because of how often the kids get sick from other kids at school, then they bring it home and share it with everyone else. Really pisses me off how people send their kids to school sick and they don't give a crap about other people's kids getting sick, just because they don't wanna take care of a sick kid, or cuz they dont wanna take a day off of work. I know mothers who stay at home, and send the kids to school sick just cuz they dont wanna deal with it. Total BS!!
OK so it looks like you are gonna have to start drinking, and hope to pass it that way. I'd give it a try if I were you.
Daniella

Daniella this stone is over 2 cm. It's impossible to pass even if I drank an ocean of water. If it were that easy I'd have started drinking a long time ago (and it might not have been water)! lol
Karyn

o ugh..sorry. Hope you kick that virus real fast and they can get that thing outta ya!
Daniella

Hope you get to reschedule it soon Karyn. It sucks to be sick. I hope I don't catch something tomorrow at the hospital while I am waiting on hubby to have his outpatient thing done. It never fails something coughing and sneezing will sit right beside me every time, lol.

Kristy I hope your DH's procedure goes well and some nasty infected person doesn't sit near you in the waiting area. The hospital and Drs office are the best places to pick something up. I hate taking the kids in for their annual well visits, especially the little one who touches everything. The older ones know it's a pit of pestilence and don't touch anything.
Karyn

Lol, I lucked up and nobody sat near me but I couldn't leave and go sneak off to the nursery like I hoped and my laptop wouldn't pick up a signal so I sat there in the hard @%^^& chair all morning. He did fine though and is not scared now to go have some other problems he is having checked out so it was all worth it.

I'm glad he survived his scope. Did he get his results yet? I hope everything is normal. That test is one of the reasons that I've been dealing with the kidney stones for such a long time. I honestly thought it was an intestinal problem and refused to go to the dr because I didn't want a colonoscopy. Stupid I know but I just didn't want that particular test. The CT was much better, even if I had to drink a 1/2 gallon of gastrographin. lol I hope the rest of his tests go as well.
Karyn