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Kidney Stones

Mickey D, that's bad!!!

I've had two, the second was ythe worst. Had to go to the hospital for that one. They gave me Tylonol in an IV! It worked! Passed it next day, after four attacks. Doc told me to take a couple Advils when I first started feeling anything. Helped alot. The first one was crystaline, looked like crystals off a wall in a cave. Second one was size and shape of a grain of sand. Drink lots of water now. Last one was 10 plus years ago.

My son gets them all the time, some pretty good size. He says he can keep working when he gets them. My daughter had one when she was a young teenager, turned out to be calcium. She would drink milk like most people drink coffee, or whatever. I usually had to buy a gallon of milk everyday, for a family of five, and three of us never touched milk.
 
Ickie, I feel your pain literally, having had stones off an on for the last 17 years. I thought that I was passing one just before Xmas and did the whole flushing out routine. On Xmas I thought that I the stones had passed, mine are very fine like grains of sand, but I was still under the weather. Anyway, last Thursday I went into see the doc about my "flu" and after some tests I got a call telling me that I needed to get to the hospital and check in, turns out it was not the flu but I had been in acute renal failure for the past week. For me there was no stone but I had gotten and infection that wound up almost shutting down my kidneys. I just got home from the hospital, and even going from the bedroom to my office is tiring. I can now say that this New Years Eve was both the worst, hospital stay, and best, I listened to my wife for a change instead of toughing it out which saved my sorry hide.

Take care of yourself, because it can get a lot worse than you think possible and faster than you think.
 
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