I’ve been dealing with the on and off feeling of having a stone in the same kidney that put me in the hospital two years ago to have it broken up with a laser ...it went full blown last Thursday morning so I’m waiting to hear back from my urologist...thankfully I did early voting.

My sincerest, seriously sincerest, sympathies.

I tell my wife that a woman giving birth to a 13 lb baby sideways with no medication is the closest they'll come to knowing the pain of passing a kidney stone. It's way worse for man than a woman.

My 12mm stone was broken up with lithotripsy and I pissed out the fragments exactly 30 days later, but not before those fragments clogged my uritur. It felt like someone stabbing me all the way through with a rusty, jagged, red-hot machete and slowing sawing downwards while simultaneously kicking me in the balls with every beat of my heart. I didn't think it was possible to vomit as far as I did. My nurse told me she gave birth to a 7.5lb baby boy with no medication, and passed a 7mm stone, and the stone hurt worse.

We are an elite club. Kidney stone survivors. You survive kidney stone pain, everything else is a walk in the park.

Sorry, I’ve had several. I don’t drink sweet tea or coke anymore because my body makes the stones from something in dark drinks. The last really bad one I had made me turn green,sweat, uncontrollably shaking and I would d up in the ER for painkillers.

Been there done that a few times.

Horrible.

Good luck sir.

stones,,,,


I think my count is 10 of size,, dozens and dozen s of grains of sand sized ones,


last was the biggest, roughly .125x.100x.175, (measured with a dial caliper),

felt it maybe a day, then pissed it out a few days later, just felt it when it passed the tip,



mine seem to come from one kidney more than the other, but my Uro says I am a producer,

it did help when he scoped my bladder, and they tried to run that scope up to my kidney (hurt like fuk) but the scope must have stretched something cause they don't hurt as long

I feel, or have felt your pain. Three different times in the last 12 years. No fun at all. Get better!

I've had several, all uric acid variety (had some tested) which of course is no worse or better than other varieties.
So this is what I've learned over the years.

Beer is not your friend. God I love beer, but it it's very toxic if you have a propensity for kidney stones and especially elevated uric acid.

Internal organ meats are out. No liver, heart kidney etc. Don't eat them

Red meet too. A little is okay, but don't eat a steak the size of of a toilet seat.

Tart cherry juice helps flush crap. Not your regular sweat ass Cherry juice in the grocery store middle isle. But rather pure tart cherry juice. It's sometimes in the juice isle, but if it's less that $5 for a jug, read the labels.

As long as your kidneys are in relatively good shape, drink water. Lots of water. A gal a day at minimum. Sure, you'll be got to pee a lot but that's the cleansing.

Get a good night's sleep. Even if you need to take something to help with that. I like CBD with Melatonin. Easy sleep, and wake up refreshed. YMMV, but if you're not sleeping at least 4 hours without waking up to pee or toss around you might need some help.

I guess the message is total health is important.

Talk to your doctor about tamsulosin (Flomax). I have calcium oxalate stones so I know how to prevent them. I have had to change my diet but not drastically. Lots of water, low salt less than 2000mg a day, cut back on red meat and foods high in oxalate. Once I feel a stone coming on I take it instead of a pain pill. I also take potassium citrate twice a day which helps with the PH so you don't form stones. Once you find out if you have uric or calcium stones you can start the appropriate treatment. In the meantime drink lots of water.
I have suffered from stones for 26 years. Have not had one for two years with this treatment. Be pro active as much as you can.

Like bonfire, I’m also on potassium citrate to make my urine less acidic—went from 5 to 6.5. That should inhibit crystallization of stones. I was told by my specialist that even though my stones are calcium oxalate, uric acid crystals promote oxalate crystals also.
As far as reducing oxalate is concerned, we found that spinach, chard and the like are highest; nuts are high except for macadamia.
A 24-hour urine test with kidney stone panel helps a lot in deciding on diet restrictions needed.
I have trouble maintaining the strongly recommended 2 liters/quarts of water a day.

Tennessee Valley Urology Center is top notch. Been keeping me alive and removing Mt Rushmore worth of stones since I’ve seen them. They put me on Potassium Citrate and it knocked out 99% of my stones.

My first was a 6mm stone. I thought I was constipated. You can do it!

Holy shitballs Batman. 12mm? That’s not a stone. It’s a fucking Boulder.

I wish you the best my friend. I hope the doc does something that helps.

Hoping you get some relief soon. My dad had one they had to go in and zap twice. It was the size of a nickel or a dime - whichever, it was huge and occasionally chipped off.

Been a producer also. Been under control now for decade. just tiny and sandy pass thru.
Finally this year got lowered to Pot Cit 15Meq x4 daily.

Man I'm sorry to hear that. I've been through at least half a dozen. Those things are brutal.

I had the last kidney stone of the Millenium in Winter Park Hospital. Really destroyed New Year’s Eve fun.

Had about six before; happily, it was the last one this Century.

My wife had a kidney stone about 2-3 weeks ago. Excruciating pain!

My last one,1979, required surgery to remove!
Urologist told me to quit drinking iced tea. Followed his advice and have not had any more since.

I was advised by a family member to try D-Mannose whenever I felt a kidney stone coming on. It is a simple sugar that coats the stone and may help you to pass it.
I,for one, am a believer. One time the pain was so intense I was hanging off the kitchen counter trying to get some kind of relief. Nearly convinced myself to go to the ER. My mother brought some D-Mannose over. I took a dose and waited. Felt a little relief. Took a second dose then went to sit on the toilet. after abit I swear I felt the stone move a bit in the kidney. Then the pain subsided. Thank goodness. But I don't remember passing it. Could be that it was coated enough that I didn't feel it.

Charlie, I wish you well and a small prayer sent your way.