Oh fuck, not again!

Recommend product "Uriflow" (on Amazon). Depends on what composite, but when all else failed, a new urologist recommended sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) which alkalinizes the urine and dissolves/passes stones. Dr. prescribed tablets, but they the same as the powder. Info on line, but I underline: this was prescribed to me by a UCLA urologist and it worked.

http://diyremedies.org/baking-soda-for-kidney-stones/

Oh, poor Boner! I feel for you. Talk about misery! I was pushed to drink more and more cranberry juice to try and flush it out... It didn't work and I had to have surgery. To this day I hate cranberry juice.

That will definitely hurt the boner so i have been told.

Thanks for the suggestion, Richard. I'll probably drink a tsp of baking soda. This one isn't as bad as the one last year (3mm). But, ouch! The throbbing in my side hurts like hell, then subsides.

Badass, I'm reciting my favorite scripture from the Book of Mormon--"And IT came to pass"

Haha nice hopefully it passes quickly and easily you are in my thoughts/prayers? Haha Bad to the boner

I feel the hurt from afar bro....my 7mm x 4mm jagged boulder wasn't much fun either.

Oh, Yikes! :(
Get well!

Hell knows no fury like a kidney stone. As a long time sufferer (five lipos, two removed, numerous passed) is send my sympathy. Mine mysteriously (fingers crossed) ended when I moved to Idaho 12 years ago. Perhaps there is something in Utah water.

The most pain I've ever experienced came from two different incidences years apart, both were from kidney stones. I was told by a doctor that short of giving child birth, kidney stones can cause the worst pain that most people will ever experience (especially for the men). The second time, I had my only-ever ride in an ambulance. The pain was so great that I figured it couldn't be kidney stones again. I thought I was going to die and had an ambulance called because I believed that I was within only a few minutes of going unconcious in a public place as I laid on my back, hyper-ventillating short and extremely painful breaths.

At the hospital, they gave me some kind of a shot designed to reduce the swelling of the kidneys. Twenty minutes later, I was walking around with only trace signs of pain if I moved the wrong way. I can't remember the name of that drug but it was like a miracle. Ask the doctors if they have anything like that. They did tell me that it only works on kidney stone pain and reduces swelling of the kidneys when I asked what they gave me for the pain. If you start passing orange or red urine (mixed with blood), you've probably already passed the stone. They sent me home with a prescription for a three day supply of heavy narcotics and I went to work the next day without ever taking the other two pills.



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Long time lurker ... but wanted to contribute. I was diagnosed with stones in 2013. The doc prescribed medication that required me to give blood every 2 weeks to make sure it wasn't destroying my liver. That freaked me out, so I did some research and stumbled across magnesium as a remedy. Since then, I take the Natural Calm Magnesium every night. I've never passed a stone and the aches I used to get are non-existent. Full disclosure--I haven't been back to the doc to verify if I still have stones or even more in there than last time, but as I said, I don't feel the aches like I used to either .. so I have high hopes that the magnesium is helping. Just sharing in case you want to give it a try...

Naw - I know it sucks. I'm sorry, Boner. Get well, soon.

Get well soon Boner

My old man had Kidney stones years ago and no machines to shatter them and only sergury to remove them

I'm just glad I have kidney failure and not stones as the pains unbearable

Stick it out, bro. Not in public, it's a registered lethal weapon.

Mary Baker Eddy, who "rediscovered primitive Christianity and its lots element of healing" (Christian Science) suffered from kidney stones. She woke up in great pain at night, claiming that her religious enemies were metaphysically attacking her by something she called "malicious malpractice." Her house staff would then give her morphine so she could go back to sleep. Eddy, the master healer!!

Martin Luther was also a great sufferer of kidney stones, once supposedly passing something like six in one night during a journey. The "doctors" back then used something like a copper tube to go up into the bladder to help them pass. One can only guess how painful that was.

Yeah, me, too. I've had like eight or more now. One distended the ureter on the right side, and I had to have it "retrieved." But I no longer even feel them if on the right. Sometimes, the first indication is during urination, when there is a *plink!* as a stone flies against the porcelain. The down side is that the ureter remains damaged for life.

Bet you don't have a boner today! 'Rock of ages, cleft for me...' Had one while at WhyBU in the 70's. Student health center. I'd rather try to pull my top lip over my head instead. As my Mom is famous for saying, 'this too, shall pass.'