Cocoa and Chocolate milk are extremely high in Oxalate which stones are made of. Im sitting here with my list of whats high, moderate and low the only caffeine drink is instant tea.
Mine was technically pop that was the source, but since i cut out pop I also cut out caffeine. So while yes, it didn't necessarily give me the stones, my reaction to caffeine is bad because I have it so rarely anymore.
I drink way too much coffee, and have drank more since my last kidney stone by far. Big key is water, water, water. And avoiding stupid sugary drinks like sodas. But water. I drink at least a gallon a day, and haven't had one in probably 15 years? First one I was 18 years old. Shit sucks! 3 more after that.
Yeah, I switched to water/lemonade/limeade after that. Been 6 years since I first found out and passed it 2+ years later. I'm hoping to never have another one, that son of a bitch as hell. great way to lose weight though.
2 years to pass it? Damn. Like I said, I had 4, first 3 I passed, last one had to have surgery. Miserable. Lithotripsy to go up and blast the stone to break it up smaller so it will actually pass from kidney. Then what was basically a small piano wire hanging out for 2 weeks or so.
I'm sure I mentioned it on here before, it was a big summabish too. Like 6mm x 11mm. Thank GOD the thing was mostly covered in a mucus like substance, as those things are not smooth. For those who have never had one, imagine passing a grape nut but the size of your pinky fingernail.
My brain is thinking quicker than my hands. I'm totally missing words in the posts I'm typing. Like the one above I missed "nuts" and another word. Totally changed the context of my post. I must be tired. Or took too many hits to the head playing soccer as a kid.
yeah that's miserable. I'm 68 but lucky so far and haven't had one. My brother has had 3; two he passed although he said the said the 2nd one was extremely painful to pass. He had the litho-thingy surgery for the 3rd. That was about 4 years ago and he's still complaining about that procedure and the recovery...says he'll shoot himself if he gets another stone.
For me, it initially started with pissing cranberry juice, and thinking I had bruised my back badly (I had a bad fall the day before...my theory is I dislodged it). Then I had what felt like a horrific stomach flu one day went to the urgency and found out. Basically missed a week+ of work. Whenever the pain would come on, it would come on like a wave shooting up from my waste up to my lungs. Almost like someone was just filling up a cup of water, and you can see the water moving up the glass...that's what it seemed like. It would just come up on my real quick, and at random times, and I would go from being a functional person of society to being in so much pain that I could barely walk. There were a few times when I thought "please shoot me". Luckily for me, it would usually only last a day. But I did have an issue on a plane once. That was a miserable 15 hour flight. That was mostly caused by my own stupidity though. I needed to hydrate more...lesson learned. Now if I ever have that feeling, I chug some water and it subsides. That's how I know I will eventually have another one. :/ I do have a simple test to tell though. I inhale deeply, hold my breath, and if my lower/mid back hurts (kidneys are located next to the lungs), I know I'm fucked. if not, I know it's mostly just my old back injury (or in my head).
My first felt like I got stabbed in the back. And then was routinely getting stabbed in the back. It was excruciating pain, worse than anything I've ever felt, and hope to ever feel. The sharpest of sharp pains on the lower right side of the back. Didn't go away until the morphine kicked in. It's because I was actually in the process of passing it from the kidney to the bladder, which is the worst part. The others, I sensed the initial hit of that pain, and hightailed it to the ER.
this is TMI, but you now the area where your leg and um, friendly bits meet? It always felt like someone was running a hot poker right there to me. At the time I had mine, my insurances idea of offering help was "here, take some codine" (which didn't work) and once that was over "take some Advil"...and it will pass in '2 weeks usually'.
I will say, though, I grew to really really like cranberry juice. For a while I was drinking that like it was going out of style (never quite understood that phrase btw). And when I noticed that every time I drank cranberry juice I became more and more thirsty, I found out that's kind of a side effect of cranberry juice. D'oh.
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I passed four of the little monsters from hell. The first hurt so bad that I made my wife pull over on the side of the road on our way to the emergency room so I could puke. The next three I passed all by myself and passed all four with no pain killer. Perhaps the worst pain I've ever undergone and I've endured some real pain several times in my life. Dear Lord, I hope I don't go out with pain like that.
I’ve never had kidney stones and hope I never will. My daughter-in-law had stones last month and they went up through her urethra and ureters and zapped them with a laser to break them up. I’d never heard of that before, but it worked well for her.
What in god's name is happening to this place? I just reported the past 25 posts. you guys just sharing stories about pissing out rocks...... I'm so confused.
A cousin of mine was pregnant when she had hers. Told me (this was 30+ years ago) she'd rather give birth again.
