My first Trip to the Urologist - WOW!!!

My 1st trip to my Urologist wasn't really what I was expecting.

1st off my dad's Urologist was on vacation and he had a man hater, woman Urologist filling in for him. Well this really made me nervous, the tone of voice she used and the questions she was asking me really didn't make me feel like I had a kidney stone at all. She had me convinced that I had contracted an STD of some sort from some dirty hooker that I picked up along the way some where, I thought for sure that I must have slept walked down to the local hoe stroll and caught something. So instead of sending me to the X-ray room to take a shot of my kidneys she decided to run some STD test on me first. Oh what fun!!!

If you have ever had this mind numbing experience please bear with me if not hold on because here we go.

This devil of a Urologist thought it would be better for me if she laid me down on a cold ass doctor's table and run some "special" test on me and my junk. Now I have have no clue what is going on; she tells me to drop my pants, and she is checking everything out and then the unthinkable happens. She stuck a (what seemed to be) full size Q-tip up my pee hole... that is right straight up it no lube of any kind just dry cotton ripping through me. In my unprofessional opinion nothing I mean nothing should ever go up that hole... EVER!

Now picture a 18 year old male screaming like a 7 year old girl that just fell off her bike and cut her knee. You now have the visual of me laying on that table with tears in my eyes wonder how some evil Woman could do this such a thing to me and for no reason; no reason at all. Then she went on her marry little way all happy and in a good mood, not feeling like she just violated me or anything, just as happy as she could be.

She comes back into my room and tells me to got to the X-Ray room just in case there is a Kidney Stone... Low-and-behold; sure enough there is the first Kidney Stone of my collection.

Thanks for nothing Doc, that was the last time I have ever saw her but I will remember her name for the rest of my life.

Scott Kelsey

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The First Kidney stone is the worst Kidney Stone

My first kidney stone was my worst Kidney Stone. You have NO clue what is going on in your body and what kind of Pain is going to come next...

I remember I was 18 years old and my parents came to visit me in college, we were all driving back from dinner and I felt like I had to pee, not like a normal feeling of a full bladder but like a burning / internal itching feeling, one that I have never experienced every before. (If you have had a Kidney Stone or have one right now, I'm sure you know what I mean). I remember I could not sit still the whole ride home then we I did get home the pain in my kidneys was so bad a laid on my bedroom floor curled up in the fetus position for a few hours. Luckily my dad "The King of Kidney Stones" was there to walk me though it. Laughing the whole time.

My first Kidney Stone was the must uncomfortable feeling that you could think of, I could never get comfortable nor could I sit still for most of the time I had it. I remember pacing up and down the Urologist waiting room because there is no way I could sit in one of the small thinly cushioned doctor's office chairs. I'm sure everyone in there thought I was on something the way I paced and grunted to myself every time a sharp pain would shoot through my lower back. Finally they called me in.

My Secerets to Passing a Kidney Stone

Everyone has their own way of doing things;
I have my own way of Passing Kidney Stones.


Now I'm not saying this will work for you but, it works for me.

Once the unbearable pain begins to pierce it's way through my kidneys I know I have one of two choices to make, either run to the fridge and start pounding back some beers (which in fact has been recommended to me by my Urologist and is a wonderful idea) or Drive to the store and buy some Arizona Green Tea. Not the 99 cent tall boy I'm talking about 1 gallon jug; most of the time I buy two.

For some strange reason if I drink this green tea at room temperature then I seem to pass my stone within a day or two, depending on the size of the stone. I sit down a my desk or on the couch with a glass and the bottle of Arizona Green Tea and start drinking. This is all I will drink for the rest of the day and into the next day. I try to finish the first gallon within a couple of hours, YES that is a lot of fluids but once you start peeing you will understand why. Once you break the seal... It's on! You will be going to the bathroom every 15-20 minutes, I always feel like I pee'd out 5 gallons... One gallon in 5 gallons out.

Basically what you are doing is flushing your system out completely, so if there is a stone that is small enough to pass chances are it will come out. And when that happens you will feel it!


Good Luck and happy passing!
Scott

Kidney Stone with NO Back Pain

Sometimes my Kidneys NEVER hurt when I have a Kidney Stone...


I have passed a few stones where I didn't have any kidney pain at all... just pressure in my kahunas. I seam to pass this type of Kidney Stone fairly quickly... well within a day or two. It is a different kind of pain, you wake up in the middle of the night and you feel as if someone clamped a pair of vise grips to one of your Kahunas and you are unable to unclamp this torture devise(not the best feeling in the world).


The first time this happened to my I freaked out, thinking maybe I had cancer or something; my urine was stream of pure blood, one of my boys were swollen and tender to the touch, I knew it was the end of the road for me or at least for my... well you know.


I started to panic and decided to call my dad (the King of Kidney Stones) to see if it was a hernia or something along those lines. I know he has had them before as well and figured he would know what to do. He just laughed and said I think you got another kidney stone, apparently this was not an uncommon kidney stone symptom for the seasoned vet. By the end of our phone conversation the stress of having cancer was lifted and sure enough a few hours later here it comes the newest addition to my family of kidney stones.


"Into the jar you go!"

What a relief that was, mentally and physically.


Thanks for reading,
Scott
AKA - The Prince of Kidney Stones

Kidney Stone Pain - How Can I tell If I have a Kidney Stone

How to tell if I have a Kidney Stone...

It all starts with an unbearable lower back pain, but only on one side.

The pain is a little bit higher than your hip and it feels like someone stabbed you with a rusty Buck knife and keeps twisting it inside your body. This pain will come and go in surges, it sends painful shock waves threw your lower torso for an hour for an hour or two before it goes away, I once had an episode last the whole night, so don't be alarmed if it doesn't go away for awhile. Once it is gone you feel so relieved but more than likely it WILL return, sometimes it's gone for a month or two before it shows it's evil face again; but most of the time it will return within the hour.

The pain is like no other, for some unknown reason the pain is never the same. Sometime it hurts so bad it drops me to my knees, where I will stay until I am able to get to my bottle of pain killers. A lady at my work had one about two years ago and she layed curled up under her desk for an hour. Other times I have to walk, this is when I like to revert back to my childhood when I would get hurt and my father would tell me to "get up and walk it off". So I pace back and forth until the pain is exhausted the whole time I keep saying to myself "walk it off, just walk it off" then the pain eases and you can relax for a minute or two.