Kidney Stones and Weight Gain

Can being over weight cause kidneys stones... The answers is YES!

The results of the study appear in the Jan. 26 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association

• Men weighing more than 220 pounds had a 44% higher risk of kidney stones compared with
men who weighed less than 150 pounds. (I would have to cut my leg off to be under 150lbs)

• Women (aged 34-59) who weighed more than 220 pounds had an 89% higher risk of kidney stones compared with those weighing less than 150 pounds. Younger women in this
higher weight category had a 92% higher risk.

• Men who gained more than 35 pounds since age 21 had a 39% higher risk of kidney stones
compared with men whose weight did not change.

• Women who gained a similar amount since age 21 had a 70% higher risk of developing
kidney stones, and younger women had an 82% higher risk.


In addition, researchers found having a higher BMI or larger waist size was also associated with a higher risk of kidney stones.

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NOoooooo!

Today I am feeling like I have a stone brewing inside me. I have been hitting the water pretty hard for the past few hours hoping to get rid of this thing pretty quick. It is just a sharp pain in my lower back that creeps around to my belly button; the normal pain I get when I have a kidney stone.

I hope it is nothing but I will keep you posted.

PS. Dad has already passed 3 stones this year and it is only the 2nd week of february.

Scott Kelsey

Doctors if you would like to run test on me for studies please let me know. I will be your case study. thanks

Kidney Stone Compitition - 2010

Well I am sad to say that I lost this years battle of the kidney stones. My dad informed me this morning that he passed the first "Kelsey Kidney Stone of the year". I thought for sure I was going to win this year because dad passed a stone last week, leaving me to think that he done for a while... But NOooo the Kidney Stone King comes through again.

I woke up a few days ago with a pain that made me think that I had a kidney Stone brewing inside me but I haven't had any more pain since then. So either it was a false alarm or a ticking time bomb waiting to explode with pain. Either way I am not going to be the champ this year, but maybe just maybe I can still win the biggest one (I hope not).

If you ever want to buy a kidney stone give us a call we grow 'em dollar weeks.


Thanks for Reading

Scott Kelsey
aka The Prince of Kidney Stone


kidney stones case study

Grandmother just got her first Kidney Stone.

Well my wife's grandmother "Mimi" turned 80 this year and just her luck she grew a kidney stone.  So I spend the whole afternoon at the ER with her.  She had the same signs of having a kidney stone, side pain or as the Dr. kept saying today "Flank Pain" and vomiting.  She awoke this morning to a shooting pain in her left side and had to call a neighbor a few hours later to take her to the ER.  My wife and I were on vacation and of course our cell phones were dead because we were Roaming all weekend.  But as soon as we plugged them in and was able to turn them back on they started blowing up with messages.

We just got home and Mimi is doing fine, they gave here to much Liquid which made her lungs fill up with liquid so the had to admit her to the ICU.  Tomorrow morning they plan on Retrieving the Kidney Stone with the basket (I have not had this procedure done to date, but I'm sure I will one day).  I feel you all in tomorrow after the surgery.

Day One of Kidney Stone #23

Today as I am working on passing Kidney Stone Number 23.

As I sit here at work with the wonderful pain of having a Kidney Stone I couldn't help but log onto my blog and tell you all about it. I am a lunch sitting in my cubicle wonder how much pain I can go though with out telling these people that I have a kidney stone. I have the pressure build up that I normally have when I am about to pass the stone, so I'm thinking that this one will not to long to pass. I am drinking my Green Tea and hoping not to experience too much pain.

I hope I do not jinx myself be writing about it. This is my first play-by-play battle with the blog. Hopefully I will be uploading a new photo of my new stone by the end of the day.

Strainer in hand as I slowly walk to the bathroom.

A Family that gets (kidney) stoned together...

A Family that gets (kidney) stoned together; stays together.

It's funny how every time I tell someone that I "produce" kidney stones they seems to curl up in a ball and say "I've never had one but I hear they hurt". The I tell them the number of kidney stones that I have had and the FREAK OUT! Everyone knows someone who has passed a kidney stone but only our friends know a family that passes so many.

I love my dad and cannot wait to share some of his stories with all of you! In a sick way we have a bond that no one else has. We call each other in pain everytime we have one, sometimes gasping for air because the pain is so intense. Always laughing and joking with each other to get one another through the pain.

Kidney Stones are our life!

Scott Kelsey

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.

Attention Doctors and Urologist

Every so often when I go pee I feel as if I pass a kidney stone that I didn't know I had. My dad says the same thing, so who really knows how many stones we pass in a year. We are what I like to call "kidney stone farmers" except no one wants to buy our final product. If there was ever a study or if there ever there is every a study in the works, I'm sure my father and I would get the job.


**Attention Doctors and Urologist around the world. If you want to have two case studies I know the two specimens for the job.

Scott Kelsey

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please
feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.

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

If you have any questions or comments about Kidney Stones please
feel free to leave me a comment I will get back to you.

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.