• numbermess@fedia.io
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    29 days ago

    My doctor usually prescribes Oxycodone when I have a stone/stones, but I’m just not an opiate guy. It makes me feel more sweaty and nauseous and despair. There is a prescription NSAID called Ketorlac that works much better for this kind of thing in my opinion. One of the effects of long term use is kidney damage, so you need to take enough but not too much for too long. FYI if you’re looking for something to think about next time you get one.

    I also found a wireless TENS unit called a Hollywog that just sticks to your back. It’s a little plate and doesn’t have any external wires. It hangs on by the electrode pads and you control it with a phone app over Bluetooth. This thing is great to use while your back is winding and wringing and you are stuck in a reloading agony loop. It kind of helps make it possible to focus on something for a minute without being distracted by the pain.

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Nah my kidneys are just fucked actually, they don’t process calcium good so a lot of it just sits around until I piss it out. I take meds but they only help so much

        • flicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          29 days ago

          I’m bummed you’re being downvoted.

          Hi. Human here. I have never had a kidney stone. I have worked in healthcare.

          Some people are absolutely just fucked. It’s just the luck of the draw. I’ve seen it a handful of times; a person’s diet is completely controlled, they do everything right, and they get fucked anyway.

          One person I knew did everything right and had them once a month anyway. I asked him why he was bothering with all the precautions and diet changes and intake rules, and he said, “Because they’re the difference between one a month and three a week.”

          • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            29 days ago

            Yeah the issue I have is genetic and typically presents itself in males around 30 but it started when I was 9. We can’t trace it to anyone in my family though but it probably just skipped a few generations. I still do a low sodium diet but with my diuretics I don’t really need to worry about it too much. Killing my liver but it is what it is yk. It could certainly be worse

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Debates about composition aside, I always picture it more as a factory / processing plant of some kind that has just received a large volume of something they don’t know what to do with. The middle manager keeps saying he’s been telling the CEO they need to figure out what to do with it, but you’re not sure he’s actually been telling him and more keeps coming and he tells you to just start a pile in the middle of the work floor and you’ll deal with it later but by the time you get around to dealing with it the pile is fucking massive and its all stuck together and you try to break it up a little but even those chunks just scrape all the halls on the way out and it sets off a whole bunch of alarm bells and the CEO gets pissed off about all the alarm bells and sometimes even orders an investigation to try and find out wtf is going on and him and the middle manager are all pointing fingers at each other and the little worker nephrons are just like idk man we put it in the pile then tried to take it out when it got too big wtf else where we supposed to do with it?

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Honestly a lot of chronic illnesses are just various parts of your body forming unions and / or going on strike. Stop letting your higher brain functions abuse your working class cells.

  • stoned_ape@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I have gotten kidney stones frequently since 2006

    Cut out tea, nuts, potatoes, chocolate, whole grains, carrots, spinach, and everything else. Keep my sodium around 1500mg/day

    I still form them prolifically

    I had a 2cm stone back in March that they tried blasting and ended up getting chunks of the stone stuck between the stent and the wall of my ureter. After keeping the stent in for 3 months my urologist gave up and another one picked me up. When he went in to laser the stones, he had to laser chunks that had adhered to the stent before he could get it out

    They shockwaved my other side last month and got the newer stent out and had my follow up today and there’s two more little ones on the left side already forming up

    Next step is an endocrinologist

    “Some guys have all the luck” - Rod Stewart

      • stoned_ape@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Usually less than 100g a day for protein. I stay as far away from oxalates as possible I would be surprised if I have 10mg/day. I know 40mg/day is considered low oxalate.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Combine it with meditation and you’ll cure literally everything. If you’re still symptomatic, you’re doing it wrong, but I’ll disappear as soon as you ask me how.

          /s

          Can you tell I have a chronic illness?

    • Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Odd recommendation from a friend’s doctor after said friend passed a stone: drink a beer a day. He said lemons helped (lemonade, lemons in tea) but the beer was 100% from what the doc had seen. And no, I don’t know why or what kind.