My big strong husband was just taken down...

[dizneydiva2005]

Just reading your post makes me wanna puke! I've had like 8 or 9 stones over the years. Last year I had 4 in the matter of weeks. In Oct. I had to have surgery again to remove one. I am one of those types of people who just go on with life when I have a stone. So when I tell my husband it's time to go to the ER- he knows I'm at the end of my rope.

Hope your hubby is feeling better. I cringe at the thought of what he is/went through. OMG!! I gotta go think happy thoughts. Cause I never know when one will strike again....

 

[Buckalew11]

First one DH had, he was in the floor at the firehall in the middle of the night puking before going to the ER. He's had many since and last time he had one he was taking a physical for work. Couldn't take anything for pain because it'd show up in the testing. I thought it'd be OK if he told them he was taking it and what for but nope, not OK.
He's worked through many of them since.

His best friend has had 90+ kidney stones, I kid you not. Terrible. But he also goes to work now and life goes on.
I hope I never, ever have one.

 

[emer95]

First one DH had, he was in the floor at the firehall in the middle of the night puking before going to the ER. He's had many since and last time he had one he was taking a physical for work. Couldn't take anything for pain because it'd show up in the testing. I thought it'd be OK if he told them he was taking it and what for but nope, not OK.
He's worked through many of them since.

His best friend has had 90+ kidney stones, I kid you not. Terrible. But he also goes to work now and life goes on.
I hope I never, ever have one.

WHAT?!?!?
I am scared silly just reading that. My husband is the toughest person I've ever met, but there is NO, NO way on earth he could have gone to work, or driven his car, or functioned in any way with the pain he was in. He was writhing and thrashing in agony- it was horrendous to witness and I ended up breaking down in tears while registering him in the waiting room. Granted, I didn't know what was wrong with him at that point and I was thoroughly freaked out.

The amazing thing is how completely FINE he is now. All day I've wanted him to rest and drink water, and all he wants to do is fold laundry and do dishes. Which is hilarious, because on any other day I'd be dying for him to do laundry or dishes and he'd be laying on the couch.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I've given birth to 5 children....no drugs. I've passed kidney stones twice....with drugs.

I would much rather give birth than pass a kidney stone!!! The pain is excruciating!!!

 

[JessicaR]

I've given birth to 5 children....no drugs. I've passed kidney stones twice....with drugs.

I would much rather give birth than pass a kidney stone!!! The pain is excruciating!!!

They say this is a similar pain that help some men understand what labor pains feel like. I've had a few instances myself that labor would have been preferred. Thats saying something!

I sure do feel for all of you that have had to deal with this! It sounds so very painful.

 

[Buckalew11]

WHAT?!?!?
I am scared silly just reading that. My husband is the toughest person I've ever met, but there is NO, NO way on earth he could have gone to work, or driven his car, or functioned in any way with the pain he was in. He was writhing and thrashing in agony- it was horrendous to witness and I ended up breaking down in tears while registering him in the waiting room. Granted, I didn't know what was wrong with him at that point and I was thoroughly freaked out.

The amazing thing is how completely FINE he is now. All day I've wanted him to rest and drink water, and all he wants to do is fold laundry and do dishes. Which is hilarious, because on any other day I'd be dying for him to do laundry or dishes and he'd be laying on the couch.

Trust me, I'm not kidding. First one DH had was horrendous. Second one was about the same. They are all bad but for whatver reason he can function through them. When he did the physical, he actually had to do a FF physical agility test--while having a kidney stone.

His best friend's started the same way and while bad, he goes about life for the most part. He's passed them, blasted them and had them go get them.
And yes, he's had 90+ and the doctor's just tell him once you have one, you are more likely to have more. But I know people who have only had one. Seems like some people's body's just form them more than others.

 

[GirTheGecko]

I passed a stone earlier this year. It was bad. Then the stuff they gave me for the pain made me throw up, no matter what different foods and amounts I tried. Once the anti-nausea meds wore off, I was on my own. The best thing I found was standing in the shower with the hot water hitting my side, THAT was fab. According to my dbf (who nursed me through the whole thing) I tended to have no color and ghastly, then the shower fixed it for about an hour.

Never, ever want to experience that again.

 

[elgerber]

How old were you when you had them? I was under the impression they usually happen from ages 30 and on. I'm only 16 so I have a whiiiiiiiiile to go.

My son had his first one this summer, at the age of 16. It was terrible, we didn't know what it was at first, and he was writhing in pain. Took 7 weeks to pass, luckily he didn't feel much after the first couple of days. My dh has had too many to count, he's been having them since he was 15. He actually got one the day after my son passed his. I hate them, but they are life as normal in our house.

 

[jen0610]

DH can take a LOT of pain. Broke his foot back in 1996, walked on it for 4 days, including a 5 mile road march with a 90lb rucksack, before he finally went to the Dr's.

It was about this time two years ago, that he started to have pain, left side towards the lower back. Kept putting it off, taking advil and eating tums to settle his stomach. Finally the one night he was getting ready to go to work and you could just tell by his color and tension on his face, that it was really bad. But he went to work.

However, he wasn't there all night. Around midnight, he comes home, but he is in so much pain by the time he got there, he was crawling on hands and knees to get into the house. I wanted to go directly to the ER, he said he'd wait til morning and go the our normal Dr. Half hour later, we left and went to the ER. His new favorite pain killer is Hydrocodone. It took another week before he passed the stone.

Fast forward to this January. DH started to have the same type of pain, in the same area. DH only went a couple of days, before he said we were going to the Drs. Got there and this time it wasn't a stone, but he did part with his appendix. After that first stone, he had sworn that he will never fight thru that much pain ever again in his life. Thank god he did that, otherwise with his previous mindset, we could have been dealing with a burst appendix rather than just an enflammed appendix.