Stoned again

I don't like whats going on, seems I just have to deal with it. Wednesday about 11:00 pm I wake up with this familiar pain in my back. I know its the same thing as last time. Kidney stones. I hung on till 2:00 am Thursday then headed to the hospital. I was in luck it was a slow night and I got right in. They had me in a room before my wife parked her car. Now that's service. What luck!
After squirming a while they had it under control and they sent me for x-rays. Yep stones 3 of them I passed one there and later that night a 3mm one. On the up side I got 4 days off of work.
On the down side I have one still in the kidney a 2mm at this point. Just cant wait to pass this one. The ones did pass are going to analyzed to see whats going on here. I did take note of you guys telling me to drink more water and I have done so. I do still have a diet coke a couple times a day also I drink iced tea. I wonder what eles it could be?

Well see you on the water sometime.

Kevin

Hope the DOC's give you a good answer.  Its not nice to DO OVER.

I have had 4 stones in the last 10 years, It sucks to be in so much pain you are vomiting.!! Keep drinking extra water!!!!!

Badog

Talk to your doctor, kidney stones are complicated. It could be to much dairy, to much meat fat. But then other factors are diabetes, gentics and so on.
If you adjust your diet and do exactly what the doctor says they will go away. But you have to ask him because most docs are sick of telling people how to take care of their bodies and then they dont do it.

  Yhat sucks... If they get any larger matbe you could make jewelery with them.

Never had one, but college roommate had many. If I remember correctly, I think I  have heard it's an imbalance of Vit D and Calcium. I hope you can get it taken care of once and for all. I have heard passing them is like giving birth.

 
   I feel for you!  I recently had cramps in my side that felt like I was giving birth to something!  Fortunately for me the pain peaked and then subsided all in about 10 min.  I woke my wife saying she might have to take in. Doctor, next day was kinda useless,  2days later I watched a small pebble fall into an urinal.

  I can do without that pain again for the rest of my days!

Is that Tea Sweet tea by chance?  When I lived in work in South Carolina that was the drinkl of choice and Sc has one of the highest rates for the "stones" in the country.  Cokes are not a whole lot better.  Increase the water and drop the cokes & tea combo would be my advice. 

Maybe its cause I was born is South Carolina. Sullivans Island around Charleston. But anyway I hate sweet tea, green tea for me. I miss the fishing there. Blue crabs, flounder and shrimp.

Ocean_314 gave you some good advice.  Do some internet research and then talk to your doctor.  I thought I was passing one this summer turned out to be something much less serious.  There are so many different types and stones that can be aggravated by a remedy that would dissolve another type of stone, that you need to know exactly what kind you are passing.  Once you know that, you can decide the best dietary adjustments. 

I did a lot of research when I had mine. The stones can be formed of a number of different minerals and the dietary advice is different for each type.

A common theme tho is not to get dehydrated; drink lots of water. The simple act of having to pee a lot keeps your urine dilute and thus reduces the chance of the stones forming.

Don't go kayak fishing for hours and hours when you are throwing up every 20 minutes and can't keep any liquid down. Don't then play football in the South Bay sun for 4 hours the next day. Is the advice I would have given myself if I had known what was coming.

my dad had a kidney stone a couple years ago. Hit him at home and did'nt know what what going on, the emts thought he was having a heartattack. Sounds really pleasent hope i nevert go there