Surgery was success, apprently. Will find out in a week when they check to see what is left. Three hours of nausea due to anasthesia have left me feeling like I have a bunch of busted ribs.
Thanks for all the comments. Apparently I am not alone in growing rocks!

Glad you are on the road to recovery.  My doc diagnosed me with stones a while back but said surgery wouldn't work,as my stones are cranial and were there at birth.
Best,
Al

6sally6 wrote:

Yeah.............I was diagnosed with kidney stones some were 3/4 to 1" in diameter. When the Doc examined me he stated.."you'll be able to pass'em no problem."
No prob!!!!

 LOL - - -  he prolly meant  3/4 - 1 milimeter, I doubt if an elephant could pass a rock that size without some major discomfort

Spent eleven hours passing some fragments Saturday. Lots of nasty pain.

MustangSteve wrote:

Spent eleven hours passing some fragments Saturday. Lots of nasty pain.

Oxycodone is the solution for this, it worked for me! 

Not over yet.  Oxycodone does absolutely nothing for my pain.  Another stone got hung up Sunday.  After 8 hours of hoping it would pass and let me live, I went to the ER again.  Got out about 1:00 Monday morning.  Doc at the ER gave me some Toradal as it is the only drug that will stop my pain.
I just hope all my customers are understanding because there is no way I can go hammer and weld on stuff in this condition.  I have a bunch of orders waiting ro be built.

Geez, good luck once again.

Mochaman wrote:

What happened to the procedures where they can bust them up with ultrasound?

I think he had that............just too big-ga chunkz.
Toradal seems to be "the drug that'll do it for stones"...swat-eye had and trust me......IT WORKZ!!!
 

If there's anything to make me drink more water, this thread does it!

Not exactly going as planned.  Bad pain every day until I get drugged up and that sometimes does not work.

Beer and water are your friends! The only Doc I ever had that perscribed beer!

Further info:

Going over the events of my wife's stone last Feb, we recall that the third day after the litho was the worst for her, but fortunately the last of it.  That Monday night when I got home from work my wife was in a chair in severe pain.  Nothing makes a person feel more helpless than watching someone in pain.  I headed for the shopping area looking for a couple of natural remedies that might help and hit the health food stores looking for Chanca Piedra which I read about on line.  I never found it locally but ordered some off Amazon along with another product called Stone Free, but I digress.

When I returned home empty handed some two hours later, she was in the chair afraid to move because her pain was (miraculously) gone.  She was afraid that if she moved the pain would return.  But fortunately, that was the last of it.  That third day was bad but she passed the last of the rubble and has had no pain since.  I seem to recall that mine was more like 48 hours after before pain free.  Our admittedly small sample size shows 48 to 72 hours of post litho pain.

Hopefully Steve will pass the rest today and be pain free from now on.

As for the homeo stuff, it arrived from Amazon but we haven't taken any of it.  Supposedly the Chanca Piedra is supposed to soften kidney stones.  The Stone Free stuff is supposed to turn it to sand.  We'll try it first sign of trouble.  Hopefully the bottles will remain unopened.

John

This is day 6. Now fever with it.  Sorry to drag you guys through this. Either going to doc or ER today.  This is just not right.