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Rick_a
| Posted on Monday, June 06, 2016 - 09:26 pm: |
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quote:The stone is OUT!!!
Good news. Here's to not getting another.
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Blake
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 02:23 am: |
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Does this make you a "stoner"? |
Glitch
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 04:58 am: |
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formerly stoned |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 06:55 am: |
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LOL... guilty as charged. I tell you what, my kidney still feels like it got hit by a baseball bat. But this low level pain is totally insignificant compared to the stone itself. 7am and I'm already on my second bottle of water. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 08:36 am: |
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You can overdose on water and that's not pretty. First aid ? Not so much. Give Gatorade while waiting for ambulance. Pray. I deal with heat exhaustion cases a lot. Fencers wear a lot of protective cloth that doesn't breath and a mask that does a great job of trapping heat. Won't even get into leather scale armor or 15th century plate steel. Half strength Gatorade. There's a saying. If half strength Gatorade tastes good, you needed it. Water o.d. is much rarer but has grown since fad water diets & the internet telling you to drink a gallon every hour. Drink before you're thirsty is good advice. Drink x gallons a day..... is not. Seriously. Most rational folk that pay attention to their bodies won't have a problem with too much water. Too little is pretty common. Your urine should be light straw in color. Not clear. Not brown. You're good over a range. If you get stones your good range should be a bit lighter. |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 09:14 am: |
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I'm going with 1 bottle every 2 hours, or 8 oz. per hour. If I'm not doing anything to make me sweat, I'm dialing it back to 1 bottle every 3 hours or so. |
Sifo
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 09:34 am: |
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Speaking of urine... They have me taking vitamin B complex to help prevent new stones. I couldn't begin to tell you why at this point. I can tell you, if they have you start that, you urine will be quite yellow, even when well hydrated. If you need to pee numerous times per day, you are probably in a good range with water intake. When you start going 5-6 hours at a time without peeing, you might want to bump that up. As you note, when you are working and sweating a lot, you need much more water. Hanging in a shady hammock, not so much. Common sense and paying attention to your urine color will work far better than a set amount to drink. |
M2statz
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 10:25 am: |
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As a Medical Imaging Specialist, yeah I take X-rays and CT Scans, I see the best of your stories and the worst too...After 20+ years one can tell who is really passing a stone, one who has passed a stone in the past and now is looking for pain meds and the ones who who know just enough to say they have a stone and are seeking meds. The biggest stone that I have seen has about 1.5cm. Think about your average sized pea. No they didn't make him pass it but went up after it to break it up. Yes, retrograde, with a scope, makes every guy in the room cringe. |
Aesquire
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 10:36 am: |
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Yep. Various things can change the color. Red is usually reason to call the doctor. Common sense and an awareness of your self is better than fad numbers. Citrus drinks? Vitamin C never hurts. You can't overdose your body just whizzes excess away. ( E you can get in trouble with. Avoid predator liver which can concentrate a lethal dose. ) I used to buy the Vitamin C myth. Did a gram a day. No colds. Stop taking for one day? Got a cold. Hmmm. Don't take any? Normal # of colds. Conclusion? Doesn't hurt. Don't bother most of the time. Vitamin D is last year's fad. 90% bogus. If you never see the sun then it doesn't hurt. Anyone outdoors a lot doesn't need any.. I'm outside all day. I'm also one of the transparent blue skin Northern people. We evolved transparent skin to maximize Vitamin D production in low sun angle frozen climates where only small amounts of skin are exposed. ( bundled up in wool leather and fur..... today I use wool cordura and poly..... ) YMMV. |
Court
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 11:20 am: |
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>>>The biggest stone that I have seen has about 1.5cm What would 22mm look like ? :-) |
M2statz
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 11:23 am: |
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What would 22mm look like? PAINFUL!! |
Airbozo
| Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2016 - 02:56 pm: |
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So I am guessing that pee that smells and looks like Blackthorne Cider is not a good thing (still had some effervescence too)? LOL! That was a pretty foggy and bad week. Glad you passed it. Have a name for it yet? Pretty common to name things coming out your private parts for reference at a later date. Hell you could claim it as a dependent. |
04xl1200c
| Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2016 - 01:48 am: |
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25.4 mm is one inch. 22 x 0.0393701 = 0.8661422 or about 55/64.... 1.5CM = 15 mm =15*0.0393701=0.59055 is about 19/32. would have thought someone taking CT scans and such would have seen a bigger one than that. Not that 1.5cm isn't huge when you think of it going through the small tube between kidney and bladder. If I recall correctly my doctor said the biggest he knew of anyone passing was maybe 4mm, a little under a quarter of a inch on it's biggest measurement. |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2016 - 08:39 am: |
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The one I passed was 5mm, and let me tell you that was big enough. |
Hacksaw
| Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2016 - 11:04 am: |
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Pwnzor was having it blasted offered? |
Froggy
| Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2016 - 06:58 pm: |
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Saw this online today, kidney stone from a horse
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Ourdee
| Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2016 - 07:30 pm: |
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Vitamin C good? My meds warn me to not use oranges. Can give me stones as an interaction. |