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kensmachine Oldtimer Offline Posts: 574 Joined: Nov 21^st, 2012	week 1/2 in hospital Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 11:05am	Print Post
	passed one or more Gallstones so now I have spent a week in the hospital not a fun week & 1/2. they sent me home can't cut on me tell the kidney swelling goes down. ken


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Cat_Whisperer Frequent Elocutionist Offline No 1, 9.3x74R Posts: 3985 Location: Mountains of Virginia Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #1 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 11:25am	Print Post
	Ooooooooooo. Not fun. Get over it!

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18020 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #2 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 11:30am	Print Post
	Geez Ken!!! I sure hope you get through this soon, and feel better! I've heard they're pretty painful.

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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3001 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #3 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 11:40am	Print Post
	Happened to me last Easter Sunday. The Docs (2) told me it was the most painful thing that does not kill you outright. Took me 17 days to get back to normal sleep routine. Hang in there. If you can pass the stones, you'll be OK.


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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #4 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 11:59am	Print Post
	Beyond being painful most pain meds won't even take off the edge off at least they didn't work very well for me. Best of luck and I hope they get a handle on it very soon. JLouis

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7641 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #5 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 12:05pm	Print Post
	Ken, Are they Gallstones or kidney stones? I ask because you mention kidney swelling. I haven't had gallstones but, I had 4 bouts of kidney stones, in 1.5 years, with 3 operations. I wish you well and know what you must be going through. Frank

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #6 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 12:43pm	Print Post
	Had my gall bladder out about 10 yrs ago. Seems it died before me. I wonder how many other "spare parts" are in there? Aaron

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CW Oldtimer Offline Posts: 531 Joined: Feb 20^th, 2018	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #7 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 12:45pm	Print Post
	frnkeore wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 12:05pm: Ken, Are they Gallstones or kidney stones? I ask because you mention kidney swelling. I haven't had gallstones but, I had 4 bouts of kidney stones, in 1.5 years, with 3 operations. I wish you well and know what you must be going through. Frank That was my question too. I have had three kidney stones, no gallstones. If the Gallstones are even more pain, I can't imagine.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18020 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #8 - Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 8:15pm	Print Post
	Rebel wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2018 at 12:43pm: Had my gall bladder out about 10 yrs ago. Seems it died before me. I wonder how many other "spare parts" are in there? Aaron Gall bladder failing is a lot more common than most people know. My wife's failed early in her 30's, but doctors mis diagnosed it because she had pancreas dyvism, which is an unformed pancreas from childhood. They continued to treat her pancreas for almost 10 years, with numerous pancreas attacks. Then finally a female doctor told her she shouldn't be having all these pancreatitis attacks, and she tested her gall bladder. A few days later they removed her gall bladder and she's never had another pancreatitis attack.

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waterman Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3001 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Joined: Jun 9^th, 2004	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #9 - Sep 4^th, 2018 at 3:45am	Print Post
	My gall bladder attack was Easter Sunday of 2017. Kidney stones was Easter of 2018. Done both. Kidney stones hurt worse, but it is a 9.875 compared with an 8.9. Both are best avoided, along with Easter. When my gall bladder failed, I thought I was having a heart attack.


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desert-dude Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 439 Location: Selah Joined: Jul 23^rd, 2013	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #10 - Sep 4^th, 2018 at 10:38am	Print Post
	I had lithotripsy for an 11 mm kidney stone; it wasn't going anywhere but could seriously damage my kidney so: 2 Kw holmium YAG laser followed by a stent to hold things open so the blasted (literally) pieces could pass. I'm now on a meat restricted diet, 4 oz max a day plus urocit-K 15 meq twice a day slow release to raise urinary pH to inhibit formation of kidney stones. The urocit is not a covered prescription and is $125-150 a month for a few pennies worth of potassium citrate; not a bad racket for someone. I simply mix 15 meq of potassium citrate in 3L of water and try to get thru that for daytime and then take a pill to cover the nighttime hours. Cuts the price in half. When traveling I simply suck it up and do pills morning and night.


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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7641 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #11 - Sep 4^th, 2018 at 12:27pm	Print Post
	desert-dude, Very interesting. I had a 20mm (yes 20) on my right side and a 10mm on my left. The rt side flared first, went to the ER, they found it and sent me to a Urologist, he blasted it and they said it was gone (right). A year later my lf side flared, they blasted it, then 6 more mo and the 7mm piece that they missed on the first blasting, flared up. The only good thing about that one, was they didn't have to put a tube in me to suck it out the pieces. One other torture that occurred, was a catheter, doubled back on itself and got stuck. They tried getting it out and then gave me pain meds and yanked it out But, I didn't get a stent or the potassium citrate. I was just told to drink much more water. They told me that mine were, most likely, caused from not drinking enough water. PM to follow. Frank

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svartkruttgris#369 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2980 Location: Colorado, Norway, Sweden Joined: Oct 28^th, 2014	Re: week 1/2 in hospital Reply #12 - Sep 6^th, 2018 at 10:56am	Print Post
	frnkeore wrote on Sep 4^th, 2018 at 12:27pm: I was just told to drink much more water. They told me that mine were, most likely, caused from not drinking enough water. Frank What other causes have doctors claimed? So far I have happily missed out on all this sort of "fun". Hope to keep it that way. Thanks!


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