#kidney stone

[ilivewithintheshadows]

People with chronic pain i.e. me: eh, I'm just gonna ignore this giant stabbing pain in me cuz it's inconvenient to be happening now

#fibromyalgia #disabilities #kidney stone #chronic pain

[memories-of-ancients]

Jan de Doot and the kidney stone he removed from himself in 1651.

#history #art #kidney stone #healthcare #medicine #17th century

[hygieiapides-the-vulgar]

Toph Beifong’s face approxamitely 1.45 seconds before she earthbends the kidney stones inside your body because you drink too much soda.

#brainspew #shitpost #meme #avatar the last airbender #toph beifong #kidney stone #earthbending

[mudwerks]

(via Kidney stone surface as seen in an electron microscope : oddlyterrifying)

ow

#Kidney stone #electron microscope

[microscope-world]

Calcium oxalate crystals in urine (the most common cause of kidney stones) under the ZEISS Axiolab 5 microscope.

#calcium oxalate #kidney stone #crystals #microscope #microscopy #science

[fairykukla]

"Sorry, I can't come in to work today. I have to suffer."

I awoke early and went to use the bathroom. I was still half asleep and was having a "Why hurting?" moment.

Oh.

It must be Kidney Stone Day.

Fucking great.

So yeah, there's a red hot poker jammed into my right hip.

I took my Ibuprofen. I forced myself to eat some bread so I could take my flomax. I contactedy friend, the doctor, who is in town.

I texted my boss, who is all, "Well, if you can't come in today I'm cancelling your classes tomorrow."

Like, I don't know how this will work? I know that it's gonna be horrific until the little stone is out, and that afterward I will feel much better. I have no idea what the timeline is going to be.

Lady, I did not call you during a huge annual sale to tell you that I don't feel like working today, and I'm gonna go eat bonbons and read fanfiction instead.

I didn't arbitrarily decide to dump half my hours this week when my next week's vacation pay is based on an average of how many hours I worked for the last 6 weeks (including this one.)

I called in sick because I'm in terrible pain, and have to have ready access to a toilet with a strainer. I'm not going to work retail while this is going on.

And I might be right as rain tomorrow, and able to teach those classes.

Ooooggh. I'm going to go suffer now.

#2023 #tw pain #tw kidney #kidney stone #tw shitty boss

[dreamcorechild]

Update:

Been 3 months and I still got the stone in me.. There is no other option than to have it removed during surgery.. I don't know when or where.. But if I don't come back.. Then it's safe to assume that I'll be in bed resting from all of this...

3 months I have suffered by one single stone..

If only they can tell me if I can take the surgery or not.. I don't know what's going to happen to me after.

I have never been through a surgery before.. I'm scared if I'll ever wake up again.

#vent post #tw vent #vent #kidney stone #kidney stone surgery #i'm scared #update #i'm still alive

[demiguiselady]

It's been a couple of years, but my old enemy, the kidney stone, has found me again.

Haven't gone to the ER, because I know what they'll say (Tylenol, lots of water) and I'm just stubborn. This fucker hasn't put me on the floor yet, so I can tough it out.

#kidney stone #yay

[one-in-boots]

God made humanity to do two things: eat peanut butter and go mountain biking. What the fuck is "pass kidney stone"???? I hope my doctor knows he's a blasphemer.

#196 #shitposting #r/196 #murdering babies #mtb bikes #kidney stone #mountain biking #when man invented snow sports god was like “whoa nice i cant believe i didn't think of that” #after that people started getting the wrong idea #now EVERYONE thinks we can keep making shit up as if skiing wasn't a fluke

[bbyxbunn]

LUNCH

#me #kidney stone #cancer #Mexicans #so yummy #yummy yum yum

[desdinonniying]

US Pain management sexism bullshit

Background: My wife is trans. AMAB. That shouldn't matter, but it matters in certain medical stuff.

This rant will talk about sexism and maybe some transphobia, or at least people not being informed about trans stuff. And medical stupid stuff. And frustration.

I have a lot of issues with my time in this specific hospital and my treatment with kidney stones, but this rant is specifically about the sexism within pain management.

I have a history of kidney stones, between 2021 and 2022. Three stones. 2mm, 4mm, 2mm.

The first time I went to the ER, I didn't know if it was a stone or bowel blockage. I just knew I was in pain. Wife took me to the ER. Doc said it could be a kidney stone or diverticulitis. Thought diverticulitis was more likely because if it was a stone, I'd be "rolling on the bed in agony." I was still in pain, and they gave me IV morphine, took me for imaging. Morphine started wearing off, pain started coming back, and the nurse came in and declared it was a kidney stone and I'd be receiving pain meds that would be more effective for the condition - what I call extreme ibuprofen. Takes down the inflammation. Makes sense. They gave me some IV of that and eventually sent me home with more extreme ibuprofen and what was basically flomax - all to reduce inflammation and open up the ureters to make the stone pass easier.

I do have issues with that first visit, but pain-wise I think they took care of me.

Second stone was the following summer. I knew it was a stone because it was the same symptoms. I went to the ER and told them this. The only pain management they gave me was the IV ibuprofen. Ok, made sense. Sent home with the same stuff as last time, and followed up some days later with a urologist, who set me up to have an ultrasound in a few weeks to check stone progress.

Few weeks later, the pain again. Opposite side. Go to the ER. Explain the symptoms. They put me in a bed in the hall because no beds are available. Sucks, but whatever. It took over an hour for them to get me the IV ibuprofen and fluids. I get that they were busy, but I was in pain. I get scanned, they tell me that not only do I have a small stone on the side I was feeling pain, but the stone on the other side hadn't moved much, so I was to have surgery the next day.

I only had IV ibuprofen overnight. Had the surgery the next morning. Stents from urethra to ureter, bloody burning hellfire piss and kidney spasms for days. They gave me oxy, but it didn't touch the pain.

I found out via my mother that there's a specific medication that they have for this kind of surgery, specifically to relieve pain the the urethra for UTIs and post-surgery. I wasn't given this. I asked for it, but was told that I'm allowed to take over-the-counter Azo. I don't think it helped much, but it felt more effective than the oxy, which just made me dizzy for like fifteen minutes.

So that all happened summer 2022. I still talk about the experience in therapy, because healing isn't linear, but I'm okay.

Fast forward to early this morning. My wife starts experiencing the same symptoms I experienced. We go to the ER.

Now, my wife has been to this ER before for other issues. She's been there back when she identified as nonbinary, and after she started identifying as a woman. So she's had the F marker on her wrist band. She's "passed" enough that doctors have given her pregnancy tests "just in case" even though I've been there as the wife - we looked like a cis lesbian couple. (I understand that doing pregnancy tests with cis lesbian couples is done, because cheating and other stuff happens - they gave me pregnancy tests while assuming my wife was a cis woman as well. Covering medical basis with a simple piss test is not something I'll argue against.) But (I thiiiink?) it is in her notes that she's trans, and since she needed imaging done and this was regarding the urinary tract (also the receptionist said stuff about period/uterus involvement and questions), which is different in AMAB biology than AFAB, they needed to put an M marker on her wrist band.

Which I was pissed at - could they at least put some sort of "trans" marker on these bands so they know that while she has AMAB anatomy that she's she/her?

But whatever. She got a room and got treated relatively quickly - probably due to the time of day. They gave her fluids and IV ibuprofen. They determined she had a small kidney stone, around 2mm, and that she had an infection from it. The pain meds started wearing off.

They gave her an antibiotic and oxy in the hospital. Ok, fair. I had morphine during my first stone.

They sent her home with antibiotics, flomax, and oxy.

For the same condition, same size stone, they sent an AMAB person home with hella pain meds, and only gave me, and AFAB person, a script for hella pain meds after a surgery.

Which, honestly? That tracks.

Now, my wife is not a man. So don't you radfems or terfs come after me. And trans friends, don't come after me for sharing my wife's gender assigned at birth. But she had the M on her wrist band, so she was interpreted as male by some medical staff. And because most medical professionals are barely informed on trans stuff, they likely saw her as a man.

And you know what's common? Medical professionals giving more/better pain management medication to men (or people they interpret as men) than women (or people they interpret as women.) For the same conditions.

My wife, who they interpreted as male, was sent home with a script for an opioid for a 2mm kidney stone. I, an AFAB person who is interpreted as a cis woman, was sent home with high-dose ibuprofen for a 2mm kidney stone. And for a 4mm kidney stone.

How is this fair?

Now, I'm not asking for pain meds - I'm not in pain now. I'm not a drug seeker. When I was given an opioid after my surgery, I had two doses and flushed the rest because they did nothing for me. That's due to my system being weird - I have no idea why I metabolize drugs like this. Happens when I consume cannabis (legal in my state) as well.

I'm not asking for justice. I don't want my wife's meds to be taken away. I just want her feeling better. I'm not upset at her either - she's not the one who asked for specific meds. She just has a kidney stone and is in pain and asked for treatment.

I'm just saying that there's sexism in how medical professionals give out pain medication. And this should be changed.

AFAB people feel pain just as much as AMAB people.

And kidney stone pain is comparable to pain from childbirth. And people who give birth deserve to have pain meds too.

So yeah.

#ooc #kidney stone #medical stuff #pain management #sexism

[gramarobin]

#life advice #lemon water #kidney stone

[sodium-bitch]

screw birthstones, whats your kidney stone

#poll #birthstone #stone #kidney ston #kidney stone #among us #critical role #cute #loss.jpg #toh vee #i've never blocked someone #shitpost #keyleth of the air ashari #tumblr milestone #polls

[mcatmemoranda]

Patients with kidney stones should be admitted if pt has uncontrolled pain, uncontrolled vomiting, B/L kidneys are obstructed, pt is septic, or pregnant pts (b/c pyelonephritis increases the risk of ARDS).

#kidney stones #kidney stone #nephrolithiasis

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

When I had a kidney stone...

#so everyone I know who has had a #kidney stone #found it VERY important #to lay on the floor #it's like a thing? #it's a thing #Chronic Illness #spoonie #chronic pain #chronic fatigue

[cr1mson5returns]

So my kidney stone surgery got moved to today for emergent reasons, but I'm home and recovering now. Won't be able to drive until Sunday, but I have plenty of Christmas/winter holiday gifts to work on and lots of stuff for my Substack to prepare, and I'm really hoping that this helps me get on the mend. I have a metabolic panel happening in follow-up, as well. Three stones were destroyed during the procedure today, and I'm just hoping that I find out what's going on with me.

#cr1mson talks life #kidney stone #surgery #shut up cr1m