i have a kidney stone!!! (PASSED!!!!!!)

[eniam rognab]

Funny story Phil, thanks for that! put a smile on my face just desserts

Zippy, great minds think alike, i am going to screen shot this whole damn business in chunks and save them to the cloud, gonna try to enter a few applications as there are many jobs available that i qualify for, plus i already work in the EV industry repairing industrial battery chargers. also i will fill out a 'general' application so they could decide what suits me best, working on the cover letter now... also, feel free to share your story or any story, thats why i started this thread ride on buddy!! (peace sign with left hand as we pass each other)

haha Colossal, if you are interested it is called Tamsulosin, generic for Flomax

managed to work 7 hours today! waited until the pain returned before leaving so i wasnt riding my motorcycle under any influence. felt good to focus on something i enjoy and be comfortable at work. i certainly got my exercise today walking to the bathroom every 15 minutes

[Colossal]

haha Colossal, if you are interested it is called Tamsulosin, generic for Flomax

Hahah, Flomax? Awesome.

When I require high volume, I trust Flomax.

Flomax. No one pees faster than you.

[eniam rognab]

hahaha there is a picture of a racehorse on each pill!!

[eniam rognab]

all: keep all the stories coming!! i really appreciate commiserating while keeping a light hearted attitude. there is SO much experience on here, i would love to read each and every one

laughter is the best medication, no nasty side effects

[Leo_Gnardo]

hahaha there is a picture of a racehorse on each pill!!

Hah, that's good. But they could have used a cow, old rural saying: "It's raining so hard, like a cow pissin' on a flat rock."

Speaking of rocks, you know you're going to have to post photos whatever rocks come out. After, not during, pleeeeze.

That stuff better dilate your ureters (tubes from kidney to bladder) as well as urethra. I figure your doc knows what he's doing.

Did your doc ask you what's in your diet? If you've been chugging spinach like Popeye, the oxalic acid in nice natural nutritious delicous California valley spinach can do it. Beans too. Crap, you might have to avoid stone-building foods & drinks now. Phooey. Easy enough to read up on it, must be a hundred places on the interwebs.

[David Root]

I had one of those in '86 a year after we moved to the States, and I can still remember it. They put me on Demerol and a saline IV that blew up my kidneys till they felt like grapefruits.

Finally the pain just went away real quick and I asked them if they'd just hit me up with more Demerol, but no, the little bugger was now out into my bladder so they sent me home and told me to watch out for it comin' thru.

It was like a tiny watermelon about 3/8" long, I only found one longitudinal section. Doctor told me to cut down on the red wine.

My father had lots of them in his fifties, but he loved to eat rhubarb and that contains lots of oxalic acid. In those days they didn't waste painkillers on the hoi polloi in Britain's infamous National Health System, so he went thru hell.

[eniam rognab]

damn, thats crazy David! all parts included

i was meeting with my old electronics professors earlier this morning. Mr Kumar said he had one and they used the ultrasonic technique to break it up, then he said that Mr Duvall has them all the time and just deals with it!!

i consider Mr Duvall (the head of the department) my mentor and i hold him in the highest respect, couldn't believe Mr Kumar when he told me. pegged my respect meter!! and maybe explains some of his crankier days damn tough old fucker, i wanna be that someday...

[Zippy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4aP2iKa ... D1AAB42714

[eniam rognab]

how fitting Zippy!! i will name him George!

as requested pictures! thanks for all your support everybody

definitely more of a flake than a 'stone,' stung quite a bit on the way out but i am feeling 100% better. broke a piece off fishing it out the toilet bowl then washed my hands several times and disinfected old george with hand sanitizer

WHEW hope i dont have to deal with that again! see ya later Georgie!!!

[xtian]

Ding! Winner!

[Bob S]

Way to go !
Or not the way to go.
Even looks malicious...
That's gotta be a relief.

[Leo_Gnardo]

as requested pictures!

Looks like a nickel to me, yes heckuva thing to have to pee out. How did THAT get in there ???

Whups! Now I got my glasses on I see that yellow crystal, sure looks sharp. Bring it to your doc, they can figure out if it's typical calcium oxalate or something else. Now stay well-hydrated for the rest of your life & let's hope that's the last of it.

Now a sound track for you "Cool Water" pick Sons of the Pioneers or the new version with extra verses Joni Mitchell with Willie Nelson.

[Structo]

Ouch!

Looks like a shard of glass!

[eniam rognab]

Looks like a shard of glass!

felt like one too! haha,

thats exactly how i have been describing it to people who dont wish to view it in person, wonder why they dont wanna see it... i dunno, im like a proud father, check out mah bay-bay

[Phil_S]

Amazing! I can see why your glad it's out. Stop eating all that yogurt!