LifeNRA
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Hello all,
I thought I would let you all know of my most recent Doctor visit. I have had several people asking me about my health recently. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and thoughts over the last several months /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. In case anyone is reading this and wondering what in the world I am talking about let me give a brief history. I have suffered from kidney stones since I was 21 and since that time have passed around 80 of them. I have passed 14 this year (I thought it was 16 and I may have stated that in another thread but my wife keeps them all written down and she has only 14 recorded)and I have 3 inside of me right now. Needless to say all of these kidney stones have taken a huge toll on my life and the lives of my wife and 2 children. Anyway back to the Doctor visit yesterday. They run dye through me and took a bunch of x-rays. They of course took the mandatory urine sample and are also testing me for a few other things which I really do not need to go into right now. The Doctor is mainly trying to see how my left kidney is holding up and how much more scar tissue may have formed in my left tube. Since I have been in pain for the last year he thinks the scar tissue is the main culprit when I am having pain without a kidney stone passing. I should hear something today or tomorrow. My main concern is that if I can not stop producing kidney stones then I can at least handle the pain better. I am on oxycodone 10/650 which they tell me is the strongest they can give me. It helps take the edge off but does not relieve all the pain. The only thing that works better is going to the emergency room and getting morphine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. But for some reason they will not let me take any morphine home with me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinser2.gif.
I know it is not much of an update but we are still trying to figure some things out right now. Just please continue to keep my family in your prayers and thoughts and everything will work out fine in the end. I appreciate all of you and thank you for letting me rant a little about my conditon to you. I will ask that you continue to remember those who are much worse off than myself. The nurse that did my xrays yesterday said that there was a lady in there last week who's kidneys looked like swiss cheese and they had stones in them the size of your thumb. I guess she had some kind of kidney disease. I think about that poor woman and wonder why I ever complain. I sometimes feel a little guilty and selfish mentioning my own problems when so many others are suffering more than I am. I guess I consider all of you as part of a larger family and it helps me to share with you. Again please remember my family because when I suffer they suffer also. Thanks for letting me vent a little and thanks everyone here who makes CPF the best forum on the internet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I thought I would let you all know of my most recent Doctor visit. I have had several people asking me about my health recently. Thanks to everyone for your prayers and thoughts over the last several months /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. In case anyone is reading this and wondering what in the world I am talking about let me give a brief history. I have suffered from kidney stones since I was 21 and since that time have passed around 80 of them. I have passed 14 this year (I thought it was 16 and I may have stated that in another thread but my wife keeps them all written down and she has only 14 recorded)and I have 3 inside of me right now. Needless to say all of these kidney stones have taken a huge toll on my life and the lives of my wife and 2 children. Anyway back to the Doctor visit yesterday. They run dye through me and took a bunch of x-rays. They of course took the mandatory urine sample and are also testing me for a few other things which I really do not need to go into right now. The Doctor is mainly trying to see how my left kidney is holding up and how much more scar tissue may have formed in my left tube. Since I have been in pain for the last year he thinks the scar tissue is the main culprit when I am having pain without a kidney stone passing. I should hear something today or tomorrow. My main concern is that if I can not stop producing kidney stones then I can at least handle the pain better. I am on oxycodone 10/650 which they tell me is the strongest they can give me. It helps take the edge off but does not relieve all the pain. The only thing that works better is going to the emergency room and getting morphine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. But for some reason they will not let me take any morphine home with me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinser2.gif.
I know it is not much of an update but we are still trying to figure some things out right now. Just please continue to keep my family in your prayers and thoughts and everything will work out fine in the end. I appreciate all of you and thank you for letting me rant a little about my conditon to you. I will ask that you continue to remember those who are much worse off than myself. The nurse that did my xrays yesterday said that there was a lady in there last week who's kidneys looked like swiss cheese and they had stones in them the size of your thumb. I guess she had some kind of kidney disease. I think about that poor woman and wonder why I ever complain. I sometimes feel a little guilty and selfish mentioning my own problems when so many others are suffering more than I am. I guess I consider all of you as part of a larger family and it helps me to share with you. Again please remember my family because when I suffer they suffer also. Thanks for letting me vent a little and thanks everyone here who makes CPF the best forum on the internet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif