Yep, one of the worst pains I’ve ever had and would not wish it on my worst enemy. Had a stone about 10mm in the right kidney, too big to pass, so they broke it up with a lithotripsy and was put on flowmax afterwards, which worked…mostly. 6am next morning though I ended up in growing extreme pain. I vomited while I rushed myself to the ER. Literally walked myself and checked into the ER. The pain at this point was unbelievable and the morphine I was given did nothing. Turns out I had a fragment stuck in the ureter track next to the entrance to the bladder. So they had to give me an emergency ureteroscopy to break up the fragment. But by that time, along with 2 doses of morphine (which did nothing) and a dose of dilaudid, I was pretty much out of it. Still remember the pain though, but I was not very conscious by that point.
In college, my roommate had a kidney infection. I took her to the emergency room and waited with her to see a doctor. First and only time I’ve seen someone throw up from pain. 😬
Hi Dr. Malik, I watch all of your videos and love them. I was recently accepted to medical school and will be starting in July 2020. Your videos make me want to learn more about the field of urology! Thank you.
Just found your channel and you are very informative. Last year I had to have the laser surgery done to break up a kidney stone that had developed. It was extremely painful, before the surgery. In fact, I thought that I was having another hernia, which I had in the late 90's. The pain was similar, but more towards my lower back. When the doctor came back with the x-ray results, the first thing that he told me was that I was going to be prepped for surgery. The kidney stone was 10mm long. Everything turned out well though. Couldn't believe how long that tube was that they put up my urethra to reach the kidney. Had to be at least 12" long and I was asked if I wanted it as a keepsake, I passed. Keep up your great reactions.: )
Had a kidney stone once....worse experience ever! Woke up with excruciating back pain, which turned to vomiting. Then fainting! Ambulance called, and CT showed a kidney stone. Apparently my tube from the kidney was lucky quite straight (I’m a female), and the stone was “small” so I was told it should pass fast. I don’t remember actually passing it, but I do remember one of the nurses saying she had been through child birth and kidney stones and child birth hurt less!! I did feel better 12 hours later but it was an awful day....nausea, heart racing, pain! I never want to feel it again
I've had 4....found out that morphine is a WONDERFUL drug when used appropriately! The breathing thing...yeah. That was stone #1. Wife is driving me to the hospital at 3 am and I'm grunting like a fighter pilot in a high G turn. Stone 2....get seen right away. Doctor comes in and I immediately say "Hi...kidney stone, right side, 10 (reference to pain)" and held my arm out for the meds. Doc: "You've done this before, I see." Stone 3...emergency room made wait about 2 hrs before even taking my vitals, and by that time I'd paced around the room enough to move the stone to my bladder. Stone 4...Same emergency room, but a male nurse at the check-in station who I guess had had a stone himself, because I was admitted in 5 minutes. I could go the rest of my life and happily not have another. I've been fortunate that all 4 broke up on their own before getting out of the bladder....never felt a thing after then (which is great, because my stone nightmare would be passing one and be hung liker John Holmes!)
Thank you for this video. I had my first (and hopefully last) kidney stone yesterday. I went to the ER because I couldn't walk anymore, I couldn't talk, I was trembling, I cried heavily and filled 3 or 4 vomit bags of vomit. I felt so embarassed. After several hours in the hospital I was sent home, they said it was a little stone and it would pass naturally in few days. I got a stonescreen to catch the stone when it comes, because they want to analyze it. Since yesterday I have had few "episodes" of extreme pain and vomit, which always make me feel so weak and over dramatic. But after this video I don't feel bad about myself anymore, I guess this is normal.
This is me today. Went to ER. Pain was so bad my legs cramped up, I was hyperventilating and just miserable. Still waiting for it to pass, but the worst pain I have ever done.
@@dvdmrrs2 we will wait together, 48 hours since the pain began and my stone hasn't psssed yet 😖😨. This is the worst thing ever, if this hurts so bad, how can women have children? I will never understand that
Been down this road a few times. my first experience with Kidney Stones happened in December of '06 while I was on a trip with my dad to Disneyland, and while it IS the "Happiest Place On Earth" I was anything BUT Happy that trip. went home the next day went to the Hospital and *15* hour later I get the news that I had a Kidney Stone the size of my finger tip, it went into hiding for a while and they tried ESWL but it didn't work which I've heard )CAN* happen. fast forward to Wednesday November 27, 2013, the stone said *I WANT OUT!* went to the ER , got admitted and had surgery o Ureteroscopy & Laser Lithotripsy on Thanksgiving passed the fragments about 7 weeks later. I've got another big one hanging out in my right Kidney that will be removed this fall through a process called PCNL(Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy) basically what that ientail's is making a small incision in my back and pulling the stones out
I’ve had kidney stones. Worst pain ever. Even with pain medicine, I still felt them. It was absolute agony. Drinking water to pass them was difficult because of the horrible pain. 10/10 would not recommend.
After the first 4 kidney stones the other 36 past without pain. But that first one had me jump ing the ER for hours. 6 times they went in for them and 4 times liptro did the trick.
I've never had kidney stones 🤞🏼 but I have had gallstones and a post-surgical bile duct leak after my cholecystectomy, which was WAY worse than labor and worse than my c-section (which was awful).
I get oxalate stones regularly. They really are painful, especially lately when doctors are afraid to prescribe opioid painkillers, even post-op. Luckily I have a high pain tolerance but it still sucks
I hear kidney stones are like getting stabbed with a knife when it comes to pain, I mean, that’s what I hear from people who have experienced it. It’s a fate worse than death for most guys for… obvious reasons. But is it possible to pass a kidney stone without knowing?
I had an 8mm kidney stone about 15 years ago. It took 3 procedures over 2 weeks to get it out. I had a nephrostomy tube for a week between the procedures ( the second procedure was done by interventional radiology). I have almost cut off a finger, I've broken a few bones, torn ligaments and dislocated my shoulder 3 times. One 8mm kidney stone was exponentially worse than all those combined. I cried for like a month every time I had to pee.
As a doctor and a patient with a fairly long history of kidney stones. It is surprising that the presentation can be ambiguous, with the pain having just a general lateralization. One thing that I didn't appreciate until medical school is the small size of the ureters and the risk based on the size of the stone. Oh, and a recommendation for anyone in pain going to the ER. Ask for ketorolac and the ER docs are not going to suspect you of drug seeking, and a miracle drug for passing a kidney stone.
Kinda wished my first time the doctor in the urgent care took my pain more seriously. He thought it could be gas or just nothing serious. Saw nothing on the xray. Asked if I wanted to get an ultrasound. I said yes. I knew this was pain I had never experienced before and takes a lot for me to go to the doctor in general. I had an 8 millimeter stone. Oh, they also saw nothing in my urine sample until the culture 24 hours later. By this time I had started developing a fever. Kidney infection. I had it taken care of about a week and half later with the shockwaves. This year, I have since experienced 4 more while pregnant. I managed to pass the first two. One during first trimester, it was 5 millimeters, the second I was hospitalized due to pain and I started feeling off, so possible infection caused concern for me and baby. This is 2nd trimester. No infection but stone was 1 centimeter. Fortunately that broke apart and I was able to pass. 3rd trimester. I felt that now familiar pain. Waited it out. Went to the bathroom and saw the nice 4-5 millimeter stone in the toilet. Not done. About 1 week later I am in pain again. I wait it out. Pain comes and goes. Started Tuesday and by Friday morning after seeing my urologist and midwife I'm done. I'm tired and know that the nephrostomy tube is my only choice. It was placed 2 weeks ago now. I'm 32 weeks. I am so done with kidney stones. I have a 6 millimeter stone in my uterer but now cannot be seen due to baby and a 9 millimeter one floating around. I do not recommend this. While pregnant, so much worse.
I presume there isn’t much of a correlation between Hoshimoto’s Syndrome and kidney stones? After looking at the Oxalate food chart I realized that almost every food on there is Goitrogenic.
All my life, or at least since I was a teen 20+ years ago, I heard that you can't OD on Vitamin C. So in recent years any time I felt slightly under the weather I got some vitamin C drops to suck on and since they tasted good I was popping them in like candy. After I got my kidney stone last summer I read that large doses of Vit C can cause them. I don't know for sure but I suspect that might be it.
Had one three years ago. Was AWFUL. I literally never vomit (hadn’t for exactly ten years), so when I puked, I knew I had ti go to the hospital. Walked there with flank pain in the cold. Thankfully got some Dilaudid and passed it the next morning. Still have it.
I got a kidney stone while I was on vacation alone with my 16 years old littlesister. I’m 24 myself. I woke up in the middle of the night with the weirdest feeling and then a sudden pain. I got picked up by an ambulance and got to the ER and threw up all the time, I seriously thought i was going to die, I was also so scared because I didn’t know what it was. After 2 days they found out it was kidney stones and my parents had come to the country to be close to us. I was allowed to go home to the hotel 2 days after, but a couple hours after I got serious pain again and was rushed to the hospital again, vomiting and everything, and the stone was stuck and I couldn’t pass it so my kidney had gotten a bit inflamed so I got surgery in the morning.. it was so painful, kidney stones are definitely not a joke 😂😂😂 I have never felt something so painful before, and I’ve even had double jaw surgery twice, haha 😅
Omg girl me too. I've had mine since July... it hasn't passed yet despite hydrating, eating clean and losing weight to help it pass. It's not fun at all. They're supposedly exactly 5mm and the Dr. told me it should pass on its own but nothing.
Dr. Malik...do some people seem to have a much higher propensity towards having Kidney stones? I have known people who have had Kidney Stones and it seems like it's a recurring problem with them. One friend even had some kind of wire device implanted in his Kidney his problem was so bad at times. Can you please comment?
Yes they can have metabolic or genetic abnormalities that make it more likely for them to get recurrent kidney stones or sometimes it's due to dietary issues
Dr, Malik; I am wondering why the first test for kidney stones you mention is a CT scan w/o contrast. Why wouldn't you order a simple urine test (for blood) 1st. Seems awfully expensive for the patient to go right to a CT Scan.
A urinalysis wouldn't confirm a kidney stone,blood in the urine can be due to other causes and if you suspect a kidney stone you should do some imaging, can do a renal ultrasound or x-ray which are less expensive but less sensitive
Dr? when I had kidney stones they inserted a Stent in my eurethra and left it there for like a week and when I used to pee it would go to my kidney, is that normal procedure and why? 👎😕
Hmmm the nausea and vomiting is an interesting effect... presumably this is from the pain response? I ... hm.. actually probably there's something about this in the textbooks behind me - will have to look later when I wake up lol
It's because the nerves of the renal pelvis which gets stretched when a kidney stone blocks the urine drainage are along the same pathway as the stomacn and intetines causing the nausea and vomiting symptoms.
@@RenaMalikMD Oh that is super interesting - I wonder if this functions as a kind of 'distress' signal response of the enteric nervous system... since it is functionally promoting an emetic response and aversion to further eating... I wonder if something similar would happen if say you couldn't poop.... (checks) Ah! Yep! Oh that's so cool!! Thanks for the reply, Rena! Not enough time in the world to study all the things!
I had the classic kidney stone pain and they did a ct but couldn't see one so they just sent me home in crazy pain till i came back a week later were they told I did have but one. At this point I wasn't keeping anything down and felt absolutely horrible but the surgeon suggested I go home and wait for it to pass. He never mentioned giving any medication that would help it pass but I was in too much pain so I said I wanted surgery. Anyways after surgery he talks to my mom and says oh good thing we did surgery your kidney stone was stuck and was probably causing you a lot of pain. I really wish I had a better doctor at that moment
@@lucaverhaeghe875 pain is generally a really subjective experience. it's interesting to see men try the "labor simulators" because it seems like they can't really handle it that well compared to women. It's also interesting to hear the testimony of women who've both given birth and passed kidney stones. Those women usually say the pain of KS's are either comparable or worse than labor, so I'm assuming that KS's are felt very similarly to both men and women, whereas labor pain is better handled by women.
😂 I get oxylate based stones often so this had me cracking up. I remember my very first one my response to the ER doctor was, “But I’m a girl...kidney stones are a guy thing!” These days I’m thankful there is always Flomax in my medicine cabinet. Especially just a few days ago when another one decided it was tired of my kidney and wanted to move out. Twenty-seven hours later I breathed a huge sigh of relief one weirdly shaped 5x4x4 got added to my photo collection. 😂😂😂
I’ve had migraines, root canals, bones broken in half, ovarian cysts and kidney stones. Can confirm that nothing has touched kidney stones when it comes to pain.
This past month I got a kidney stone and the emergency room thought it was a 4mm stone but I ended up having a emergency surgery and my urologist said my stone ended up being a 6mm stone that I most likely wouldn’t pass it. I got a stent for 2 weeks then I got my stent and stone removed last week but my urologist put a new stent back in for a week to make sure i don’t get a infection with me being only 17 .
Yep, one of the worst pains I’ve ever had and would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Had a stone about 10mm in the right kidney, too big to pass, so they broke it up with a lithotripsy and was put on flowmax afterwards, which worked…mostly.
6am next morning though I ended up in growing extreme pain. I vomited while I rushed myself to the ER. Literally walked myself and checked into the ER. The pain at this point was unbelievable and the morphine I was given did nothing. Turns out I had a fragment stuck in the ureter track next to the entrance to the bladder.
So they had to give me an emergency ureteroscopy to break up the fragment. But by that time, along with 2 doses of morphine (which did nothing) and a dose of dilaudid, I was pretty much out of it. Still remember the pain though, but I was not very conscious by that point.
In college, my roommate had a kidney infection. I took her to the emergency room and waited with her to see a doctor. First and only time I’ve seen someone throw up from pain. 😬
Hi Dr. Malik, I watch all of your videos and love them. I was recently accepted to medical school and will be starting in July 2020. Your videos make me want to learn more about the field of urology! Thank you.
Thank you for watching!! Glad you are interested in urology!
Just found your channel and you are very informative. Last year I had to have the laser surgery done to break up a kidney stone that had developed. It was extremely painful, before the surgery. In fact, I thought that I was having another hernia, which I had in the late 90's. The pain was similar, but more towards my lower back. When the doctor came back with the x-ray results, the first thing that he told me was that I was going to be prepped for surgery. The kidney stone was 10mm long. Everything turned out well though. Couldn't believe how long that tube was that they put up my urethra to reach the kidney. Had to be at least 12" long and I was asked if I wanted it as a keepsake, I passed. Keep up your great reactions.: )
I'm watching this as my husband just got diagnosed with a kidney stone. Thankfully the pain doesn't seem as bad....yet.
Had a kidney stone once....worse experience ever! Woke up with excruciating back pain, which turned to vomiting. Then fainting! Ambulance called, and CT showed a kidney stone. Apparently my tube from the kidney was lucky quite straight (I’m a female), and the stone was “small” so I was told it should pass fast. I don’t remember actually passing it, but I do remember one of the nurses saying she had been through child birth and kidney stones and child birth hurt less!! I did feel better 12 hours later but it was an awful day....nausea, heart racing, pain! I never want to feel it again
So Sorry - it really can be horrible!
I've had 4....found out that morphine is a WONDERFUL drug when used appropriately!
The breathing thing...yeah. That was stone #1. Wife is driving me to the hospital at 3 am and I'm grunting like a fighter pilot in a high G turn.
Stone 2....get seen right away. Doctor comes in and I immediately say "Hi...kidney stone, right side, 10 (reference to pain)" and held my arm out for the meds. Doc: "You've done this before, I see."
Stone 3...emergency room made wait about 2 hrs before even taking my vitals, and by that time I'd paced around the room enough to move the stone to my bladder.
Stone 4...Same emergency room, but a male nurse at the check-in station who I guess had had a stone himself, because I was admitted in 5 minutes.
I could go the rest of my life and happily not have another.
I've been fortunate that all 4 broke up on their own before getting out of the bladder....never felt a thing after then (which is great, because my stone nightmare would be passing one and be hung liker John Holmes!)
@@samsignorelli with my stones, one shot of morphine would only take the edge off. They'd have to give me another or just a shot of dilaudid.
@@pnut3844able Ouch...my sympathies.
Thank you for this video. I had my first (and hopefully last) kidney stone yesterday. I went to the ER because I couldn't walk anymore, I couldn't talk, I was trembling, I cried heavily and filled 3 or 4 vomit bags of vomit. I felt so embarassed. After several hours in the hospital I was sent home, they said it was a little stone and it would pass naturally in few days. I got a stonescreen to catch the stone when it comes, because they want to analyze it. Since yesterday I have had few "episodes" of extreme pain and vomit, which always make me feel so weak and over dramatic. But after this video I don't feel bad about myself anymore, I guess this is normal.
This is me today. Went to ER. Pain was so bad my legs cramped up, I was hyperventilating and just miserable. Still waiting for it to pass, but the worst pain I have ever done.
@@dvdmrrs2 we will wait together, 48 hours since the pain began and my stone hasn't psssed yet 😖😨. This is the worst thing ever, if this hurts so bad, how can women have children? I will never understand that
Drive more water
It's called having second and third opinions .. from same person
Kidneey stoooonee ..
Very informative, very good reaction video.
I'm learning a lot from your videos! Keep it up!
Been down this road a few times. my first experience with Kidney Stones happened in December of '06 while I was on a trip with my dad to Disneyland, and while it IS the "Happiest Place On Earth" I was anything BUT Happy that trip. went home the next day went to the Hospital and *15* hour later I get the news that I had a Kidney Stone the size of my finger tip, it went into hiding for a while and they tried ESWL but it didn't work which I've heard )CAN* happen. fast forward to Wednesday November 27, 2013, the stone said *I WANT OUT!* went to the ER , got admitted and had surgery o Ureteroscopy & Laser Lithotripsy on Thanksgiving passed the fragments about 7 weeks later. I've got another big one hanging out in my right Kidney that will be removed this fall through a process called PCNL(Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy) basically what that ientail's is making a small incision in my back and pulling the stones out
I’ve had kidney stones. Worst pain ever. Even with pain medicine, I still felt them. It was absolute agony. Drinking water to pass them was difficult because of the horrible pain. 10/10 would not recommend.
Had those. Not shinny, 0/10 would not recommend.
After the first 4 kidney stones the other 36 past without pain. But that first one had me jump ing the ER for hours. 6 times they went in for them and 4 times liptro did the trick.
Very informative. Thanks doc.
Enjoyed the video. I get chronic kidney stones so I know what Joey is going through. Thanks for informing everyone.
Just found your channel recently, I really like how simply you explain things. Very interesting!
Thank you!
I've never had kidney stones 🤞🏼 but I have had gallstones and a post-surgical bile duct leak after my cholecystectomy, which was WAY worse than labor and worse than my c-section (which was awful).
ouch! Glad you are better now!
I get oxalate stones regularly. They really are painful, especially lately when doctors are afraid to prescribe opioid painkillers, even post-op. Luckily I have a high pain tolerance but it still sucks
Sorry to hear that!
I hear kidney stones are like getting stabbed with a knife when it comes to pain, I mean, that’s what I hear from people who have experienced it. It’s a fate worse than death for most guys for… obvious reasons. But is it possible to pass a kidney stone without knowing?
I had an 8mm kidney stone about 15 years ago. It took 3 procedures over 2 weeks to get it out. I had a nephrostomy tube for a week between the procedures ( the second procedure was done by interventional radiology).
I have almost cut off a finger, I've broken a few bones, torn ligaments and dislocated my shoulder 3 times. One 8mm kidney stone was exponentially worse than all those combined. I cried for like a month every time I had to pee.
:-( that's so sad!
As a doctor and a patient with a fairly long history of kidney stones. It is surprising that the presentation can be ambiguous, with the pain having just a general lateralization. One thing that I didn't appreciate until medical school is the small size of the ureters and the risk based on the size of the stone. Oh, and a recommendation for anyone in pain going to the ER. Ask for ketorolac and the ER docs are not going to suspect you of drug seeking, and a miracle drug for passing a kidney stone.
Kinda wished my first time the doctor in the urgent care took my pain more seriously.
He thought it could be gas or just nothing serious. Saw nothing on the xray. Asked if I wanted to get an ultrasound. I said yes.
I knew this was pain I had never experienced before and takes a lot for me to go to the doctor in general.
I had an 8 millimeter stone.
Oh, they also saw nothing in my urine sample until the culture 24 hours later. By this time I had started developing a fever. Kidney infection.
I had it taken care of about a week and half later with the shockwaves.
This year, I have since experienced 4 more while pregnant. I managed to pass the first two. One during first trimester, it was 5 millimeters, the second I was hospitalized due to pain and I started feeling off, so possible infection caused concern for me and baby. This is 2nd trimester. No infection but stone was 1 centimeter. Fortunately that broke apart and I was able to pass.
3rd trimester. I felt that now familiar pain. Waited it out. Went to the bathroom and saw the nice 4-5 millimeter stone in the toilet.
Not done. About 1 week later I am in pain again. I wait it out. Pain comes and goes. Started Tuesday and by Friday morning after seeing my urologist and midwife I'm done. I'm tired and know that the nephrostomy tube is my only choice.
It was placed 2 weeks ago now. I'm 32 weeks. I am so done with kidney stones. I have a 6 millimeter stone in my uterer but now cannot be seen due to baby and a 9 millimeter one floating around.
I do not recommend this. While pregnant, so much worse.
Sorry to hear your unfortunate experience, thanks for sharing.
5:43 I hate flow max! But it did help.
I have passed several stones including a 5mm, that pai. Is enough to make anyone and I men anyone cry and writhe in agony
My mother had a kidney stone several years ago - she was literally doubled over in pain.
I think I passed a stone, it was tube shaped just like a zinc capsule in size and white in color. No pain I was just peeing on day and it shot out
I presume there isn’t much of a correlation between Hoshimoto’s Syndrome and kidney stones? After looking at the Oxalate food chart I realized that almost every food on there is Goitrogenic.
Not that I'm aware of
All my life, or at least since I was a teen 20+ years ago, I heard that you can't OD on Vitamin C. So in recent years any time I felt slightly under the weather I got some vitamin C drops to suck on and since they tasted good I was popping them in like candy. After I got my kidney stone last summer I read that large doses of Vit C can cause them. I don't know for sure but I suspect that might be it.
"Kidney Stonnnes"! 😂
Had one three years ago. Was AWFUL. I literally never vomit (hadn’t for exactly ten years), so when I puked, I knew I had ti go to the hospital. Walked there with flank pain in the cold. Thankfully got some Dilaudid and passed it the next morning. Still have it.
That's great you passed it on your own!
Had Kidney stones
The worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. 5 days in agony and suddenly the pain disappeared after weeing
Love the video I know its about kidney stones but what about gall stones are they similar but they come from a different part of the body
They are very different in what causes them and the treatment
Having had kidney stones multiple times. As in more than 10 ( only passed 2 on my own) I can tell you the Friends episode isn’t far off. lol
I got a kidney stone while I was on vacation alone with my 16 years old littlesister. I’m 24 myself. I woke up in the middle of the night with the weirdest feeling and then a sudden pain. I got picked up by an ambulance and got to the ER and threw up all the time, I seriously thought i was going to die, I was also so scared because I didn’t know what it was. After 2 days they found out it was kidney stones and my parents had come to the country to be close to us. I was allowed to go home to the hotel 2 days after, but a couple hours after I got serious pain again and was rushed to the hospital again, vomiting and everything, and the stone was stuck and I couldn’t pass it so my kidney had gotten a bit inflamed so I got surgery in the morning.. it was so painful, kidney stones are definitely not a joke 😂😂😂 I have never felt something so painful before, and I’ve even had double jaw surgery twice, haha 😅
I have them now and I’m in soo much pain.
So sorry to hear that
Omg girl me too. I've had mine since July... it hasn't passed yet despite hydrating, eating clean and losing weight to help it pass.
It's not fun at all. They're supposedly exactly 5mm and the Dr. told me it should pass on its own but nothing.
I’m watching this with kidney stone pain 😫🥺😫🥺😫🥺
Sorry to hear that! Hope you pass it soon!
Here for same reason- were you ok?
literally same 😭😭😭
I can’t tell if I have one or if it’s my back being stiff, it’s a very dull pain though
My wife has birthed three children and also had a kidney stone. She says she’d give birth to twenty more before she’d have a kidney stone again.
Rena Malik, your smile lights up my day❤
Not sure what it means, but for mine, they did a CT scan, X-ray and ultrasound... maybe kinda small?
Took me 3 months to pass my 4.6mm stone. That was fun. Lots of drugs!
That's a long time to be uncomfortable!
@@RenaMalikMD Stupid tests kept coming back that my kidney was fine and so the pain was just something to put up with.
Dr. Malik...do some people seem to have a much higher propensity towards having Kidney stones? I have known people who have had Kidney Stones and it seems like it's a recurring problem with them. One friend even had some kind of wire device implanted in his Kidney his problem was so bad at times. Can you please comment?
Yes they can have metabolic or genetic abnormalities that make it more likely for them to get recurrent kidney stones or sometimes it's due to dietary issues
@@RenaMalikMD Thank You Dr!! You are Awesome!! Looking forward to your next videos!! Happy New Year and have a Better 2021!!
Dr, Malik; I am wondering why the first test for kidney stones you mention is a CT scan w/o contrast. Why wouldn't you order a simple urine test (for blood) 1st. Seems awfully expensive for the patient to go right to a CT Scan.
A urinalysis wouldn't confirm a kidney stone,blood in the urine can be due to other causes and if you suspect a kidney stone you should do some imaging, can do a renal ultrasound or x-ray which are less expensive but less sensitive
As a kidney stone breeder I hate those! Why have they disappeared since 2009?
As I have 1 kidney and ckd- and 6 pyeloplasties- I end up with pcnl surgery
Yes that makes sense! Pcnl sounds like the right thing for you! Sorry you've had so many issues.
Dr? when I had kidney stones they inserted a Stent in my eurethra and left it there for like a week and when I used to pee it would go to my kidney, is that normal procedure and why? 👎😕
I had it this morning. Painful
Watching this making me drinking alot
Hmmm the nausea and vomiting is an interesting effect... presumably this is from the pain response? I ... hm.. actually probably there's something about this in the textbooks behind me - will have to look later when I wake up lol
It's because the nerves of the renal pelvis which gets stretched when a kidney stone blocks the urine drainage are along the same pathway as the stomacn and intetines causing the nausea and vomiting symptoms.
@@RenaMalikMD Oh that is super interesting - I wonder if this functions as a kind of 'distress' signal response of the enteric nervous system... since it is functionally promoting an emetic response and aversion to further eating... I wonder if something similar would happen if say you couldn't poop.... (checks) Ah! Yep! Oh that's so cool!!
Thanks for the reply, Rena! Not enough time in the world to study all the things!
I had kidney stones and it felt like someone was pushing their fist forcefully through my side and wouldn't let up.
I remember when I was a little kid, the Mohel (ritual circumciser) of our community got a kidney stone and collapsed during Synagogue
Woah!
He wasn't preforming a bris I hope.
I had the classic kidney stone pain and they did a ct but couldn't see one so they just sent me home in crazy pain till i came back a week later were they told I did have but one. At this point I wasn't keeping anything down and felt absolutely horrible but the surgeon suggested I go home and wait for it to pass. He never mentioned giving any medication that would help it pass but I was in too much pain so I said I wanted surgery. Anyways after surgery he talks to my mom and says oh good thing we did surgery your kidney stone was stuck and was probably causing you a lot of pain. I really wish I had a better doctor at that moment
Sorry to hear that. It's rare that kidney stones don't show up on ct scan.
I know I am late to the party but I'd really like to know if it's easier for women to pass kidney stones than men?
No difference in passage rate based on gender!
@@lucaverhaeghe875 studies show that women tolerate pain better than men but that doesn't mean it is less painful for women.
@@lucaverhaeghe875 pain is generally a really subjective experience. it's interesting to see men try the "labor simulators" because it seems like they can't really handle it that well compared to women. It's also interesting to hear the testimony of women who've both given birth and passed kidney stones. Those women usually say the pain of KS's are either comparable or worse than labor, so I'm assuming that KS's are felt very similarly to both men and women, whereas labor pain is better handled by women.
Is there an episode where joey gets a hernia? That was really funny
Laser Moses treatment and never have to pass one.
What ever happened nothing goes up
How many are watching this video after being diagnosed with kidney stones?
Never had kidney stones, but gallbladder stones feel like ur dying
ouch!
Omg passing is way more painful, just laser the hell out of it, pew pew. It’s like a peeing razors.
Another hilarious video about kidney stones is done by Jeff Foxworthy. It is hilarious.
😂 I get oxylate based stones often so this had me cracking up. I remember my very first one my response to the ER doctor was, “But I’m a girl...kidney stones are a guy thing!” These days I’m thankful there is always Flomax in my medicine cabinet. Especially just a few days ago when another one decided it was tired of my kidney and wanted to move out. Twenty-seven hours later I breathed a huge sigh of relief one weirdly shaped 5x4x4 got added to my photo collection. 😂😂😂
Glad you passed it!!
Wow, that's friggin horrible. Still, it can't be worse than a migraine or a tooth abscess.
Can't personally compare but all 3 are pretty awful
I’ve had migraines, root canals, bones broken in half, ovarian cysts and kidney stones. Can confirm that nothing has touched kidney stones when it comes to pain.
They are so pain-full I almost got sick,then I could barely move,then I layed there for two weeks with two strings hanging out of penis,,,
This past month I got a kidney stone and the emergency room thought it was a 4mm stone but I ended up having a emergency surgery and my urologist said my stone ended up being a 6mm stone that I most likely wouldn’t pass it. I got a stent for 2 weeks then I got my stent and stone removed last week but my urologist put a new stent back in for a week to make sure i don’t get a infection with me being only 17 .
Hope you are feeling better now!
you can't say penis?