AKA “Why You Should Be Good to Your Kidneys” (or, “Why I’ve Been Complaining So Much on Twitter“)
The past two weeks or so have been spent in varying degrees of physical discomfort, all because of a stubborn little stone that formed in my kidney. For most people, the ordeal would have quickly been wrapped up in a few days, but as it turns out, I needed to undergo shock wave lithotripsy in order to resolve mine. What’s thrown a wrench in the entire recovery process though is the fact that apparently, I am sensitive or just seriously allergic to ALL PAINKILLERS. The doctors will prescribe one thing, only to have to add on another medication to combat the effects of the first one, and then when it turns out neither of them are working for the better, the whole process has to be repeated again. In the meantime, I am often in violent amounts of pain while combating allergic reactions and frequent spasms.
This morning I woke up at 4am and was in serious distress vomiting and whatnot until about 10, at which point I fell into an exhausted sleep for a few hours. Now that I’ve determined that I can again keep fluids down, I have gone back to drinking copious amounts of liquids and am resting outside to try and regain some energy, or at the least, peace. Although almost every other day has consisted of doctor visits, today I’ve been rather fragile so we’re just monitoring my status closely.
Having visited doctors many a time over the past few years, I’m extremely tired of being sick by now. Since it isn’t clear what my kidney stone was caused by exactly (with one possibility being the medications I had to rotate through last year) , I’m just trying to be more vigilant about all aspects of diet and exercise in general, although the latter hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet, due to my often being on bed rest. I cannot wait until I’m better again.
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Oh no! That sounds pretty painful actually. Especially with the whole pain meds issue. I have no idea what I’d do without them when dealing with some of my own health issues.
I hope the treatment works though, and hey trying to improve your diet is a great way to prevent it from happening again.
Good luck :S Do you know when they’ll be able to do it?
Whoops, I initially didn’t make this clear in the post, but I’ve already had the surgery last week and actually, the recovery’s what I’ve mainly been having a hard time with, since it’s turned out to be just as bad as pre-procedure!
Oh, you poor thing. I’ve had kidney stones before and it’s agony.
Feel better soon.
V xx
Oh, dear. That sounds just awful. I’m sorry the recovery is just as bad as the experience. Hopefully it will all be over soon. Take it easy, and feel better soon.
Ha ha ha thank you for that link. it was awesome
As for kidney stones, I know how painful they are and I can’t believe they’ve kept you so sick of this long
I hope the doctors figure out what caused them hun..
Much love.
Wow kidney stone alluding to a chain reaction of medications to counteract allergic reactions and still fight your stone-aftermath doesn’t sound very impressive or enjoyable! Keep drinking the fluids so you don’t dehydrate! I hope you feel better too and take care!
I’ve never had kidney stones but my father has and I know they are painful because he actually went to the doctor.
Hope you feel better sooN!