OT: Things are progressing nicely.

Kathy, I don't normally read the OT topics (no time). I stumbled across yours because it happened to be the first message on the list and appeared in my preview window. My heart goes out to you!

I've known several people who had kidney stones, and everyone one of them said that they were the most painful thing they've ever experienced. At least one of these people *really* knows pain because she was once in an awful fire. She was burned over much of her body, but she told me that her kidney stones were more painful than the recovery from her burns.

I am ****so**** sorry that you've had to go through this! I wish you the fastest of recoveries now that you've been properly diagnosed. I just wish your doctors could have found this out sooner.

Kathy -

Glad to hear things are progressing in a positive manner. When next you meet with your urologist, please ask him if you should start taking a daily dose of allopurinal. It is a compound that prevents the buildup of purines in the blood and is a cheap medication used to prevent kidney stones and also, gout. Jon used to have horrible gout problems, then he started taking allopurinal and avoiding spinach, and all is well.

Take care, Barbara

You have my complete sympathy. I suffer frequent stones too.

Now...if you can get that stone....and a slingshot.....and aim it at your PCP....pull....steady...fire! When he says "OUCH!"....you respond.."Its all in your head, suck it up sucker!"

Janet R

be careful, tho. Stones are caused by a couple different chemicals in the body. DH has to be on a medication (can't for the life of me remember the name at the moment), but it had nothing to do with purines. It was an excess of a chemical which binds with another chemical (the one that dh's body doesn't make) that caused his!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]They have also promised that ]if they can't get the stuff done right away, I will be prescribed ]adequate pain relief, "because no one should be walking around with ]the pain of kidney stones." ] ]Except me, for a year. (Don't get me started) I also saw my ]pulmonologist (every doc in the world has to okay me before I get ]anesthesia - the cardiologist is on Friday), and he's very, very ]upset with my PCP. I said I wouldn't tell what he thinks of the PCP, ]but it rhymes with "grasshole" and "son of a switch."

and make sure and have him write a scathing letter to your insurance company AND copy it to the PCP!

it never dawned on me that all those tests hadn't already been run!!!!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Janet R" :

]Now...if you can get that stone....and a slingshot.....and aim it at ]your PCP....pull....steady...fire! When he says "OUCH!"....you ]respond.."Its all in your head, suck it up sucker!"

ROTFLOL! SECONDED!

Thank the universe that youre finally going to get the help you need. Just think, you may even get to sleep soon! Wow.. novel concept, pain relief. Gahhhh.. anyway... prayers going out that your surgery is fast, uncomplicated and you are home recovering uneventfully asap! Diana

Kathy,

I can't believe how fast this is all progressing!

This is so great!

marisa2

Kathy N-V wrote:

I'm so glad you've been diagnosed and in the process of being treated. I had a kidney stone many, many years ago and it's definitely painful. I was told the only thing comparable, pain-wise, is labor pains. Never being pregnant, I couldn't compare the two. (((((Kathy)))))

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Kathy,

I'm so glad things seem to be moving in the right direction for you!

I described how I am totally involved in my little world, even though I rarely get out, and he told me that was about the healthiest solution he could think of. After that, he said to forget about the shrink.>

yeah -- good friends are always cheaper than a shrink....

I have to ditto his opionion of your PCP

for gawd's sake - besides the lawyer - report this total idiot to the state medical board -- he deserves to have his license pulled for this crap..

AND -- TELL THEM THAT THEY MUST REMOVE ALL MENTION FROM YOUR RECORD of any time or place that he inferred your pain was MENTAL and you want to see the records - yourself ..... NO_ better YET -- REQUIRE THAT HE write a letter to EVERY DOCTOR you have seen for the past year

-- acknowledging that your pain was real - and caused by kidney stones , and retracting his statements about your mental state.... and informing them that the copy of the letter must be placed in your permanent record at any and all offices maintaining records. Cheryl DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

Too true - just mentioned it so that Kathy knew to ask about it.

B.

I could slap that son of a switch for you. Gads! Kidney stones are so easily cured and it's such a simple test. Grrrrrrrrrrr for you Kathy.

OMTP

Vibes incoming for a quick OK from all the docs and a very successful surgery (or whatever they decide you need). Sounded like the urologist was talking surgery. Got my prayer fingers crossed for you!

Vicki V

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.combeads (Cheryl) :

]for gawd's sake - besides the lawyer - report this total idiot to the state ]medical board -- he deserves to have his license pulled for this crap.. ] ]AND -- TELL THEM THAT THEY MUST REMOVE ALL MENTION FROM YOUR RECORD of any time ]or place that he inferred your pain was MENTAL ]and you want to see the records - yourself ..... ]NO_ better YET -- ]REQUIRE THAT HE write a letter to EVERY DOCTOR you have seen for the past year ]-- acknowledging that your pain was real - and caused by kidney stones , and ]retracting his statements about your mental state.... ]and informing them that the copy of the letter must be placed in your permanent ]record at any and all offices maintaining records.

ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. OMTP. WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THIS DONE, KATHY!!!!!

Finally, the pain relief you should have had a YEAR ago! And I hope every doc you come in contact with reports your PCP to whoever it is who would be responsible for bringing punitive action against him.

-Kalera

RIGHTEOUS, Cheryl!

-Kalera

Yes! Absolutely.

He should be stopped before he puts anyone else through that kind of pain.

-Su

This all sounds very promising, I hope things progress smoothly and you see positive results from treatment very, very soon.