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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

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ORIGINAL: areallivehuman

Old timer "natural" cure: 2 ounces lemon juice mixed with 2 ounces of extra virgin olive oil. Twice a day, 2 or 3 days. Not as nasty as it sounds, and it has worked for me.  

There are two kinds of stones...calcium and uric acid. This "cure" might work with uric acid stones, the pharma cure is a slightly acidic powder, I forget the name. The olive oil wont do anything for either kind of stone.

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ORIGINAL: DomImus

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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
Is that the stone?? That must have torn up your urethra something good! You must experienced so much bleeding as well. How did they treat you after the stone came out? I honestly can't imagine anything that size passing through your urethra.

I would say the same thing looking at it - I was shocked when I saw it. It was probably a small stone that never passed out of my bladder and became a bladder stone. I recall feeling something odd in my pelvis (not painful or even discomfort) sometime shortly after the holidays. The stone passed in August. My guess is that is exited the bladder after the holidays and it took that long to make its way out. It looks really jagged in the picture but it's actually rather rounded around its circumference. The jagged ones are the ones that stop and lodge and cause all of the problems. The ones they have to go in and retrieve.

Very minor bleeding (more seepage than anything) for 3-4 hours then it was bedtime. Fine the next day. No treatment. It passed on Sunday. It positioned itself Friday in such a way that it partially slowed urine flow and I said I would give it til Monday and if it didn't pass I would go to the doctor. I really hate doctors. I am doing better with that these days but back then, no. Luckily it made the deadline.

As far as passing stuff through the urethra goes, I have a dommé friend who has a set of sounds that make that stone look like a walk in the park. [:)]

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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
I do recall a time when I was in the E.R. (as a patient) and there was a guy hollering, who was passing a stone (much like the scenario zeph described). He commented to a nurse about the pain saying something along the lines of having an idea what childbirth pain must be like for women. The nurse wasn't impressed and just said "uh no". *LOL*

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ORIGINAL: DomImus

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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
I do recall a time when I was in the E.R. (as a patient) and there was a guy hollering, who was passing a stone (much like the scenario zeph described). He commented to a nurse about the pain saying something along the lines of having an idea what childbirth pain must be like for women. The nurse wasn't impressed and just said "uh no". *LOL*

I obviously have no direct experience but a woman I know who is both a mom and a kidney stone sufferer said they are pretty close. I'm thinking that she has had really easy childbirths and really painful kidney stones. They hurt, but somehow I think childbirth is worse. The hard and very painful part for me is getting them through the ureter between the kidney and the bladder. Once in the bladder I've never really had a problem (so far) even with the one in the picture.

Urethral sounds are devices use to dilate the urethra for medical purposes.