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    9 months ago

    I had this happen to me last year (kidney stone). Holy shitballs on crutches. It was the most pain I have ever been in. And I have had all sorts of injuries and surgeries. This topped it all by far far far. I actually passed out from the pain. I was in the ER with pain managing medication for about 6 hours and then 1 minutes to the next gone. Not like oh it’s receding… Gone like it was never there. And I felt 100% fine after. I felt embarrassed because I still had a bunch of doctors looking out for me and I was fine.

    Oh and if you are a human with balls, the pain also radiates to this zone and it feels like someone is kicking you in the balls repeatedly with no rest between kicks. It suuuuucks.

    And before you say ‘feels like labor’ naaaah I talked to several moms who have had many kids and they also agree. This is waaay worse.

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      Its legit no joke… I went in to the ER with a ‘no narcotics’ mindset as I was just over 3 years sober… The nurses knew it was kidney stones immediatley and literally laughed in my face, albeit nicely, when I said ‘no narcotics’. They advised I take the narcotics.

      I took the non narcotic option and fast forward 30 minutes… The pain was so bad I just threw up in my lap mid sentence and passed out right infront of my partner and two nurses.

      They brought me the narcotics after that.

      0/10, would not recommend kidney stones.

    • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      yeah, kidney and gall stones are two of the things where answering 10 on the pain scale is fully accepted by doctors, nurses and everyone who has ever experienced them. source: gall stones. i legit needed help dressing up for the ambulance ride.

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      9 months ago

      omg im so sorry :(

      Alpha chads induce kidney stones to flex on beta mothers 💪 🐺

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      “Feels like labor” doesn’t hold up in a bunch of places. I met plenty of women going for 2nd, 3rd, 4th pregnancies. I ain’t never heard a man say “Kick me in the balls again.”

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    I had my first kidney stone at 18. Mine was made of calcium. My doctor asked how often I drank energy drinks and how much spinach I ate. I said a lot of both and he said pump the breaks. I stopped with the Rockstars but kept the spinach because it was obviously the energy drinks because they’re so bad for you. Four years later I’m getting surgery for my third stone. Guess who doesn’t eat spinach (or Tums) now?

    Not medical advice. There’s a variety of stone types and innumerable causes that are poorly understood. Comics and memes are also not medical advice.

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    9 months ago

    I once won a bike in a punch card raffle for drinking as much monster as I do. No kidney stones yet, just a full immunity to the positive effects of caffeine and the constant threat from my body to never stop drinking them or else my head will implode from withdrawal.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, good luck finding the energy to that or literally anything else without stimulants.

        Or is that just me?

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            Yes. I started drinking them maybe 20 years ago and the benefits of drinking them, both then and now, far outweigh any negatives. Turns out stimulants are extremely helpful for people with (at the time) undiagnosed ADHD.

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    I LOVE TAURINE, I’M SO HAPPY I CAN DRINK PIG LIVER EXTRACT IN TASTY LIQUID FORM

    GONE ARE THE DAYS OF RELYING ON RAW EGGS FOR MY MEAT EXCLUSIVE AMINO ACIDS