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chepox ,

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.

spujb OP ,

omg im so sorry :(

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

Patches ,

"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."

drathvedro ,

I heard women are wired to forget the experience, because otherwise we'd go extinct as nobody would ever want to go through it after the first time.

EldritchFeminity ,

I think it's like moments after the birth that the body is flooded with feel-good hormones that do exactly that - make you forget how painful and horrible the whole thing was and only remember how great being a new mother feels.

oatscoop ,
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The brain dumps a shit load of hormones to take the edge off the (frankly, horrific) process of giving birth.

The sudden imbalance after pregnancy and labor is suspected to be a causative factor in post-partum mood disorders.

MBM ,

What if I gave you ten dollars?

Zozano ,

I mean, I've seen videos of guys who pay good money for a nice girl to do all sorts of painful things to an unsuspecting testicle or two.

So, they do exist..

Liz ,

I always roll my eyes at this joke because a kick in the balls doesn't come with a built-in reward. It's apples and oranges.

improbablypoopingrn ,

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.

itsnotits ,

It's* legit no joke

seliaste ,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It makes me so scared of getting any...

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Remember to drink water.

seliaste ,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I drink a lot of water and don't eat meat so I guess I already check some prevention tips

jose1324 ,

Anything else? I already drink enough it comes out clear

a_wild_mimic_appears ,

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.

DillyDaily ,

I had read so many comments on line about how intensely painful gallstone are, and how that pain is no joke.

I was in my second year of nursing school and the chronic niggling abdominal pain I'd had for several months changed in an instant to the most crippling colicky pain I had ever felt. I swear it radiated throughout my entire body. The way it "gripped" in my entire torso made me feel like my heart was seizing, but it was just my gallbladder full of stones.

I knew immediately what it was. I'd been ignoring the niggling pain because I had stage 4 endometriosis at the time so abdominal pain wasn't unusual. And it's a common phenomenon for medical students and nursing students to experience strange pshycogenic symptoms, especially as they learn about a new disease, and the niggling pain had started around the same time I was doing my unit on biliary and hepatic anatomy and physiology, so when my gallbladder was "grumbling" I just assumed I was imagining it.

I booked into my GP, who instantly agreed it sounded like gallstones, she ordered an ultrasound and liver function test. My gallbladder was full of stones, most were tiny, 2-3mm, but there were 4 chonky bois, and my Liver function test was all sorts of abnormal.

Up until this point, everyone had treated this very seriously. My GP was rushing around like it was urgent, when I told my teachers at nursing school that I'll likely need time off because I was dealing with gallstones they all acted like it was a catagory 2 emergency, and everyone had this assumption that in less than 2 months I'd be gallbladder-less.

I was referred for surgery. That was April, I got my intake letter and my surgery was scheduled for October.

So I spent the next 6 months in occasional agony. I was lucky that I'd get a solid 3-4 days without pain, and then I'd get an "attack" that would last a few hours but fade out.

But as it got closer to October, the attacks were lasting over 2 days, by the end I was delirious. I went to the ER twice out of desperation. Both times they gave me buscopan and told me to go home and wait for my surgery. My GP prescribed me some muscle relaxants which helped a bit.

On the night before my surgery, I was having the worse pain of the whole ordeal by far. I was fasting for surgery so I couldn't take the pain relief my GP had prescribed because it was an oral tablet. I wasn't getting any sleep, so I just went to the hospital at 2am (instead of 8am for my surgery).

I went to the ER and explained that my surgery was in the morning, I'm fasting so can't take my meds, but the pain is unbearable. They gave me, you guessed it, buscopan. I sat in the waiting room and at 7:45am said goodbye and walked over to the day surgery wing.

Everyone I told was baffled, saying gallstones were so incredibly painful there's no way I'd have to wait that long for surgery and not get proper pain relief while I waited. Even my GP was confused, I saw her once a fortnight between August and October because I was just in such a sorry state. My skin was yellow, I was shitting clay, I couldn't keep much food down, I'd lost a lot of weight. My GP would spend most of the appointment on the phone with the surgical intake team asking "what the fuck?"

But 9 years after my surgery, my best friend started getting gallbladder attacks. She went to the ER, they confirmed the stones with an ultrasound, and they referred her for surgery. 2 months later she still hadn't gotten her intake letter, so when she had another bad attack she went to the ER and they gave her buscopan and advil and told her to be patient, the surgical list is backed up. She got her letter a few days after that, surgery was booked for August.

She scrounged together some money to see a private surgeon, she saw him on February 10th, and she had her gallbladder removed on February 15th, and they sent her home with endone for the 5 days between. It took a chunk out of the savings that she and her partner want to use for a house deposit, but there's no way she could have made it to August with how much pain she was in.

chepox ,

Wow. That sounds awful. Sorry you had to love through all that for such a long time.

brognak ,

Sounds similar to my experience, but I was told multiple times by my GP that it was really bad heart burn. He held that line for 8ish months until I had an attack so bad I drove myself to the ER at 2am (the morning they caught the Boston Marathon bombers, watching the coverage rocking in pain in an ER waiting room is a core memory now).

When I finally got seen I said I felt bad that it was just bad heart burn, so they gave me liquid pepcid and left me alone for 10 minutes. When they came back to check on me, I was obviously still in pain so they pressed around my abdomen and as soon as they hit the area near my gallbladder I almost jumped off the gurney.

30 minutes later I had an ultrasound, and I was extremely pregnant with gallstones and it was on the verge of rupturing. I was in surgery a couple hours later.

All of this to say, if you or anyone you know who had their gallbladder removed and are now having horrible GI issues (especially after first meal of the dag) talk to your GP about Cholestyramine. It's for cholesterol, but it's binds to and neutralizes stomach bile which is getting dumped into your upper intestine since there's not the buffer of your gallbladder anymore. Utterly changed my life years after surgery, could finally go out to eat breakfast without worrying about shitting my pants. Ironically it was the doctor who misdiagnosed me who finally recommended it when I started seeing him again (moved away like 6mo after surgery, boomeranged back years later.

DillyDaily ,

Thank you!

I've had bike acid diarrhoea/malabsorbtion (BAM) almost every day since my surgery and my GP has said it's to be expected because I had inflammatory bowel disease and my deodeunum is the most effected so it's the reason I get gastric motility issues (some days I get gastric dumping, some days I have gastroparesis)

My doctor has just been changing my immunosuppression therapy trying to find the formulation and dose to reduce my BAM.

But it sounds like I need something to bind or neutralise the bile in addition to treating the IBD. I can't believe my GP never suggested it, I'm definitely going to be asking if it's worth trying.

TheControlled ,

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.

Patches , (edited )

Could it have also been the Tums? Those aren't something you should be regularly ingesting.

TheControlled ,

Hmm, I suspected. That's why I said I mostly stopped using them. I started taking Nexium everyday and I usually never have to.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

I have never heard spinach attributed to kidney stones before. Is it true?

stoned_ape ,

Calcium means the stones are calcium oxalate which comes from having too much oxalates in your diet

I get recurring kidney stones which are from oxalates and sodium

I keep my oxalate intake per day under 40mg

Spinach has 755 mg per HALF CUP!

Fuck spinach

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Noooo it's yummy

CallMeButtLove ,

Just had my 3rd surgery too a few weeks ago. I don't eat spinach but I drink a shit load of milk. They're going to do a metabolic workup on me to try and get some answers.

TheControlled ,

They captured the stone?

CallMeButtLove ,

No they lasered it into pieces and removed it. The metabolic workup is going to be a week long urine capture, diet log, and I'm sure a few other things.

TheControlled ,

Yeah, that's what happened to me the 2nd stone. 3rd one they ultrasounded it and netted it.

I know your pain, man. 😢

fishbone ,

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.

i_ben_fine ,

When society collapses, caffeine withdrawal is the first reason I'll want to off myself.

fishbone ,

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

Or is that just me?

Random_German_Name ,

You guys definitely have an addiction

m12421k ,

nothing like that. It's just, the aroma of tea in the morning is a good way of starting your day. It's so good. try it. I only drink 5 6 mugs of tea a day. so it's not like addiction or anything.

i_ben_fine ,

Correct.

fishbone ,

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.

FiniteBanjo ,

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

AlligatorBlizzard ,

For anyone curious, the taurine in energy drinks is almost certainly lab created, not pig liver or bull testicles or whatever. Still funny though.

seliaste ,
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Thanks, I was pretty sure monster is vegetarian-friendly

alx ,
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But monster is owned by pepsico, the genocide-friendly mega Corp :(
Steal monster or buy something else

seliaste ,
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Like Redbull? Im pretty sure it's even worse

alx ,
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i’m interested if you have any source about this

seliaste ,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

none, actually curious

FiniteBanjo ,

I feel like synthetic taurine is a lot less available than actual pig liver, since the latter is an underused byproduct of a massive industry. I would be happy if I were wrong.

apemint ,
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Synthetic taurine is everywhere, just search Amazon. It's sold alongside vitamins.

FiniteBanjo ,

That is fair I give you that, but being sold on Amazon is no indication of the legitimacy of a product, tbh.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Finding a good source for most of it being vegan is hard, the best I've found so far is Healthline claiming "The form of taurine used in supplements and energy drinks is usually synthetic, meaning it’s not derived from animals."

And Monster energy is definitely synthetic taurine according to their faq.

FiniteBanjo ,

That's good to know. I wonder if this means we're on our way to truly vegan dog food in the future.

wallmenis ,

I have a friend that this happened to them. Now they are ok.

spujb OP ,

thats good

Custoslibera ,

If this is a femboy then it’s SFW.

If this is a woman then it’s NSFW.

I don’t make the rules.

tubaruco ,

ive seen women wear less when going to school, should i mark them nsfw?

EldritchFeminity ,

Nah, I'm sure the principal is already spanking reprimanding them for distracting the boys and teachers with their "hot underage bodies."

Regalia ,
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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8f7bddcb-1f18-4637-93b0-33548386e459.png

tubaruco ,

sadly, theyre always there... they said they would do something about it, but have never done anything

now staying alone with my gf in the classroom right before class ? (we were 10 mins early) thats gonna get us in trouble

Honytawk ,

Most schoolgirls should definitely be sfw.

Gabu ,

Are you pro-child labor or some shit?

Mac ,

lmao

Or maybe the w should be generally sf anyone and everyone

GluWu ,

Still came either way

The_Che_Banana ,
@The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org avatar

the hell is wrong with those hips?

spujb OP ,

not enough monster energy

ininewcrow ,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

Scoliosis

EldritchFeminity ,

That's how you know it was drawn by a self-taught artist and not AI generated.

Smorty ,

What do you mean?

Riven ,
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Do you mind elaborating? I actually don't know what you mean but I'm also a moron.

The_Che_Banana ,
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The drawing on the right kind of looks like she is bending slightly forward (but not?), making the shorts look weirdly small/awkwardly placed...it's kind of like when someone paints a portrait and one of the subjects eyes are wonky in the photo so the artist keeps it that way- but in reality our brains adjust the picture so we normally dont notice something like that.

or i could be just talking out of my ass

Riven ,
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Ah I sorta see what you mean with the slightly bending forward.

Zozano ,

I think it makes a little more sense when you consider this as the boys perspective.

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