I am terrified of kidney stones?
Sep 06, 2010
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Kidney Stone Pain Questions
I am 16 years old and I have read enough about kidney stones to be terrified of them. No one in my family has ever had them (as far as I know), but is there any way to decrease my chances of getting them?
I’m not scared of dying, I know they’re not fatal. I’m scared of the pain!
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5 comments
Helios on September 6, 2010 at 2:28 am
I guess they’re painful as hell. A friend of mine gets them from time to time. He was told not to eat chocolate, nuts or spinach…. There’s an odd trio. But I’m sure that differs for each person.
Good news though… a kidney stone is a hunk of crystal – calcium mostly (I think) – and it rings at a certain frequency. And the clever doctors have built a machine which can generate the opposite wave – and they point that through your body at the kidney stone and it causes the stone to break up.
nice, hu? so they’re really not the big pain the back they used to be.
AND if nobody in your family has them, your chance of getting them at all are very slim.
Vera Rose on September 6, 2010 at 2:28 am
In truth I don’t know much about then-But I’ve never heard of someone dying because of kidney stones, they can be removed.
Don’t worry, just go ask a actual doctor on your next check-up (there’s no rush).
TheDude on September 6, 2010 at 2:28 am
Eat healthy?
I know there is one thing that increases the chances of it, its on Wikipedia, so avoid that.
But with today’s modern technology kidney stones is like having a bad stomach ache (but more blinding in pain).
You go to the hospital, they radiate you, and you piss it out, done.
Nothing to be scared off
J on September 6, 2010 at 2:28 am
I’ve heard that drinking orange juice lowers your risk of forming kidney stones.
Anyway, why are you so afraid of kidney stones? I mean, there are tons of worse things that could happen to you like cancer or something.
rfoster1987 on September 6, 2010 at 2:28 am
Drink a lot a water. There are worse pains out there than kidney stones, like foley catheters.