I rarely get more than 1.5 2hrs max - Hoping that will change in
next couple of weeks as got an op on my kidney to remove the 2
stents that have been in since February & are aggravating my
kidney I'm pissing out a lot of blood when I pee.
Plus remove a big stone sat right in the middle of my kidney.
I'm damn knackered all the time.
I would advise ureteroscopy before keyhole surgery. You say you already have stents, so that makes the surgery easier. The shock wave lithotripsy is an alternative, but you will feel like Mike Tyson used your lower back and kidney as a punching bag. Especially if the stone is bigger than average. (Over 4.5)
Kidney stones are no joke. In 2015 I was on a flight back from Narita and we were over the ocean with 6 hours to go when some guy in the back decided this would be the most appropriate time to pass his kidney stone. I was up front in business class with my headphones on and noticed people turning around and looking behind us and flight attendants standing in the aisle looking back. I took off my headphones and despite that guy being wayyyyy in the back, you could hear him wail and cry. It was the most agonizing sound I have ever heard. And there was nothing they could do at that point but fly on. We were too far from Narita and nowhere to divert the plane to fast except LAX which was the closest, but still hours away. That guy was in such pain. He wanted to die. Literally. He said so himself. "I want to die, God please let me die". (By the time we reached LAX everyone else on the plane wanted him to die too) They ended up taking him in the back and laying him out flat on the galley floor, but there was nothing else they could do but heat up water bottles and giving him a big dose of Tylenol and ibuprofen. When we landed and the paramedics came on and wheeled him off, he was probably in his early 50s. Drenched in sweat and hyperventilating.
This episode bothered me so much that on the very next trip I took to India, I bought a bottle of Morphine Sulfate 20mg/ml and 20 tabs of Oxycontin to pack in my travel bags as a safe guard if I were ever overseas somewhere and had an accident or injury or whatever, I wouldn't have to wait hours and hours for treatment or pain relief.
