7mm extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) Tuesday. Can I race saturday? DAMN. I have had trouble going hard this year could this be the problem ?
7mm extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) Tuesday. Can I race saturday? DAMN. I have had trouble going hard this year could this be the problem ?
Yes, and not likely unless you couldn’t go hard secondary to excruciating pain…
Hope you’re feeling better!
Jodi
Could it have caused problems with hydration. I seem to be having problems over heating like hydration is off.
dude, that is crazy. I just passed one myself last week (excrutiating pain came out of nowhere and made me throw up). 2 mm for me!
good luck.
women who have had them told me kidney stones are worse than babies…
drink lots of water. I would at least try to race…but that is me. Is it local or far away?
Unlikely. But I’m also not a nephrologist. One kidney does a pretty good job at managing fluid status. Even if you’ve been completely obstructed on the other side. Is your renal function normal?
Jodi
Sprint tri-100 miles away. Normal everything. Passed them before. No pain yet went in for check-up and found it. Keep fingers crossed !!!
Lithotripsy is like getting jabbed in the back with an unsharpened pencil once per second for an hour. You’ll be bruised and a little sore. You also might have fragments that didn’t get fully fractured that can pass, but will take time (and pain) to do so. Stay home I’d suggest.
Had one last year. Train and race in very hot conditions and am not the best at hydrating before/during workouts. My dr. is on my back constantly about hydration as this seems to be the cause. The only thing I took from having the stone is that any pain i feel from racing can’t possibly compare to the stone so i just push on through. I’d be willing to bet that you will find the intensity again now that that thing is out of you. I know I did.
When I had my stone, I had ureteroscopy to pull it out. Fall semester, senior year of college. Pain was so bad I had to miss finals. When the stent was in, I could barely move.
With that being my only point of reference, my answer would be hell no to racing a couple days later. I have no idea about ESWL.
After I had the same procedure, I passed all 11mm of mine (2 small stones, one 7mm) that night and the next morning. I was feeling 100% in 48 hours. You should be able to race.
For the few weeks leading up to the diagnoses and surgery I was extremely sluggish, especially the last few days.
dude, that is crazy. I just passed one myself last week (excrutiating pain came out of nowhere and made me throw up). 2 mm for me!
good luck.
**women who have had them told me kidney stones are worse than babies… **
drink lots of water. I would at least try to race…but that is me. Is it local or far away?
totally disagree - 2 kids, no pain meds - definitely hurt. - kidney stone was nothing. (had them twice)
I had one a few years ago. The pain was unbelievable. My doc said the cause was chronic dehydration. Have not had one since.
I have had 4 of them. I’m a chick and I had completely natural childbirth - and YES, kidney stones are more painful than childbirth. Part of it is because it takes so damn long to pass them sometimes. I had one that took a month… I passed it 2 hours after running my first marathon. Thankfully it was a small one (3mm) and the pain was on and off and not terrible like some of them have been. The other ones were so painful that I threw up repeatedly and they gave me morphine in the hospital (thank you, Hot Male Nurse - I almost kissed him).
I have not had the treatment you’re planning - the small ones passed “naturally” (by naturally I mean with the help of Vicodin) and the larger one had to be removed (don’t ask how - suffice it to say I’m glad I was knocked out). I had to have a stent for that one because my kidney was not draining due to the swelling… What I do know about that treatment is that it doesn’t cause it to pass - it just breaks it up in to smaller pieces that can pass with less pain.
Anyway, enough with the war stories. Just had to establish credibility on the subject (which appears to be a must on this forum).
Once it passes (no matter how you get it to pass), you will feel fine. In fact, you will want to do a dance, hug everyone you know, and announce it to the world as if you had just given birth. Then you will triumphantly fish it out of the toilet and put it in a baggie to take it to your urologist!!
It should not cause a problem with hydration - in fact, you should be drinking enough to make you pee every 15 minutes!!! My urologist tells me that next time I have one (not an “if” but a “when”), she will prescribe Flomax - it’ll make me pee more and therefore help me pass it quicker.
Hope you have a good experience and HANG IN THERE!!! I know it SUCKS!!!
Last Spring, I was diagnosed with them in both kidneys. I had a bad habit of letting myself get dehydrated during long runs and rides. According to my urologist, it was going to be difficult/painful to pass them due to their size. I am also a private pilot and you can’t fly with stones. So, I had to do some sort of proactive treatment to eliminate them. For various reasons, the doc and I agreed to do a ureteroscopy to remove the largest stones on one side and litho the other side. The ureteroscopy and living with the stent installed afterward is something I will avoid if at all possible the next time around. Comparatively, the litho was a cakewalk. They gave me a mild sedative, wheeled me out to the trailer, I fell asleep, more or less, and woke up about 45 minutes later to be wheeled back to the recovery room for another hour. Over the next week or so, I peed out a few fragments with minor pain. If I had had a tri scheduled four days later, I don’t think it would have been a problem.
Good luck and don’t forget to stay hydrated!
Greg
Never had any treatment but last summer I had some strange back(ish) pains after runs for a month or so and then they seemed to stop…then I started to get these weird, horrible, cramp symptoms. Chalking it up to dehydration I pounded water and continued on. After having to stop walking and stand still in the middle of my kitchen I made an appt with Dr. Later that day I had to pee like never before, but couldn’t. So I stood, and waited until a pain hit me and I wanted to put my head through the wall. ‘Plink,’ then like it was like a waterfall. I flushed without thinking to bring the stone to the Dr. and passed a smaller one later in the day. Within two days I was back to normal; really it could have been the next day- I was just afraid to piss and took it easy. Doc did some tests and found crystals etc. told me to drink fluids and not get so dehydrated. After passing the stones I realized that with the sublte pains that I had been feeling for a while I had been catering to them, holding me back some. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if you see some increases after the stones piss off (out), if not from the stress relief alone.