Encouragement is useless to me right now - anyone got good hate names for kidney stones?
Stone Fighter #D39453Oct 6, 2026👁️ 1.4k❤️ 140- Strategy
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Currently I am 10 hours out from removal, stints are a bitch. Couldn't pass a 4mm stone so surgery it is, apparently my body likes to make the spiky kind.
This group has given me a bunch of things that help. Flomax continues until after the stint is out. Ibuprofen and Tylenol and stool softeners. The only advice I missed was the AZO one (partner is currently on a late night trip to Walgreens to fix that).
I'm sitting here cursing my kidney stone and now the lack of a stone and the bitch needs a proper name. I would take ideas for cursing I've been calling her Dottie(Armageddon reference) lol. Anyone around to commiserate while going through this tonight?
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Stone Fighter #B1A014Oct 6, 2026Not tonight, but tomorrow I will. This is my first stone ever. And she doesn’t want to come out on her own. Going in for surgery in the morning
Stone Fighter #D39453Oct 6, 2026Oh I will hand over all my sympathy pain, I have plenty to spare. This is only my second one and both times were removal and I dreaded it so hard. We will both be way on the other side soon, just not as soon as we would like.
Stone Fighter #14E681Oct 6, 2026I started naming them after my ex's, but then I had way too many stones so now I just call them bastards
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