Why not?
My advice is NOT to put it off. Especially if there is a family history of kidney stones.
Don't forget, they grow, or certainly can do. And the smaller one is, the easier it is to treat. These days many can be destroyed without making any surgical incision using ultrasound pulses to smash them to bits small enough to be passed.
But the more you wait, the less viable you make that option. As for incapacitating, I have never had one myself...and don't want any either, but I have often seen it described in pretty horrific terms, such as being shot, breaking bones, hell, even being set on fire or flayed alive.
Ultrasound treatment basically zaps the buggers in situ, using high frequency sound waves, and causes them to break down to sand/small gravel.
Of course, nobody wants to piss out a builder's yard, but better that trying to piss something like this out:
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And as I said, what starts as a small bit of insoluble crap, oxalates, calcium etc. provides a seed crystal for more such garbage to use as a nucleation site and thus grow larger. Stones have to be got at early for the quick and easy, nonsurgical option. IIRC 2cm is the cutoff point.
After that its surgery, although there are various kinds on procedure.
Ultrasound treatment apparently can often be done on an outpatient basis.
Why do you say you don't have time to see a dr about it? it doesn't make any logical sense, when all the alternatives mean much more time lost. Not to mention a whole load of absolute screaming agony.
Not sure about you, but when I read, on an otherwise sober and intended as factual site, such as wikipedia, about something being described as one of the most severe pains a human body is capable of feeling (the article on renal colic), that makes me want damn well never to have it happen to me.
Don't forget either, that kidney stones are capable of causing permanent damage to renal function in severe cases.
If you do find you have one or more stones, make sure to find out what kind they are, the chemical (and lets hope not, but i some cases, bacteriological contamination), as the mode of formation affects both treatment options and the maintenance medication that may or may not be needed to prevent a recurrence of the stone; a not all that unlikely prospect if you have a known familial tendency.
All the more so, if there is also a tendency towards developing gout, i which case, urate stones are very common.
And from what I read, if ignored until a kidney abscess develops, you would be rolling around on the floor screaming like a baby, and begging for directions to dignitas :/
Just get it checked out sooner rather than later.
http://www.montereybayurology.com/urocond/KidneyStones.htmHope you and the nipper are doing ok miss K *hugs*
