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Originally Posted by captaintoad1
oh god i hope so lol could you imagine a guy passing a stone the size of a pencil eraser? lol oh don't make me laugh!!
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Not hard to imagine at all! I had several attacks a a couple years ago, and one was 8mm! They said any larger and it was knife time. After going to the emergency room in an ambulance I think four times, they scheduled me for a session where you sit in a puddle of conducting fluid (that made the electrical engineer part of me pay SERIOUS attention until they explained it was to conduct sound waves!) and shot sound pulses to break them up. They said it usually takes about 300-350 pulses. (I had about a dozen just waiting) but wound up being 3500! Talk about ya monkey butt!!
I kept having one every few months no matter what the doctors had me do, until an Indian Dr saw me drinking a coke. He said that was what was causing them, the combination of caffeine and carbonization. I was a coke-aholic! About 6-10 a day! I don't think I ever had a picture taken (even at my retirement!!) without a coke in my hand! I even got them for Christmas presents!
All the other Dr's said it had nothing to do with it. He was just a GP, and they were specialists. Who should I believe? Wrong. Kept having them, so I stopped my half case a day habit, and didn't have one for 6 months. Started drinking Tropicana Orangeade (still am). Only thing I could find I could stand! One day the store ran out, so I had just 2 SMALL cokes all day. That night I was in the emergency room with the 8mm one! Haven't had a coke since, NOR any more stones, though x-rays show they are still there, just not coming out to play.That was almost two years ago. I quit listening to specialists or anyone who "knows better" about ANYTHING about then! Strangely enough, fountain cokes don't bother me at all. Mostly water and little carbonation, I guess. Try it. Nothing to lose once you start passing 'em, but NOT doing it again!
Paul
I really HOPE you don't have any more! I been run over, shot, $hit at and hit, kicked by horses, thrown out of airplanes, and generally abused, and I would do
ALL of those again rather than even an ITTY BITTY stone again!!!
