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Clean 6 months, now a kidney stone. HELP!

Hello to all of you! This is my first post, but I have been reading these forms for 6 months. I have found great advice, wisdom, shared experience, and love in these postings. Now I need some advice. I kicked a habit and have been 100% mind altering chemical free for a full 6 months. I have recently been having repeated kidney stones (passed two so far) and will be recieving treatment (a vibration therepy to break up the stones) this coming week. The pain is currently unbearable. I have been rejecting my doctor and surgeons perscriptions for pain meds and instead have used large dose of Motrin. I am pushing the limits of daily Motrin intake for some time now. I have also been taking stone disolving meds, homeopathic teas for the kidney and urinary system. I meditate daily. The pain is effecting so many areas of my life (daily work load, new relationship, my mood and emotional state, ect.). I want to deal with the pain in a sane way, with respect to my history, but feel I may be at my limit. Is my desire to be pain free or to use stronger tools (opiates) to cope until the situation is resolved really unrealistic? Has anyone else had stones, and how did they deal with the pain? How do people with previous substance abuse problems deal with the aging and degrading body (especially pain issues)?
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I was having stones real bad for a few months due to a med called topamax. That drug has the reputation for stones after a few months use.

I believe it all depends on you, it is a very serious pain. Especially when you add the problem of not being able to relieve the pressure on your bladder, ie: not being able to pee.

Hopefully the vibration therapy, along with the drugs to reduce the stones size will take care of the problem first.

If you just cannot handle the pain, by all means take something to relieve it. Dont torture yourself with the pain. That is the whole reason behind pain meds. Just remember when the problem is solved, time to drop the drugs. So let your doctor know you have a problem there before you get the script.

If you think you can tough it out, then by all means do that, but dont torture yourself.

I am sooo familiar with pain, it is my constant companion now for 7 long years. I think the worst thing about pain is the lack of sleep it causes. Luckly your pain has a resolution to it, and is not permanent, even though it seems like it will never end.


Hope you get that gone soon!

Allen
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if you are in that kind of pain, being on meds as long as your are monitored and have someone in your life to help keep you straight and honest should not be a problem in my opinion. you are aware of what kind of ugly fierce animal this can be so with the right support from you doctor family and this forum you could stay on track but still relieve the pain. it would be a temporary situation.
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