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Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 11:00 Rising global temperatures could lead to an increase in kidney stones, according to research presented today at the 103rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA). Dehydration has been linked to stone disease, particularly in warmer climates, and global warming will exacerbate this effect. As a result, the prevalence of stone disease may increase, along with the costs of treating the condition.
The southern United States is considered "the stone belt" because these states have higher incidences of kidney stones. Rising global temperatures could expand this region; the fraction of the U.S. population living in high-risk stone zones is predicted to grow from 40 percent in 2000 to 50 percent by 2050. This could lead to an increase of one to two million lifetime cases of stone disease.
"A post I found describing the pain from having kidney stones. My advice is to drink tons of water with lemon. The lemon breaks down the stone or stones, before they deveop and cause intense pain.""Friday morning I woke up with fucking unbearable pain in the lower left side of my back. I could hardly breathe because of how much it hurt.
I call someone to take me to the ER and by the time I get there praying to god for someone to just knock me the fuck out.
But I've gotta answer some questions of course before I get some sweet sweet pain medication makng me want to grab a nurse a strangle them. I know they weren't doing anything other than their job, I was just in hella fucking pain.
I finally give them all the info they need and they stick that IV in my arm and proceed to give me something for the pain. After that I had a catscan showing them that I had a 6mm (not very big) kidney stone that I'm currently trying to pass.
They send me home with some pain pills and a "good luck on passing that stone!". Really wish that would have went in and crushed that fucker while I was there dammit because I was in the exact same amount of pain this morning as I was on friday.
Seriously after being attacked with a baseball bat that required staples in my head, breaking fingers ect. a kidney stone eclipses all pain that i've endured by far. So, um anyone else ever experienced the joy of a kidney stone? if so tell me how it rated compared to other physical pains you've endured."
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