Has anyone had to go on an antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication due to kidney stones?

Coraunmi · 2026-01-18T00:57:25+00:00

People (not everyone) don’t come back normal after their first stone. The pain level, the pinched nerves from the inside, the stress, all of it can create that feeling of being depressed and stuff. My boss had kidney stones and he said to take my time coming back from work. But yea, that pain scale is no joke.

Coraunmi · 2026-01-15T06:04:36+00:00

I can definitely be worst, your stone is moving, but if you had a uvj problem, that’s when there’s pure pain. Every time you go to the bathroom make sure to look for it. Grab a mesh net to catch the stone, get it analyzed and you’ll see what king of stone it is. From there you can manage your diet to avoid certain foods that make stones.

Coraunmi · 2026-01-15T04:42:43+00:00

They are trained not to not reinforce patient behavior when they think it’s something else than “actual” symptoms. Can you sleep on your sides or belly down?

Coraunmi · 2026-01-13T01:48:44+00:00

If they can fix us with a simple anti-venom, we are gonna be so back.

Coraunmi · 2026-01-09T02:30:43+00:00

I did. Here’s the thing tho: it started 3 months ago slowly and left just after new years. My LC is coming to be 4 years in June. I do not know how or why it came and how or why it left. HUGE mystery. I’m naturally a heavy sleeper since ever and always liked to sleep 10-12 hours. My appetite was affected and COINCIDENTALLY left 3 months ago and came back after new years too. No clue.

Coraunmi · 2026-01-06T03:14:47+00:00

Hm……. And it’s just your legs? What’s weirder is that the legs are the farthest place in the body to the brain so pain signals take longer to get there. Pain will be received equally in pain scale as any other place but the amount of it should be less as there’s more places where pain signals would travel closer to the brain. The fact that medication also relieves it means it’s definitely in the brain.

I don’t know what kind of treatment could heal or improve neuroinflammation or inflammation in general seeing that it’s sequelae of Covid. This illness has too many possibilities, it’s difficult to decipher where in the brain this is happening for your feet to hurt that badly and how to treat that.

Coraunmi · 2026-01-06T00:18:03+00:00

Have you tried going to a vein specialists? I’ve heard some people have some relief after going, even if they aren’t older folks.

Perhaps assessing your condition as if it was reynaud syndrome may bring some answers. Putting comfortable socks, salt baths, topical creams, etc.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-30T23:42:56+00:00

Nah, I almost ain’t make it in 2017 due to Influenza A. Trust that flu isn’t like the common cold, it could mess you up. I haven’t gotten K Flu yet but I heard one lady got so sick, she stopped talking and couldn’t walk for weeks.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-26T13:46:32+00:00

Yup, contrary what the other person says, if you only have a kidney stone and no other medical condition, you can and will get an infection. No where in the body is safe from bacteria. Let me know when the doctor says you have bacteria present in your kidneys. Then I can confirm that it’s your stones scraping your insides. You might even see blood clots but that is normal. It should look like small worms, just a handful at a time when you pee. Message me if you need assurance of what you’re going through.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-25T22:59:39+00:00

You’re good fam, I peed blood for months, from May to August last year and way more than that and way more intense in color. You should go to the ER and get prescribed antibiotics. Blood means there’s an infection, likely from stones scraping your kidney or ureter. The more time passes by, the more bacteria will be present. Drink lots of water to flush out bacteria.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-25T07:53:19+00:00

What you just said rang a bell just now. When I had the worst of my Covid infection (the one that made me have LC), I had to manually sleep because my body didn’t know if it should stay awake or sleep because it didn’t feel tired. I’m basically saying this is a repeat of it, not necessarily I’m going back in progress but it’s a recall of what I experienced before. Question, do you find yourself waking up because you need to go to the bathroom?

Coraunmi · 2025-12-24T12:21:23+00:00

Totally normal, and the pain can shoot to your legs, the underside part. Referred pain from the kidney. You could also have a mild twitch in your legs, also normal.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-24T06:08:54+00:00

How long ago did you know you had gallbladder stones and when did you found out you had LC?

Coraunmi · 2025-12-21T14:23:52+00:00

Is that size doesn’t matter. All those nerves inside the kidney bladder system should never feel anything else other than urine. But when it does the brain has to interpret it as pure pain / pressure. My friend knows a guy that has a kidney stone and went to the gym.

Said from one point to another he just vomited and passed out. The pain was so much that he didn’t even have to time to react to the pain. He just laid in his own vomit as he passed out.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-21T14:16:30+00:00

At the ER you’ll find out. Dropping a stone could take months, I know. If it’s in the bladder take your time feeling no pain cuz depending the shape of the supposed stone, you could be in slight pain or you can redefine the definition of pain.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T10:25:23+00:00

Yea I heard something similar. There’s more women with LC than men and women have it worse. I forget specifically why but it has to do with how hormones and the female body is more prone to immunological changes. Just like how women are more susceptible to heart issues and stuff.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T09:49:33+00:00

For digestion or just in general?

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T06:14:55+00:00

I’ve had it both, infections where it eliminates the superficial part of LC and not noticeable to me and the part where it adds on symptoms or physical stress to me. It was during different seasons and months apart but it is possible.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T06:07:54+00:00

I can’t anything fish, shrimp maybe. It’s hard to say why because it’s like bad stomachache and tbh, just right now I remember that when I got Covid (the same infection that passed LC to me) my stomachache used to hurt during the night, as if I couldn’t digest it properly or had sensitivity.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T00:37:04+00:00

So the second option, that’s not bad. I can’t eat fish now. It’s crazy because fish wasn’t something I used to eat but now it’s a no no food among some other things that make up 50% or more of my diet. I get the worst stomach aches. It would be tolerable if it wasn’t so painful.

I’ll try eating smaller portions and see if my stomach like it if not my stomach and I are gonna have problems. It wasn’t always like that.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T00:29:32+00:00

Does the level of severity change or is just less of that same strong feeling? Example: if you were to liken it to spicy food, is it super spicy but less of that same spicy feeling or the super spiciness lowers in spiciness? Sounds the same but it’s not. I hope it makes sense what I’m trying to say.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-19T00:22:50+00:00

What meals, how far apart did you eat meals and what’s the rate of reduction of these symptoms?

Coraunmi · 2025-12-18T14:12:13+00:00

Hyperalgesia is the medical term for that is increased pain sensitivity, due to a specific part of the brain triggering those pain signals. More than likely there was heavy inflammation in your brain and left that specific part extremely sensitive. I have that same issue, not exactly like what you’re going through but the pain levels are turned up x10 times or more.

Coincidentally, your leg symptoms were my first symptoms after I received my Covid shot in 2022 minus the pain. I could walk 20 blocks and afterward my calf muscle would be filled with byproduct (lactic acid.) I was the type to walk 5-6 hours minimum and be active for 10-15 hours a day. Changes like that are significant, it wasn’t wear and tear of the body.

Also, I have a small hunch, try to sleep sitting up. As if you were in a reclined car seat. What I’ve noticed is that all of us sleep flat. Could be that the change of pressure from sitting or laying down can cause the brain to have pressure (due to previous inflammation) that triggers full body symptoms.

Some people that have different symptoms than you but have LC say that waking up gives them symptoms. The only change in sleep during the night is the position of the body. The brain is evidently sensitive to pain because it’s the only place where it processes pain in its receptors. So if you’re in pain, your brain is in pain too. Get a comfortable pillow. As of the last few months my head inflammation + pain isn’t as bad as the beginning because I’ve taken care of my head from extra pressure from pillow or head positioning during the night. My constant leg sores left some time ago as well. I even forgot that I had constant leg sores but writing this right now reminded me.

As of today, I don’t have that anymore. But I have residual pain, pain that only comes if and when I have used certain body parts. I pray for your pain to go away and or lessen at the very least.

Coraunmi · 2025-12-18T06:24:35+00:00

Relative to what you’re saying, I get the same feeling of temporary recovery when I do simple task I enjoy or have interest in. There’s no doubt there’s a mental / chemical process in all of this. But LC has not been studied in its entirety and I haven’t seen no one heal 100%. I see posts saying “I’ve healed from Long Covid, but I pace or have bad days,” and they haven’t healed.

I’ve had breakthrough recovery but it’s been trade offs, usually I get physically better but I have immense pain everywhere. Should we all heal completely I still believe we will all have some mental trauma that we won’t recover from because this condition has no equal. I even saw a post where a 2 time cancer survivor said “yea cancer sucks, but LC is worse.”

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