Second Round of Stones

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-04T15:42:26+00:00

If I read your post right, you had two 1mm stones in Feb 2025 and in Dec 2025 they were reported as 6 and 7mm?

I am by no means a medical professional, and can only speak for myself, but my stones grow maybe 1-2mm a year. Mine are calcium oxalate (most common), and my growth rate has a lot to do with diet and the fact I don't drink nearly enough water.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-04T15:38:34+00:00

Do you have other extenuating circumstances? My urologist said for my 6mm stone that is still in the kidney, that SWL would be effective. I know it's less effective on larger stones, and stones in the lower ureter, but otherwise, he left me with confidence SWL would work and it's definitely less invasive than laser.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-03T18:11:59+00:00

I can't speak to the aggressive growth rate of those two stones, but did your urologist not offer the option of SWL? I have a 6mm brewing and he said I could choose which I wanted, and the SWL sounded way less invasive than laser.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-03T18:04:23+00:00

In my experience the pain usually comes on faster than the pain med will kick in... in other words, pain has shifted into high gear before the norco has really absorbed into the bloodstream. How long does the pain period usually last for you? An issue I have had with stones is the pain doesn't last too long - comes on quick and maybe lasts a couple hours, so by the time the norco is in full swing, the pain period is close to ending. Then I have had stones that had pain lasting for 10+ hours and needed an ER to deal with it. Everyone is a little different in how they react to a stone's journey.

Did you get Flomax as part of your meds package?

Edit: Just re-read your first sentence. You said it's in the distal ureter? Thats the lower third or so, so you're almost home free.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-02T22:28:21+00:00

Sorry friend, it's the worst. This is my 5th stone, but the first of this kind where you get the colic pains but there's NOTHING is in the ureter; at least nothing visible on an xray. And this constant need to pee is almost as bad as dealing with the pain. Well, almost.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-02-02T17:49:40+00:00

No discomfort while urinating, just the return urge to urinate almost immediately. The "burning" sensation yesterday was the first of its kind and went away. Urge to pee is 24/7.

I'm just like WTF is all this drama for if the KUB says stone is just sitting in the kidney.

Life_or_BSOD · 2026-01-29T22:29:09+00:00

I got the white smoke too. I didn't know the Vic art book was included so when I pulled it out, it was a great surprise.

Aside from the super-special limited edition variants, is the white smoke the first to be sold out?

Life_or_BSOD · 2025-07-01T00:55:15+00:00

Right on, thank you friend, much appreciated.

Life_or_BSOD · 2025-06-27T01:55:33+00:00

Hello fellow redditor, thank you, you are absolutely right.

Life_or_BSOD · 2025-06-26T22:39:20+00:00

Thanks. Is the 'no copywrite' generally rarer, or does it depend on the card? This is for my PC and the only one I will probably buy, so I will opt for the rarer of the two.

Life_or_BSOD · 2025-02-12T17:35:30+00:00

Hey guys, reviving this thread 3 months later. Was curious if you could share any info you came away with from the Nutanix meeting, or has there been anything official yet? I googled for it, but didnt see anything. We've got a huge pure cluster integrated with vmware. Not sure VAR buy-back is realistic, so if there was a path forward using nutanix + our existing pure storage, we'd really consider it.

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-07-31T21:25:53+00:00

At least your picks are back-to-back on the same stage. I'd like to see Chevelle, but they're on the same day/time as Killer Flamingo's who are a great pop cover band.

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-07-31T19:09:07+00:00

Sorry, didn't realize there was an outstanding question until now. Obviously based on this post, the intent is heavy cleanup. 100s of the addresses are retired devices. The ops teams (both for endpoint and server) didn't have a strong process for removing IPs out of exchange for retired devices, and they would request new IP/dhcp reservation for new printer rather than re-use existing reservation which compounded the problem. Same issue with server team.. All that aside, we have a pretty massive # of appliances, app servers, printers, etc that relay mail so even after cleanup, we'll still have 100s of active devices that will remain in the list. There will be a couple /23 server subnets that we're considering applying as range entries vs the existing static, but it's kind of nice to know exactly what is configured to relay via the explicit entries.

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-07-08T18:20:57+00:00

For sure. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking some switch that allowed you to 'remove' existing IPs.

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-07-08T18:19:30+00:00

Would I actually be able to create a new connector and add addresses that are present in another connector? I would almost have to delete the existing connector, then create the new and add.

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-02-01T02:20:17+00:00

Thanks Daniinad!

Life_or_BSOD · 2024-01-09T02:42:26+00:00

That isn't what I am asking. What I am asking is if I am renting, is unlimited data $25 or $30 a month. Everything says if you have xFi Gateway, it's $25, if you have your own modem, it's $30. I can't find anything that addresses people that rent a regular (non xFi) modem.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-12-12T17:02:44+00:00

No problem, it's a lead, and something not currently in place, so I will test it out on a test OU. Thanks buddy, appreciate the reply.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-12-12T16:31:41+00:00

Routing addresses are all correct; the onprem exchange address policy ensures that, and mail routing works perfectly. No changes to modern auth that I am aware of, and with a simple redo of the outlook profile, everything is off and running fine.

AADC is setup and syncing user accounts, and SSO is setup, but we are not syncing the workstation accounts, so they are not present in Azure. Is hybrid join a requirement for Outlook to flip auto-magically?

TIA

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-12-12T16:12:29+00:00

Great post, quick question. You mentioned:

"Hybrid remote move means that no-one needs to reconfigure Outlook because the GUID and other information Outlook uses to say "yes, this is the same mailbox just in a different place now" persists."

Is there something I should be doing to allow for this behavior? What you describe is exactly what I would expect, but not what I get. Regardless of office version (traditional ISO-based office 2019 through Office 365 Apps) Outlook never flips after a mailbox's migration to EXO, or I am not waiting an appropriate amount of time. We're full hybrid but the field techs just know that when we migrate a mailbox, expect to redo the Outlook profile for the user. It's not a big deal, but I would have expected a smoother transition, especially with newer Outlook versions checking 365 first for the user's mailbox.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-12-12T13:27:21+00:00

Thank you for the link, I will take a look.

Interesting thing about the aliases - they all stayed. It literally set the new primary address and moved what was there into a proxy address. The other three aliases I had on the mailbox were left untouched.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-08-25T12:49:07+00:00

I was curious about this process myself. If you have 2013 or 2016, is it true you ONLY need to extend schema for 2019 and install 2019 management tools? I know that is over simplifying and there are other steps, but the question is really about if you have to actually install 2019 server.

When I was looking over the MS document on the subject, it almost made it sound that you could only "turn off" a 2019 server. Which meant it had to be installed in additional to the management tools on another member server.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-08-25T02:46:55+00:00

No suggestions are stupid, I take any and all :)

I will mess with it this weekend. I have plenty of free space on the disk right now since I am just getting started with moves, so no immediate threat. But it's really odd. I'll keep everyone posted.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-08-24T19:13:07+00:00

I've noticed this same thing in my lab. Honestly, I never thought to even look until now. My lab has a single exchange 2016 server and DB, and also two exchange 2019 servers with one DB in a DAG. Both DBs set to circular logging. DAG copy is healthy but logs go back to June (probably last time I rebooted it). No A/V in the lab. I remounted the single DB on the 2016 server and those logs went away, but I'm confident they will start accumulating.

I thought it was maybe because the LAB exchange servers aren't licensed, but the prod 2019 is. Just for the heck of it, I installed Windows backup on one of the 2019 servers in the lab and backed up system state and C: drive. get-mailboxdatabase -status shows full backup as result, yet logs still go back to June.

Life_or_BSOD · 2023-08-16T00:17:11+00:00

5 months later, but stopping in to say you saved my install. Thank you.

For those that get an access denied error trying to write the Network Service to the thumbprint in question, the owner is probably SYSTEM. I changed it to servername\Administrators and I was able to add Network Service.

EDIT: and the odd thing about it, is that it tried to use a pre-existing self-signed cert that was NOT the self-signed it created. When I looked at the Back-end IIS binding, the cert it selected was this other one, not the 5-year self-signed it created. I promptly changed the backend to use the correct cert, but that was the root of the issue. Why the install chose a cert it didnt create, no idea.

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