my dad is 54, his current gf who is about a month pregnant is 24 and i do see wedding bells for them down the road. since he turned 50, he divorced his 2nd wife and really begun dating women between 20 and 25! he got two of them pregnant, while at the same time his health was tipping. when he turned 50, he found he had diabetes and was suffering from bph enlarged prostate which he still does today, not to mention high cholesterol, a gallstone and a his share of kidney stones and high blood pressure. i remember him not really having a best diet, no fruit, rarely drank water either. in his mid 30′s he passed his 1st kidney stone & said it was an eye opener, but continued to get them through the years and still not do much about it. how does an older guy like with the health problems get all the young hot women? do women care whether or not the guy they’re having a baby with as all of these health problems? thats he passed his share of kidney stones? my mom said he probably yelled or screamed when the stone came out of his "you know?" and said its just like having a baby for a man. wouldnt all of the stone affect sexual performance for a man? i just cant imagine having a pee out a solid, hard rock through my johnson, let alone having my young hot gf hear me scream from it!

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What is the difference between kidney stone and gallstone? What is the difference in treatment? What are the options for treatment other than surgery? Can we drink water to flush out gallstones?

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Someone I know has a 15mm gall bladder stone. They only came to know abt it last week when they had a moderate gall bladder attack. Ultrasound showed the stone. Surgery has been advised. The doc said that it’s ok if you put off having surgery for like a month or two, but don’t put it off indefinitely. If you have important work and want to delay it, just make sure you don’t eat any fat in between (as it cud prompt another attack).

I want to know if some other non-surgical technique is there which really works, which is safe and effective in dissolving the gallstone, which cud be attempted in this 1-2 months time frame that they have got? And my second question is that can Lithotripsy (spelling?), which is used to shatter kidney stones) be used to shatter the gall stone as well, and will it have any negative side effect?
The reason for looking for a non-surgical technique is because the doctor said that, in gall bladder surgery, the whole gall bladder is removed along with the stone. And since they want to avoid removing the gall bladder (unless of course there’s NO other option), they want to know about alternatives.

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