@cdin
Thank you for the reply.
Sounds like hell. Glad you have managed to get back to mostly normal.
I have a few questions/comments.
Was the ptsd related to the k abuse or something else?
It definitely sounds like the opes have not helped. I'd wager the mixture is what really got you. Also wtf is fleet sodium?
I think you should be honest with your providers (do you mean doctors etc?) it wasn't until I was that they took me seriously.
The worst kidney pains I ever had was when I was drinking every day for months then had to go into hospital for an operation on a dodgy filing id got that became infected and had to be on anti biotics for nearly 3 weeks so obviously i couldn't drink. I had been doing oramorph, tramadol and codeine in hospital for 4 days then prescribed codeine for a further 14 days @ 60mg x 3 a day. I also didnt stop doing K, but i didnt have it every day.
The day i had my first drink after stopping the ABs, POW, after just a few mouthfuls of strong cider, literally within minutes, it was like someone had hit me with a hammer in both kidneys. It almost floored me i thought i was going to need to go back to hospital.
Only doing K made the pain go away. And I carried on drinking and powered through. For the sake of the party, right?
Since then, when I drink heavily (say 70cl of rum) alongside more than a few g of K i OCCASIONALLY get little aches in them for a few hours the next day, so i just hammer loads of water and they stop hurting.
I think I'm going to start taking a kidney protection supplement