It’s a long story…but I recently had an emergency room visit involving the worst lower abdominal/pelvic pain I’ve ever experienced. It happened out of nowhere in the middle of the night. I was sure something really terrible was happening. To make a long story short, regular xrays and a urine and blood test were all done. This did not yield any definite answers besides ruling out pregnancy and appendicitis. The doctor decided to give me a laxative on a whim…because he couldn’t see anything physically wrong. He said he wanted to do an ultrasound. I had already been there 6 hours so I asked him if I could just take the laxative and come back if it didn’t fix the pain.
So the constant pain went away, but every so often after that I still got a twinge of that terrible pain.
So I’m hoping someone with kidney stone experience or a nurse can tell me whether or not that sounds like a kidney stone, and if a kidney stone can pass without you knowing.
I hadn’t really thought about kidney stones until I had heard that one of my friends had one. So out of curiosity I went onto webmd.com and checked out some information on them.
I also know that an ultrasound might’ve shown a kidney stone…and that I probably shouldn’t have refused it. But I was on vacation, and spending 7 hours in a Canadian ER was the last thing I wanted to be doing.
Well the problem with the urine test they did was that I was menstruating that day and there was blood in the sample I gave them….also, my blood cell count was low and my platelets were high. I’m also pretty anemic…so that’s why the blood cell count it always so low.
