This is our second time around. Please help me!
I have a kidney stone (for the second time) and I’m wondering if it can completely block the ureter and prevent urine from leaving the kidney…or does urine still find a way of getting around the stone.
It seems like the night after I eat meat (1/2 lb of beef or chicken) a I get a stone. I’m primarily vegetarian now, but this has happened the last two times I’ve eaten meat and I’m wondering if this is normal and can be expected every time I break my no-meat diet?
The first time it happened I’d been meatless for 2 weeks, second time was 2 weeks after that.
I went into my local ER on a Thursday. They said I had a 7mm kidney stone. They gave me pain meds and a strainer and sent me home. Well Sunday the pain meds were not helping anymore at all. The pain was excruciating so I went back. I had a different dr the second time and he said it was border line having surgery. He sent me home with stronger pain meds a new stainer and said if it doesn’t pass by Tuesday or Wednesday then I will probably have to have surgery. Today is Tuesday and The pain meds are gone and it still hasn’t passed. I do not want to have the surgery I have 3 kids and can’t afford a baby sitter and my husband can’t afford to take off work to help. Any body know ANYTHING I can do to help it pass. I HAVE been drinking LOTS of water and it obviously hasn’t helped. Please I am in pain and need help
Here’s some background:
On September 4 I went to the ER for terrible pain in my back and abdomen. I was literally in the floor and couldn’t move. I had a CT scan which confirmed I had large kidney stone high in the urethra (just below the kidney). They gave me morphine it eased the pain, they prescribed vicodin, and sent me home. I’m assuming they did nothing more, because I said I didn’t have insurance. Which unfortunately for me I did, as my school had picked me up earlier than planed and failed to tell me. I’ve never had a kidney stone before so I read online for home remedies, and the pain didn’t occur again until October 4. So once again I went to the ER but morphine didn’t do the trick after 3 doses so I was given toradol, prescription for percocet, and a number for an appointment with a urologist.
The vicodin didn’t even touch the pain so that’s why I went to the ER a second time. However, the percocet worked wonders and virtually took all the pain away. After scheduling to see the urologist it was roughly a 3 week wait. By the next week the pain was unbearable and the percocet did nothing, so my mom who is friend’s with a urologist in my hometown had him phone the doctor I was supposed to see to get me in sooner. Since she was unable to see me I was given a different doctor, and upon meeting him the first day he had me in surgery that afternoon to put a stent in my right kidney. I met with him various times over the next month or so for "follow-ups", and I have since been scheduled for lithotripsy on November 17.
After the surgery the next 3-5 days were very uncomfortable, but I got used to the stent and was able to return to regular activities with the help of a percocet a day. I met with the doctor two weeks ago and told him I was uncomfortable and in moderate pain, but he seemed to just shrug it off. The first of the month seems to be when problems really occur. November 3 I was in unbearable pain again, and nothing helped. My urologist is on vacation, so I saw another one who works in his office, because I was having troubling urinating and my urethra felt as if something sharp were trying to come out and it hurt to do anything. After anything I said she was quick to say it was "classical side effects of the stent", but to me it doesn’t feel like the stent it feels like something more is going on in there and it just doesn’t feel right. She ordered a x-ray and I had to give a urine sample. I couldn’t pee so she had an in- and- out catheter put in me to drain the urine. The urine showed no infection, and I was told the x-ray showed the stent in proper placement, and the stone hasn’t moved.
The pain is unbearable, and is really affecting my life as I go to college throughout the week. I’ve had to leave and miss more classes than allowed, thankfully I have VERY understanding teachers otherwise I would fail.
Nothing takes the pain away (vicodin, percocet, pyridium, ultram). On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the worst my pain stays between an 8 and 9. So I’m wondering if anyone else has had this sort of problem in dealing with kidney stones. I generally take two percocets and lay on a heating pad to try and relax. I’ve also soaked in hot baths during the afternoon to try and relax, but I don’t like doing this since I am more prone to infections with the stent.
What are your thoughts? Do you think it’s just the stent, and my body is rejecting it horribly or could it be something else? The doctors don’t seem too concerned with what I am telling them since I feel like they think I’m exaggerating (which I have no reason to exaggerate, I might add)
Thanks to all in advance who take the time to read this and response!
