My dad has kidney stones, and he’s questioning whether or not it would be legal to ask a urologist if he could donate one of his kidneys in order for them to eliminate his kidney stones because we can’t afford anything right now, and he’s in a LOT of pain.

If illegal, do you have any suggestions for him to try so he can pass them?

Thank you

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My back would really hurt off and on sometimes before I found out I had stones. What finally prompted me to go the to the dr was when my husband and I were jogging and my back started hurting so bad. I could barely walk back home and I thought I was going to get sick as my mouth started watering heavily. That night I was in so much pain so I went to the dr. the next day. After a CT scan I found out I have 3 larger stones in my left kidney and 2 smaller ones in my right kidney. There is one on my right side that my urologist said is high up and seems to be stuck in the lining. So I just keep going on and they just watch it to see if it moves lower but it never does. Anyway, my lower back hurts really bad almost all of the time. I am trying to keep up my activity level but I feel tired and just want to cry from he pain. My dr. prescribed me Flomax and pain reliever. Every time I go in he asks me about the pain and I tell him how badly my lower back hurts and where and now he is telling me that pain is not from my kidney stones but from some other issue. He says kidney stones only cause pain in the middle of the back. I just know my back really hurts and it is making it hard for me to function. I have read every little trick it seems. Drink apple juice, drink water, blah blah but apparently they aren’t dissolving. Maybe I should see a chiropracter? Or should I just find another urologist?

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The urologist said he was having a hard time seeing the stone but went ahead with the procedure. When it was all said and done the doctor said he was never hitting the stone because the stones were fully intact and never even cracked. Since then my husband has had severe pain in that area. He has been back to the urologist several times and even our family doctor and they can find no reason for his chronic pain. Could the lithotripsy have done some damage? Has anyone been thru anything similar to this?

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The urologist called me yesterday ( he just got the x-rays from the ER) and says that I have a stone in the distal uretur and I would like to know what that means and if that is why this pain won’t go away, he says that maybe it has become lodged there. Is this normal?

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Ended up in the ER early Monday morning (today is Wednesday) with a small (2-3mm) kidney stone in my ereter. Doc prescribed some pain meds and said to drink a lot of fluids and that it should pass on it’s own within a week. I’ve been drinking water non-stop. Went to the urologist this morning and they took another x-ray but could not see the stone on the x-ray. urologist said that this was either due to the small size of it or because some stones don’t show up on x-rays but do on CT scans (taken at the ER). still have a "moderate" amount of blood in my urine, although it’s pretty clear with all the water I’m drinking. So my question is: When will I pass this stone??? if you have first-hand knowledge with small stones like this, please let me know. I would appreciate it.

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