Kidney stones treatment stent
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I am a 60 yr old female with extensive history of kidney stones since 1978 (before lithotrypsy), recurrent infections & blood in urine. I am prone to both calcium stones & uric acid stones. First kidney stone was size of a walnut & could not pass so was removed by actual surgery. Over the yrs I experienced more stones that would not pass so more surgeries. Have developed scar tissue in both ureters & have had 2 stents. Extreme pain so stent removal.
How long did it take for the pain to subside? My son had Stent removal a little over 2 weeks ago and still has pain. He swears it is not as bad as the pain he was having before the procedure, but a recent sono showed small stones in kidney so I'm not sure if his pain is Stent healing or stones. Docs aren't sure either.
It's been three weeks since my diagnosis of having multiple kidney stones on the right side. The Radiologist who gave me my stat results said I would pass them and didnt think straining my urine was something I needed to do. I finally got in to see my urologist he was upset I wasn't straining and wanted me to have surgery since I will be undergoing IVF treatments in March. I agreed because I don't want to deal with flare up while pregnant.
I was in horrible horrible pain the entire rest of my pregnancy and a few weeks after my son was born they did another surgery to remove the stent well when they did they found that my entire kidney was nothing but stones and the whole length of the stent from one side to the other was stone after stone after stone!
I too have a stent. No your kidney will be ok thats the purpose of the stent to keep it from obstruction and working properly. Please correct me if I'm wrong Doc.
I had kidney stones removed last night with a laser and had a stent put in . Is it normal to pee constantly? My wife picked me up some depends to wear at night but as soon as I put them on I pee in them so here Iam 3am sitting on the toilet with pee just dripping out of my penis is there anything I can do ??
Rushed to ER, where a CT scan was done. 3 stones were detected - one in ureter, and 2 in kidney. Doctor could not reach the stone so he ended up putting the stent and asked me to drink water (he predicted stones to be uric acid stones). Then I went for ultrasound every 10 days. 1st ultrasound said I have only 2 stones remaining. 2nd ultrasound said I had 1 stone of 6mm remaining. 3rd ultrasound said I had 1 stone of 8mm.
Hi there,
I've recently had a cystoscopy with laser destruction of some kidney stones to my left kidney. I wasn't warned about the severe pain that came to me after the operation. They gave me morphine to numb the pain whilst in hospital but nothing to come home with so it was very sore indeed in my left side and back also the pain when I urinated was quite severe aswell. The bleeding took 4 days to stop.
i am still in pain. not kidney stone pain but pain from the procedure and the stent.
Yes I had that too. I'm not sure if pyridium is ok to take in pregnancy but I would ask and see. It helps a lot when you have to pee. There is also an OTC product that helps too but again I'm not sure about taking it in pregnancy. It's called azo standard. There is always cranberry juice too! Kidney stones are pretty painful. This year I had 11 removed out of one kidney and two stents out in. I've had them in the last too but never required surgery for them like I did this time.
Drink plenty of water and talk to your nephrologist regarding the treatment of kidney stones which include pain killers, trying avoiding taking calcium rich foods. If the symptoms persist then surgical intervention is needed. This includes, ureteroscopy, ureteral stent placement, ESWL and percutaneous nephrostomy.
I suggest you to get an evaluation done from a urologist and discuss the various treatment options,
I hope it helps. Take care and regards.
Hi, 43 year old male recovering from first lithotripsy and stent procedure from kidney stone. I had stent removal about 5 hours ago and my kidney region is quite painful and sore still and was just wondering how normal this is. It is not as painful, mind you, as the excruciating and life-changing monstrosity of the wrenching pain of the last 5 days . . . however, I am curious as I believed (for what reason i have no idea) that my pain would be gone by now.
thanks!
s thinking, it makes sense if a person is not familiar with kidney stones. That stent should have helped your kidney and helped your ureta to heal . It should have caused you only minor discomfort while in. If your problem continues, I'd strongly suggest that you contact your Urologist for a follow up appointment to have it checked out.
I have had, in the past when I had a stone they had to go get out and then put in a stent for a week or two, what I call "aftershocks" .
Dave,
I have suffered for many years with kidney stones myself (35 plus years and at least 35 plus stones). I had surgery for stone removal about 35 years ago and then didn't need surgery again until just the Spring of 2015. Those are the only two times that I have had to have stones removed and have stents. The other many times during all those years, the stones have passed on their own, sometimes multiple stones at once.
I had a 10 mm stone in my renal pelvis, multiple stones in the lower portion of the kidney largest of which was 6mm and 3 stones in the ureter largest measuring 4 mm. I had a stent in for a week and in that time passed maybe 5 or 6 tiny little pieces, since the stent was removed Ive counted just 1 tiny piece passed. My first lithotripsy i had only one large stone and passed a considerable amount more.
my 10yr old daughter had ureteroscopy proecedure in Oct08 for stone removal on her right kidney then had the stent removed 6 wks later. Then our troubles started because retrograde pyelogram showed distal ureteral dilatation. This means that the flow of urine to the bladder is not normal and there is narrow passage close to the bladder. In Dec, ultrasound showed hydronephrosis and hydroureter with stones again in the lower pole of the kidney. Nothing was done other than observation.
They discovered I had a kidney full if stones, one of which was trapped. They put in a stint, and I had it for 4 months. Then they went in and blasted the stones. I haven't had anymore problems until recently. Ive passed 2 stones in the past month or so, one of them was about 3/4 centimeter. The strange thing is, they haven't been excruciating, like the first time. I didn't even have to take any pain meds and I'm a wuss! Has anyone else had this or know why it's happening?
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