Posted on 03/10/2019 10:34:55 AM PDT by Valk Rider
Early Friday morning my wife was in severe pain on her left side. Went to the walk-in clinic and they said she needed to go to the Emergency Room. We did. As soon as the Doc seen her he said, he believed the cause is a kidney stone. Took X-Ray and sure nuff it was 1 stone about 2mm in size. They gave her an IV, a pain shot, and a few other shots. We were there for about 3.5 hours. When discharged they gave her a script for 4 prescriptions. The Doc told her the stone was about to pass. He said she will most likely feel pain when she does pass the stone and that is normal. They gave her a pee trap with a screen filter so she could see the stone once passed. It's now Sunday, 2 days later, and still has not passed the stone.
She isn't experiencing any pain. In fact, she's feeling pretty good. Maybe not 100%, but is doing well. She's drinking lots of water and one of the meds prescribed is to make her pee more often. And she is peeing more often than usual.
Can anyone here speculate if we should be concerned about not passing the kidney stone by now?
And since it is on the internet it must be right.
“And this too shall pass my son”
She nay have already passed it and it slipped by the trap.
Pretty much feels like giving birth.
Not much advice, but I would continue to lots of water, take meds except those for pain unless needed and call a urologist in the AM. Did the ER make a referral?
I will pray for her relief! They hurt like the dickens!
I have only had one, 9mm, too large to pass on its own so the urologist blasted it to smaller pieces by shock wave lithotripsy. Passing the fragments, and their were many, was a painful, nauseating experience that took 2 days.
I have had so many kidney stone attacks that I can’t remember how many.
It is hard to say for sure but it sounds like the stone has moved to the bladder where the pain is either non existent or just a slight irritation.
I have almost never even known when they passed out of the body. Just see them in that screener. I will say that once I had them off and on for 12 days. The pain was not as severe as sometimes but still enough to make me barf.
Agreed,
May have already passed
and missed it.
Painful in any case.
Tang OJ by the gallon is a home remedy that helped me a couple of times.
I never knew when I passed mine. But I was also in the hospital on morphine.
Surely the urologist that diagnosed her in the Emergency room noted that she see him/her on a follow-up appointment. Then the check-up will determine if the stone was passed. Patience is required. If she has no pain at this time, more than likely the stone has been passed.
I've gone through this several times and it is excruciatingly painful. Haven't had one in a while though. Might be because I try to drink around a gallon of clean spring water and black coffee each day. That seems to have done the trick as far as preventing more from forming.
Year ago this past Labor Day weekend (Fri. nite naturally) had the same thing, same size. Got some morphine at ER and hydra contin script to hold me. ER set me up with a urologist for Tues. AM. Had another X-ray that morning, stone was still there, and then got the sonic procedure. Was home by 3 PM.
Procedure worked well, only very small pieces of debris in trap. Lab said it was oxalates.
My family is prone to them so, yeah we know how it’s like.
No pain means urine is no longer “backed up’ resulting in pain.
It may have passed to her bladder where it will no longer cause any pain and may take a few more days to pass all the way out.
If the stone was still in the tubes between the kidney and bladder, it would probably still hurt intermittently within a few hours and you should see a urologists. He will determine if you need lipotripsy or to have a “basket’ to go up her urinary tract and grab the stone if if is too hard for the sound waves to bust it up.
I’ve had it done both ways. Not fun.
Continue to drink lots of water.
Good luck!
I’ve had the wonderful experience twice. Took several weeks for mine to pass.
Once was enough. I’m guessing my body wanted to have me experience it again out of rage for starting to exercise at that time. LOL’d at the time despite the pain as it reminded me that I was still alive.
Your wife has my sympathy. Drinking the water and I mean, DRINKING THE WATER is about the only way to rid herself of that stone without medical science.
2 mm is not very big as stones gone but can still raise hell in the ureter or urethra. Sometimes they will further break up and become almost like sand which would pass through the trap.
My wife gets lots of anxiety and for a few years when we were first married she would get some pain in the middle of the night, get anxious about it, start to panic and think she was dying or something. She'd insist on going to the emergency room.
From this process I learned a couple of things. First, in the middle of the night the ER doctor's job is to keep you alive until 8am when the regular staff comes in. If you aren't dying, they won't talk to you more than once, maybe twice if you're lucky. Second, you never see them again once you leave. That's not their bag.
I finally told my wife "These ER doctors in the middle of the night will do nothing for you unless you are in cardiac arrest. If you seriously think you can't make it til morning, then we'll go. Otherwise I think you're better off waiting and seeing a doctor in office because that's what ends up happening anyway". She agreed and we haven't gone back to the ER in 10 years.
I have a history of kidney stones and passed a 5mm stone last week. Passing a 2mm stone will be painful but quite doable. Once the stone passes through the ureter tube and reaches the bladder, the worst is over.
We have a friend that has recurrent kidney stones....only had to have them “blasted” twice over the years but they do make her miserable when they occur....if she isn’t currently in pain, things are going good....if she needs followup procedures, the stone will make it evident...just don’t irritate her for the nonce...;-)
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