All about ureteral stents

What about sex with a stent? I have had one in since Dec 19. That one was replaced during my second surgery Jan 7 – and it will be there until Feb 7 or so, which is a while to live with the periodic pain and discomfort. During the times I feel up to it my wife and I would like to take advantage of that, but we are a little concerned about increasing the odds of complications. There is no string, but I imagine there is still increased potential for infection. How common is that? While I’m at it, what about hot tubs?

Thanks to all who comment and whoever maintains this site. It has been a nightmare, but you folks have made it so I understand what I am going through.

I had laser surgery on an impacted kydney stone that was removed this past Friday , the doctor put a stint in , I was told to come in toorrow and he will remove it.

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Hello all. This isn’t my first go round with stones. But this time it is 9 mm I guess has been there for over a year and I had infection. Ive had two kids and let me tell you they should give epidurals for these devils. But here is my question. Ive had a stint for two months. Ive had the lithotripsy or what ever and it still hasn’t moved. They say because its so big and the tube is holding it together. This stint is a living hell!!!!!! If I go back to my Dr. Next Friday and nothing Ill just die. I’m only 35 walking around like like I may puss my pants all day id so not cool…not to mention the srpanims…burning. I have taking up to 3 baths a day to relieve the annoyance ….please talk to me…no one I know has a clue what I’m dealing with.

Well to say the least this New Years was not a happy one! I went to the ER in pure pain. They found out I had a 8mm kidney stone stuck on the tube. It was big so they removed it by Cystoscopy and a stent was placed on the right side. The procedure went fine n I was drugged up from the procedure and pain. I went home that night and the pain from the stent is far from pleasant! They didn’t tell me about all of this pain I’m experiencing. I have to pee every 5 mins, my right leg is numb, the burning is horrible, and I can’t go the bathroom! Why don’t they tell you this before you leave the hospital??? Well I go in on Tuesday to get the stent removed I’m terrified and anxious to go get it taken out!

I have in large kidney and I have to keep getting new stents cause they wouldn’t work. But I finally on my 6th surgery got my surgery to fix my kidney without having a stent but a couple days later urine leaked in my organ so I had to the er again
But my doc fix me up and I have no more stent but I don’t know if I shouldn’t do certain things?im sorry if anyone has this or any thing that’s harming you.God bless u

Hello to everyone and you guys are in my prayers I have some of the same situations I just got my stents placed on both urethers and I am currently 21 weeks preg since I was still early they gave me an epidural but I started off with flank pain that been going on for years way before I got pregnant I had a stone that was like 0.3 cm that’s stuck inside the kidney but they say wasn’t obstructing but that came about due to me having stents before in 05 and stent calcified which made it hard for them to remove so somehow the Uroligist puncture an artery on my right kidney which happens to be where the stone is so now as if dec 20 I have stents and I’m 21 preg and I am in a lot if pain my Uroligist got me on Percocet which I finished and so he called in vicodine and now he saying I will have to go to ob get meds cause I’m preg but on dont want to because I’m preg so what am I to do? And I have to keep them in til I deliver which is April 26,2013, and on top of that I have to get them change every two months cause my body carries a lot of calcium so can anyone tell me what’s the best medicine to stop my back pain with the stents thanks a lot all .

— About being pregnant and having to get stents..

I, too, am glad to have found this website! I am hoping my experience with stents will draw to a close in the next three months, since I’m 26 weeks pregnant and will probably need a stent in for the remainder. At 22 weeks I woke up with tremendous pain in my abdomen, just to the right of my belly button. I started sweating and dry heaving and my husband immediately took me to the OB Triage unit at our hospital. Doctors assumed (as I did) that it was my appendix since the pain was in the front. I was writhing in pain so much that they couldn’t do an MRI, and they couldn’t do an x-ray because of the baby. So, I quickly got an appendectomy – though it wasn’t my appendix! I woke up from the operation in just as much pain as before – all the narcotics weren’t touching it. The next day I was told that it was most likely my kidneys (after an MRI) and I had hydronephrosis (swelling of one kidney due to a backup of urine). I had no kidney stones but something obviously happened for me to have a kidney rupture (most likely the uterus blocking the ureter). Anyway, they announced that I would need a stent. Little did I know what would await. I was fitted with a stent, went home a few days later and started the recovery from both the surgery and stent procedure. At first the stent was tolerable… until it wasn’t. I started bleeding (in urine) and could feel it every second of the day. This went on for a couple weeks – about 3 – and I even consulted with my doctor about it. He basically said “stents are a foreign body that your body wants to push out. It’s an irritant and it will get worse.” I was so discouraged. I finally asked to have it taken out at 3 weeks. I’ll be honest – it was very painful to remove. It had already developed calcium deposits on it and my bladder was horribly inflamed – so much so that he had trouble finding it initially! Removing it was a blessing and for 3 days, I felt great…. Until… another kidney episode. This time going in to the hospital, they found 2 kidney stones and, of course, I needed another stent. I begged my urologist to not replace the stent, but it was obvious I needed one. I have to say – so far, so good. I’m currently happy with my stent. My Dr. said he measured twice this time and put a longer tube in, hoping that it would help. I think it has so far. I’m still nervous about this, knowing that at any time it could calcify again and my bladder could become inflamed. But, for the moment, pretty good! Let’s hope it stays this way. I’m sure I’ll be writing an update in a few weeks. Ha

Just had surgery four days ago. the pain was so intense. I had a 5mm stone and for two years living the pain that even local doctors could not find. Thanks, to Providence Hospital in El Paso they fixed my problem. It was taken out but now I live with another pain. They, put in a ureteral stent inside which I live with pain discomfort and burning sensation. Its so scary knowing that I have to pee at night or every 30 mins just cause of the pain I endure afterwards. My god one pain goes away and another comes.

I went in on Dec 7, 12 to do wave laser kidney stone breaking. (for got the spelling of test) and it suck. I have been sick this year since jan. i have had many surgerys this year for many things. in jan they found a 12 mm kidney stone. due to the other surgerys and testing i needed done. iwas to wait on the kidney stone. I was not haveing much pain any way and the other 4 kidney stones i had passed on their own.. So after the year is coming to the end. i told the doc i needed to get the kidney stone out. so we did the wave laser suregry . during it , it felt like someone was htting me with a hammer in the left side. but i did have a another surgery there this year, so maybe that is why it hurt so bad. After it was over , went home. NExt day got up , was doing great . Then about 12 pm I was in the worest pain of my like, sick , not holding down food. around 4 in ther afternoon, went to the ER. got meds and was placed in a room over night. the wave test work, but the stone moved down and then got stuck again. and also found out that i now have huirna in my belly. the nest day went home, was doing ok until the next day and the again got sick, back to the ER. and placed in a room and stayed again . Dec. 11 had surgery to have the stone removed. felt better from the pain. BUT NOW HAVE the STENT in, i hated it. painful, feeling like peeping all the time, had to get diapers for adults. and they did not tell me , that this would be like this.. i got to removed the stent today dec 15. and it was much better , but tonight haveing issue like everyone else.. i hope this gets over soon . i can not peep with out pain , walk with out pain, my back hurt , leg hurts, feeling sick..

Hello fellow sufferers.

Let me tell you of my experience. Remember that though this helped me it doesn’t mean it will for everyone else. I had a 3mm Kidney Stone removed and a Stent put in, which I was told to remove 2 days after the surgery. I felt GREAT after removing the Stent, which by the way doesn’t hurt the way you think it might. It feels like you a peeing or have to pee while doing it, but just keep pulling and it will come out. It does greatly help to do this procuedure in the shower with very warm water while taking it out.

About 30 minutes of feeling great a wave of nausea and pain started, especially in the area of the Kidney, bladder and testicles. BUT HERE IS THE SECRET. After an hour of suffering my mom suggested using a HEATING pad on the kideny area and down the back and BOY WHAT an amazing result. About less than 8 minutes after starting the heating pad the pain and discomfort disappeared COMPLETELY!!! It was amazing. The heat apparently stops the Kidney from spasming after the stent is removed. I slept with the heating bad and for the first time since the surgery I slept like a baby.

The pain, but NOT as bad as yesterday, started up again in the morning, I sat in my Lazy boy recliner and put the heating pad back on and within 10 minutes I was fine enough to fall asleep again.

When it comes to eating during the first few days keep eating simple, don’t eat anything that causes gas, or hard to digest… crackers, see through soup, maybe and egg or two on a toasted bagel is perfect and of course continue to drink water, water water. Got some Benadryl to help wtih sleep and relaxing.

I will repost again after a few more days past, but I have to say the heating pad really helped me.

God bless you all … and remember you might be uncomfortable now but there are those in far worse shape than you somewhere in the world and as the famous proverb says, “THIS TOO SHALL PASS.” And it will.

This whole thing is a nightmare, I have a stone stuck by my left kidney. I just had to have the stent put in and the bladder spasms are so bad. I still need to have the lithotripsy (sp?) Surgery and removal. Last time I was able. to have my stone removed surgically but this time is too high up so they had to put in the stent. I don’t have burning which is good but the spasms are worse. The medicines vesicare and belladonna help with the spasms I just want this to be over.

so i had some stones removed last month. 2morrow i get my stent out. i was asleep the last time & now im petrified of it hurting. has any1 had a better exp then what ive read

I just completed a cystoscopy with a double “J” stent placement and ESWL for a 1.8 cm kidney stone on Nov 30th. I was “out” for the procedure. I had done a lot of reading about this procedure and that can be both good and bad. Sometimes you can worry about it more than you should. I had no ill effects whatsoever from the ESWL. The stone was crushed. My main concern was the stent itself. The first night it was very uncomfortable and I had to urinate every 2 hours. There was pressure on the bladder and there was a burning sensation when I relieved myself. There was also blood in the urine which was normal. As the days went on, my body seemed adjust to the stent and it turned out not to be as uncomfortable as I thought it would. I had a string extending from the tip of my penis which would ultimately be used in the removal of the stent. From the 2nd night on I slept rather comfortably. I never took any pain medication. There was some burning days 2 to 7 when I urinated and eventually the blood disappeared. I was taking Cipro to guard against infection. On day 8 I went back to the Urologist to have the stent removed. I honestly was more concerned about that than the procedure itself. It turned out to be a piece of cake. Absolutely minimal pain and it was done in 1 minute. The only problem I had was when I got home after the stent was removed some fragments from the kidney stone started down into the ureter and I was in complete pain. A couple of vicodin later I was fine after a few hours as the fragments passed. I feel fine now. Bottom line- this is not as bad a procedure as you think it may be. I spent needless time worrying about it from all the horrors stories I read on the internet. Now maybe I was lucky but if you need to get this done- just do it and don’t read to much into it. Good luck.

Hi, I have just had a JJ stent fitted in my right kidney, to cut a long story short….12 years ago i had cervical cancer 2B and back then i was told that my right kidney had been affected by the radiotherapy and operation and would eventually shrivel up and die, i was in a lot of pain back then and when the pain subsided i thought the kidney had gone!

Back in October this year i was delivering some training at work when a sharp pain which didn’t subside was felt in my right side of my groin, i called at the doctors who sent me to hospital who in turn gave me 3 different scans, which all showed that my kidney was still there and functioning 25% however the kidney showed that it was swollen and misshapen again after other tests it showed that i had infection in the kidney but no stones! but it did show that the kidney was not draining properly and thats when it was agreed that i would have a stent fitted and a biopsy!

Having read on the internet how painful stents were and that i should be sure that is the last resort, i had 3 consultations with my consultant as i was petrified i would not be able to stand the pain.

How glad i am to have my JJ Stent fitted! not wanting to take away the pain people have gone through and are going through but i do feel the need to let others out there know that they maybe one of the lucky ones like me who has not been in any pain what so ever, in fact i have never felt better! Yes the blood is scary! but i have not had the spasms people speak of or the pain. My urethra is seriously damaged by the radiotherapy and i am now hoping that the biopsy comes back clear, but until then my stent is to stay in place, so because of my experience i’m not so worried about having it removed now, even though i have read on forums that it is painful..!!!

I hope this helps others who are deliberating to have a stent put in place, hopefully you will be one of the extremely lucky one where the pain is minimal.

Cheers for reading my plight!

3 months ago I was diagnosed with stage 3b cervical cancer. I had had some symptoms of bleeding and abdominal pain for a few weeks (was diagnosed with adenomyosis), but then started having stabbing pains in my kidneys. After many tests, they discovered the cancer. It had blocked up my ureters and caused kidney failure. I got nephrostomy tubes (local anesthesia…needles in the back, then an IV of Fentinyl and Versed…didn’t do much because of the severe inflammation by that point of my kidneys), 10 days later had them removed and had double j stents inserted (no anesthesia of any kind…absolutely traumatizing…the narcotics had been accidentally locked up in their box with the key inside…so painful), went through six weeks of chemo, external beam radiation, and brachytherapy, and am, thank goodness, healthy enough that the stents could be removed with no more danger of kidney failure. Chemo and radiation were rough, but honestly, had I not had chronic pain from the stents, I think I would have breezed through it without many problems.

Having the stents in was a nightmare. I had no life. I have been on Tylenol, Naproxin, and Dilaudid around the clock since they were in. I couldn’t stand for more than a few minutes. Bladder spasms had me in the bathroom constantly, and were so intense my body would bear down like it was trying to birth a baby. The doctors said my stent pain was worse than normal because of the inflammation and scarring radiation causes. In any case, I got through, and scheduled stent removal at a private clinic, otherwise I would have had to have waited an extra month with agonizing and unnecessary stents in my body.

The Tuesday before last, I had the first stent removed. They don’t do both at the same time, as it is known there can be swelling. This is fine if you have one kidney working properly…if both ureters swell and block the kidneys, then obviously renal failure is a risk. Getting the stent out wasn’t a big deal. It pinched and felt awful while it was coming out, and my urethra felt funky for a while after, and the next couple of days I amped up the Dilaudid, but then things calmed down. The bladder stopped spasming, I didn’t have to pee every ten minutes, the pain in my bladder improved, and I didn’t yell out from the kidney spasms anymore which would happen at the end of urination.

But about two days after I got the second one removed (day before yesterday), I experienced this heinous pain right on and on the side of my pubic bone (Same side stent was removed), a pain that radiates into my groin, that I feel on the side of my knee, and even a little in my foot. My urologist checked me out and didn’t feel it was related to my urinary system, and thought it was radiation related. He went ahead and took the second stent out because my kidney functioning was fine. It was less painful than the first one. I took my meds regularly to avoid too much pain.

Then that night i developed pain in my pubic bone that I swear was about as bad as the pain of having babies. And I have had four babies. Naturally. No epidurals or narcotics. One labour was even forty five hours long. I am NO wimp. But this pain had me yelling and distressed. Having a baby hurts, but you get a BABY at the end of it, and you get a break from pain between contractions most of the time. Not so with this. This was sheer, pointless agony. I am sure I traumatized my husband and children.

My husband brought me to the ER. I had terrible visions of having to wait 12 hours in a waiting room in this kind of agony (I live in Canada). But when my husband wheeled me in and said the magic words “oncology patient…severe pain”, they got me a little private room and hooked me up to morphine immediately. FINALLY there was some relief. I had a gynecological exam, and they felt nothing suspicious there. I had urine tests and there was blood, but no infection. I had a CT scan, and it reported nothing unusual. They sent me home with morphine, and it has definitely been better pain relief for me. Not perfect, but better.

Even though all the experts say it doesn’t seem to be stent related, I don’t see how it could NOT be, given the advent of this pain occurred at the time of stent removal. And from reading others’ stories, it seems to me a lot of people experience post stent removal agony, even if that’s not something urologists list off hand as something that could happen, which I think makes it MORE distressing.

I wish I knew how long this pain would go on for, as it’s no fun being doped up on narcotics all the time. I have a life to live and embrace post cancer treatment, and it’s getting me down that my healing progress is so impeded by this pain.

If anyone has experienced anything similar in terms of this pubic bone/groin pain, hearing from you would be life saving.

Thanks!

hey everyone.

yea l got my stent in. and has been in for like 4 or so months. they say you shouldnt keep them in longer than 3 months. l did have an appointment to have it taken out about 1 and a half months ago. but had something l couldnt miss. and yea now dealing with all the side affects that comes with it. l will copy and paste this part.

While some patients with stents have minimal discomfort related to them, other patients will report symptoms that can range from being annoying to being severe enough that the stent has to be removed. These symptoms can include:

Sensation of needing to urinate
Seeing blood in the urine
Bladder spasms
Burning sensation during urination
Pain in the back during urination or when moving
Pain in the bladder

l have ALL of those. the worst is the massive bladder cramps just as your about to finish urination. l was taking antibiotics. but after reading that, l know its not an infection like l thought l had. because my urine is clear. its the stent. because its been in too long im guessing. because it was fine like a few weeks ago. it gets unbearable. having the massive bladder cramps. because the stent makes me need to go urinate constantly. so im constantly having that pain. its like a gas bottle exploding in your bladder. anyways thankfully l do have another appointment to have it removed in 2weeks time. wont be missing this one.lol l will try and go to the chemist tomorrow. and get the antibiotics that someone here suggested. she said it made the stent 10x more bearable. and l think she has the same symptoms as me. l hate getting stones and infections. but with degenerating kidneys (which l have had since birth) and one kidney dead and the other below 50% l guess im more prone to getting these. so yea. cant wait to have this stent removed. and can feel human again. unless those drugs the person recommended on here that says its pretty affective actually works. heres hoping. hope not many others reading this are going through the same thing.

its not fun

Hi everyone, although I am sorry others are going through this, it’s nice to know I’m not alone! Almost a year ago I had my first bout with kidney stones when I was so sick for 3 days, fever, chills, vomiting, back pain. I was admitted to the hospital in acute renal failure, with pyelonephritis and kidney stones. That saga lasted almost 2 months, I had shockwave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy, multiple stents, multiple antibiotic resistant kidney infections (finally kicked that after having a PICC line placed and doing 10 days of IV antibiotics at home). Then about a week ago I got the familiar pain again and knew it was more stones (thankfully no evidence of infection this time.) I apparently have several small stones in my right kidney but I had 3 big ones in my left – 1.3 cm, 1 cm and 9 mm. I had another ureteroscopy with laser litho and stent placed yesterday. I was *dreading* the stent as I had a horrible time with it the first few times. The first time my dr basically forget to prescribe me pyridium and it was horrible – constant feeling of having to urinate, painful bladder cramps after I would pee, complete misery. This time I am not only taking pyridium but also Vesicare. That must be making the difference because the stent is 10x more tolerable this time around. I will have this stent for 3 weeks and then it will come out. Getting it out sucks, I have done it with and without valium and there was no difference but thankfully my urologist has never had any trouble getting mine out. Anyway…apparently I am a “stone making factory”. Trying to be better about my diet and water intake. I also ordered an herbal supplement online called Renavive – hoping it will help, still waiting for it to arrive. Best of luck to all of you, kidney stones suck 🙁

My story is long! I am 36 weeks pregnant. 7 weeks ago I went to the hospital because I was having contractions every 15 minutes for about 3 hours. So I knew it wasn’t just the Braxton Hicks that I had been having. They admitted me and they gave me the Tribudilin (sp?) shot and that slowed them down but didn’t stop them completely. I was having some back pain that was a different kind of pain then I was used to so they ordered an ultrasound of my daughter and all of my organs to see if they could see if maybe it was my gallbladder as on my side of the family we have gallbladder issues. It wasn’t my gallbladder. It was my kidneys. They were swollen, infected, and unable to drain. I had no idea. They kept me over night and a urologist came in to talk to my husband and I. They said that we had to do something because my right kidney was on the verge of shutting down and I was going to lose it and my left wasn’t far behind. So they suggested stents in my kidneys that I would have to keep in until I had Rowan and then they could assess the situation. Not only would this save my kidneys, it would also help with the labor as they were saying the pain and failing of my kidneys were throwing me into labor WAY too early. So my husband and I discussed it and we opted to go ahead and have the stents puts in. Along with the stents, I would be put on quite a few medications: Pyridium which keeps my bladder and kidneys from spasming in response to the stents, Keflex to get the infection out and keep it out, Loracet because they are extremely painful. That was it at first but then I had an allergic reaction to one of the medicines and they put me on an antihive medicine. I was also losing a lot of weight because I was staying in pain continuously and had NO appetite which is bad when I’m trying to provide for my unborn child. So they put me on an anti nausea medicine. Of course all the medicine on top of pregnancy made me constipated so I was then put on a stool softener. So I was put on bed rest because I could hardly walk to the bathroom without crying I was in so much pain (I was a server so that was out of the question of course). Now, I’ve grown accustomed to the stents and the pain. However, I have been back to the hospital twice for preterm labor again. The first time Tribudulin(sp?) stopped it so I was able to go home. This last time however was different. I was admitted immediately because I was having the urge to push her out and was only 33 weeks. Not good. So they give me a shot of the Tribudulin(sp?) which did nothing. Second shot made them worse. In fact, my doctor had induced a woman earlier in the morning and my contractions were more intense, longer, and more frequent than hers. So they started me on the Magnesium sulfate, which did work but is an awful medicine! It makes you feel hot, nausea, can’t trust your legs so you have to stay in bed, no bathroom. I was also so constipated that they had to give me an enema. The magnesium makes you pretty much have no control over your body (at least that’s what it did to me). I was throwing up so hard I lost bladder control. So when they released me they gave me another medicine to stop the contractions called Procardia but I was able to stop that last friday. I’m just concerned now that the stents will get stuck or cause more complications. Just needed to vent and this seemed the place to do it.

I had my lithotripsy today after a week and a half of having the stent in….apparently my 2 stones are 1.7 cm and 2.0 cm……or as my doctor says ” the size of a ping pong ball.”….he says it’s gonna take up to 3 blast (possibly a stone)….so I’m living on vicodin and I start a new med tomorrow to help desolve them and it better ….this no ins thing sucks.

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desolve them. and it better seeing how it cost 200.00….this no ins thingsucks

I know this is long, but this is the SHORT version of my story. I had my laser lithotripsy and stents put in both kidneys on November 7th. I had 5 or 6 stones in each kidney. This is not the first time I have had this procedure. I had the exact one done about 3 years ago. That recovery went ok, some discomfort, nothing major. I went in to have the stents removed, not a pleasant experience but I was very surprised when he said they were out. An hour later, I thought I was dying. The spasms had me in the ER. I was not expecting ANY pain, let alone a pain of that magnitude. Injections of dilaudid would work for less than 10 minutes then I was moaning and crying again. Fast forward three years. After the procedure on the 7th, I had a week of HELL. Chills, sweats, fevers, excruciating pain, up every hour on the hour. Dr put me on cipro and changed my pain meds to something stronger. The stents make my kidneys and abdomen scream when I have to pee-like NOW-but you have to stay hydrated. What a circle. Dr finally agreed to take my stents out a day early, Nov 13th, so my husband and I went in prepared for a repeat of three yrs ago and how to deal with the spasms we knew were coming. On the table, lidocaine for numbing, increasingly uncomfortable, then pain, then agony, then moaning and crying and retching from me and swearing from my hubby. Finally the dr had to stop. He couldn’t get them. Too much mucous to see and then grab the stent even after flushing with water. He said I could come back in Friday and try again. Now I can barely catch my breath, I’m in so much pain. Back home with pain meds and discuss what to do. My decision, I can’t do that again. I call the office the next morning to tell the nurse I need to be put out when he goes after them again. She says “It’s a simple 5 minute office procedure.” To which I replied, “It sure wasn’t yesterday” I let her know then I would be going to the ER, because I KNOW this isn’t normal. I’ve done this before. Went to the ER, IV pain meds and fluids, ran bloodwork to make sure that I didn’t have an infection, then called my urologist who said I could come try again or call the office and schedule for OR procedure. So I did. Same nurse. Told me it would be awhile to get the OR space to work with Dr’s schedule and I shouldn’t need more pain meds, I just got some. Fortunately I work in a pharmacy and my pharmacist called and schooled the nurse on pain control. The nurse apparently had not communicated with the doc because he ok’d two new prescriptions and stents will come out Monday, the 19th. It’s been a long weekend. Continued pain, but at least I can control that. Then I find this website. FINALLY!! I’m not alone. Experiences vary not only from person to person but every episode is different. I have a fairly high tolerance for pain. Four kids, 2 ectopic pregnancies, one tube ruptured, two miscarriages…this is my idea of hell. To add insult to injury, Drs and/or their staff to be insensitive or not have knowledge of what seems to be happening on a regular basis…GRRRRRRR. So angry about the whole situation. I wish I had found this site before. It would have saved me and my loved ones a lot of worry. We were in a panic because we knew our reality, but couldn’t get info from the dr that this may happen. If tomorrow goes well, that will be the end of this chapter and I will seek out a new urologist for the follow up and results of my 48 hour urine collection. If it turns out that something is wrong…..

I got a kidney stone removed and a stent placed this morning and it hurt a lot. My doctor prescribed vicotin for the pain and phenazopyridine and oybutynin for the bladder. They all they help sooooo much. The stent with out those drugs unbearable for me! I recommend them very highly! I feel pain the only now when I urinate.
Has anyone heard if drinking lots of water helps with the stent? Thanks and hope everyone feels better!

hi im brooke i am 18 years old & i have had kidney stones since i was a year old! i have a 8 month old daughter which i had kidney stones throughout my entire pregnancy with her and i am now 28 weeks an 5 days pregnant with my son. i had a stent placed in my right kidney on tuesday bc i had to much fluid on my right kidney and the stent needed to be placed right away to be drained. i am in the worst possible pain you could ever imagin. they are leaving the stent in until after i give birth. Does anyone have any ideas on why i am in so much pain?. I have also been feeling really bad sharp pains in my vagina and cant seem to get any releif from pain meds warm baths nothing seems to help!! do any of you know what that could be coming from. I definatly dont think i am going to be able to handle having this stent in until i give birth it feels like my son is tugging and pullin at it. Everytime he moves my body shakes from the pain bc he favors the right side were the stent is placed! If any of you have any ideas or thoughts that could help me or that i could try please let me know they would be greatly appeciated!

Hi, just woke up at 2am again (6day after my laser operation here in the UK)

i was diagnosed with 2 kidney stones last December after coming down with appendicitis and here is my story of pain.

I had one large stone stuck in the kidney itself, was too large to fall down the uthera tubes on its own. On tuesday 6th nov 2012 i went under the laser treatment to break that one up as well as one stuck in the tubing. Since tuesday i have the following problems with both the stent and the pain..

1) after drinking tons of water i still get spasms from a dull ache to sharp knife plunging intensity.
2) my urine has changed from cloudy to clear
3) still not passed any stone fragments that i can see.
4) Every single time i need to pee, at the end i get what i call cramps. the pain here is on a scale 9-10

I have now been able to sleep on my left side but running low on Tramadol…using co codamol atm… anyone know what the cramp pain is?

My mother is in severe pain after having a stent placed yesterday. She is also experiencing bloating in her stomach. In addition she has vomited a few times. The discharge paperwork from the hospital says to call them if vomiting occurs. Im awaiting a call back now but wonder if this is serious enough to go to the E.R.?

Hi,

I wondered if someone could tell me whether the pain I am still getting is normal so to speak. 3 weeks ago I had a 12mm kidney stone stuck and went straight to A&E as the pain was worse than childbirth (and I’ve had 4 kids!!).

They carried out emergency surgery to laser the stone into smaller pieces and inserted a stent. My urine was like pure blood after and I was in quite a bit of pain (although not nearly as bad as when I first went in!). I was xrayed 2 days later to check the stent was in place and the urology consultant informed me that there appeared to be 2 x 4mm stones at the top of the stent waiting to come down (and was told they would pass hopefully). I drank plenty of water and eventually the pain became manageable with regular anti-spasm tablets, paracetamol & tramadol and I was discharged with the stent due for removal in 2 weeks.

Within that 2 weeks the pain I had was intermittent, uncomfortable and I couldn’t lie on my left side where the stent was inserted. On my return to hospital I was due another x-ray before the stent removal but the radiographer refused the x-ray saying that I was being exposed to too much radiation. The consultant wanted to know whether the 2 x 4mm remaining stones had passed but in the end the consultant and radiographer ended up having a “spat” with the consultant giving in. He decided to remove the stent with no local anasetic or pain relief – which I have to say hurt but not that bad more anticipation of it I think but I did nearly pass out after removal again I think shock of it all. I have been told to return in 4 weeks for the x-ray and to decide whether I have to go through the whole thing again if the stones haven’t passed…..

Anyhow it is now 1 week on and I am still getting pain in my kidney which the more I do round the house etc the worse it gets – obviously I am trying to rest whilst the 4 kids are at school but can’t just leave things to build up…is this pain normal, I was hoping to return to work next week. It doesn’t hurt to wee and I have no pain down below just in my back and left of my stomach – I am concerned that I have to wait another 3 weeks to go back and am “popping” tramadol like sweets to stop the pain?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you 🙂