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KIDNEY STONES ~ ouch!

Well, I'm home but just got a message from the doctors office. A CT scan just before I got discharged shows they didn't get it all out and want to go in again. :(
BTW, I've taken no pain meds since leaving the hospital.
 
Well, I'm home but just got a message from the doctors office. A CT scan just before I got discharged shows they didn't get it all out and want to go in again. :(
BTW, I've taken no pain meds since leaving the hospital.
Superman!
I hope you've been instructed to cut down on sodium and protein for a while, and stay hydrated.
 
Superman!
I hope you've been instructed to cut down on sodium and protein for a while, and stay hydrated.
I don't recall seeing anything about diet restrictions. They said to go about my business except lifting anything over 10 pounds due to the incision in my back.
I'm staying hydrated but it really hurts to pee (pain level 9 yesterday, down to 5 today). Something about bladder being upset from the removal of the Foley catheter. They gave me some med who's name starts with a "P" and makes my urine orange (not FloMax) which does seem to help.
 
Doctors office just called as I wanted to better understand what's going to happen next (to get the remaining stone(s) out).
I go to the operating room. They put me to sleep. :)
They remove the stent from the bladder to the kidney
They then do a ureteroscopy (go up from the penis through the ureter to the kidney) and laser blast the stones in the kidney then get the stone fragments out.
Remove that scope and reinsert a stent.
I go get the stent removed a week or so later.

I'm hoping I get some sort of insurance discount (not charged full price twice) since it wasn't finished completely the first time.
 
I don't recall seeing anything about diet restrictions. They said to go about my business except lifting anything over 10 pounds due to the incision in my back.
I'm staying hydrated but it really hurts to pee (pain level 9 yesterday, down to 5 today). Something about bladder being upset from the removal of the Foley catheter. They gave me some med who's name starts with a "P" and makes my urine orange (not FloMax) which does seem to help.
Prazosin.
No, that's pyridium that makes your pee orange.
 
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