Kidney Stone Update

I need some June Bug lovin'. Friday I am going in to get the stones in my left kidney blasted. I have been having trouble with the doctors and with Kaiser too and am happy to finally be getting them taken care of. I had less trouble getting my WLS. I have 2 stones in my left kidney. One is blocking the tube from the kidney to the bladder almost completely. I have one stone in my right kidney and will get that blasted in 6 weeks. My stones are too big to do them all in one day. I have been really lucky not to be in pain from these stones. I have read horror stories about the incredible pain people have with their stones. The last couple weeks I have been having twinges of pain in my lower left groin area. It got so bad on the 19th I went to the ER. It was a total nightmare. We got to the ER at 8:30pm and did not get home until after 10am the next day. It is now the record for my family of time spent in the ER. Luckily DS was off school that week but DH and I both had to miss work. They attributed the pain to my kidney stones but I am not convinced that was the problem. It just seemed that once they found out I had stones they latched onto it and that was THE diagnosis. They looked for ovarian cysts but did not find any. They did find fibroid tumors. I did not know I had them. If you have info on these please let me know. I really thought it was my hernia stangulating but it wasn't. I am thinking it is bowel problems. I will have to wait and see if I still have the pain after I get the stones blasted on Friday. Stones in the right kidney are not going to present pain in my left lower groin. So if the pain is still there then I have another problem. Anyway I will be out of commission for a few days after Friday. I was happy to get the appt on Friday so I can rest on the weekend and not have to take paid days off. Michelle

Sorry to hear about your health problems Michelle. Hopefully Friday's intervention does the trick. I can't remember the details of my neuroanatomy course, but I am guessing that it could be possible that referred pain from your stones could end up in your groin. I'm not sure enough to bet on it though. I do hope all goes well for you tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you and will send some healing thoughts and energy your way. Lori

Thank you so much Lori. I am hoping it is pain transfer too. I would hate for it to be something ELSE. Michelle

Its friday morning and I just found this but I said a prayer for you and just know you are going to be alright. Blessings Hugss Amy