2-months out and now KIDNEY STONES

Hi, everyone. I just had my 2-month anniversary and have lost 51lbs! I'd really been feeling great, until 3am Thursday morning when I woke up feeling like I was in labor! Had severe pain in my upper left back and it was radiating all the way around to my lower abdomen (felt like severe menstrual cramps - but I've had a hysterectomey!). When I went to the bathroom, I also felt extreme pressure like I've felt with UTI's in the past. I was able to get into the urologist by 9:30 and they sent me for a CT scan. Well, I've apparently got 2 large stones. One is 5cm and is in the tube between my kidney and bladder (left side) and the other is still in my right kidney. I'm home on pain meds until Monday morning. If I haven't passed the left one, the doctor will have to do something to go in and get it. This is a whole new experience for me - has anyone else dealt with kidney stones either before or after their surgery? The doctor did say that the high protein diet and the extra calcium we take are contributers to kidney stones (he is supportive of the WLS, though). He said I should be taking magnesium along with my calcium and it would help keep it from forming stones. He didn't say HOW MUCH magnesium, though. One other thing - as bad as my pain was on Thursday, it's not that severe right now. Could I have passed a 5cm stone and NOT known it? They gave me this little collapsable cup/strainer thing that I'm supposed to pee into, but I get tired of peeing all over my hands, so I don't use it everytime!

Patti, I'm so sorry you are having kidney stones! You will hate my husband, he has them regularly and only knows that he's having them when they plink in the toilet. No pain, isn't that amazing? Hope that yours are gone soon and no more. Let us know if you find out how much magnesium to take, my husband still won't go see a urologist so we are totally in the dark about what to do for his diet to make him stop making these stones. Is this worse than labor? I've often heard people say that kidney stones are like having a baby. Hope you feel much better soon! Molly