@tsavorite wrote:
@Carol Diane wrote:
Yes, I've had a kidney stone which was considered on the larger size and my urologist knew it wasn't going to pass due to how low it was in the kidney. Funny thing was, I had no idea I had one...I felt great. I had lithotripsy done to break up the stone and pass the fragments. It was no big deal at all. That was about 10 years ago. I now have a tiny one in the same spot. It hasn't grown in years. My sister and daughter also have a stone and they're both symptom free and do nothing about them. I take supplements to try to keep them at bay. So far so good. The urologist said the one I have now could be a fragment left behind from the lithotripsy.
If you didn't have any pain then how did you know to go see a urologist to get a ultrasound to see for kidney stones? Is that something we can request getting done even if we have no symptoms? I have always wondered if I have any! and I do take calicum for my bone health.
@tsavorite wrote:
@Carol Diane wrote:
Yes, I've had a kidney stone which was considered on the larger size and my urologist knew it wasn't going to pass due to how low it was in the kidney. Funny thing was, I had no idea I had one...I felt great. I had lithotripsy done to break up the stone and pass the fragments. It was no big deal at all. That was about 10 years ago. I now have a tiny one in the same spot. It hasn't grown in years. My sister and daughter also have a stone and they're both symptom free and do nothing about them. I take supplements to try to keep them at bay. So far so good. The urologist said the one I have now could be a fragment left behind from the lithotripsy.
If you didn't have any pain then how did you know to go see a urologist to get a ultrasound to see for kidney stones? Is that something we can request getting done even if we have no symptoms? I have always wondered if I have any! and I do take calicum for my bone health.
@tsavorite wrote:
@Carol Diane wrote:
Yes, I've had a kidney stone which was considered on the larger size and my urologist knew it wasn't going to pass due to how low it was in the kidney. Funny thing was, I had no idea I had one...I felt great. I had lithotripsy done to break up the stone and pass the fragments. It was no big deal at all. That was about 10 years ago. I now have a tiny one in the same spot. It hasn't grown in years. My sister and daughter also have a stone and they're both symptom free and do nothing about them. I take supplements to try to keep them at bay. So far so good. The urologist said the one I have now could be a fragment left behind from the lithotripsy.
If you didn't have any pain then how did you know to go see a urologist to get a ultrasound to see for kidney stones? Is that something we can request getting done even if we have no symptoms? I have always wondered if I have any! and I do take calicum for my bone health.
Hi @tsavorite ,
I'll share my own personal experiences with you as a stone patient, as everyone's experiences tend to be different.
For me, I tend to know when I have them, as they tend to want to move and pass out of my left kidney when I have them.
For whatever reason, it is only my left kidney that has a history of producing stones.
I first found out that I had them a few years ago, when I developed really severe pain in my left hip area/lower intestinal area. It also presented as referred pain, as really severe gas pains.
At first, that is what I thought that they were, as I also have a history of GI problems, so I was thinking that maybe I was just dealing with some GI issues.
I tried to relieve the pain at home, but nothing that I did worked, and I felt that something must be seriously wrong in the middle of the night due to the kind of pain that I was having.
To me, kidney stone pain is on the same level as gall stone pain, if anyone is also familiar with passing gall stones. I also had gall stones too until I had my gall blader removed, so I was thinking that if the pain was as bad like gall stone pain, something must be going on.
So, I had my husband take me to the E.R. where the doctor ran some tests and it was determined that my body was trying to pass a kidney stone.
I followed up with our primary care doctor afterwards who referred me to a Urologist.
If I remember correctly, that kidney stone passed on its own at that particular time, but after that, I had experience with a few others over the years that didn't, where they had to be removed by what is called a Ureteroscopy with a stent placed in afterwards.
Depending on the size of the stone/s, sometimes the doctor will see if the stone/s will pass on their own if they're small enough and if they're not causing any kind of serious issues to the body--stress to the urinary tract, sickness, fever, inflammation, and so on.
The doctor can check for stones in various ways, depending on the type of stones that the body is producing. They may show up on an x-ray if they're large enough to be seen that way. He can also send you for a CT Scan, and he can also do a urine test which can also show if you're producing stones.
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