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by: Marsha on Mon, Mar 24 2008
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I started having urgency feelings and lack of urine in Feb. On our way to Punta Cana, I experienced blood in my urine in the airport bathroom. When we got to our resort, I was relieved to find out that there was a pharmacy there and you could buy antibiotics without seeing a doctor. I started having discomfort in my left flank area as I purchased the Cipro. I took it for 3 days and everything felt fine. When we returned to the states, I called my internist and reported what had happened and she said as long as everything cleared up, I should be ok.

Five days later I started with the urgency feeling again and called the dr. and was told to go to the lab and give an urine specimen. This showed microscopic blood and protein. She put me on Sulfa for 3days and told me to get another urine test done in five days. Still blood showed up. I asked her for a CT which she ok’d and it showed I had a 5cm stone in my left kidney. The next day I started with more bladder spasms and then pain on my right flank.

I went to the ER and had another CT and this one showed I has a stone on the right side, also. The reason this didn’t show up on the first CT was that they only did an abdominal scan and should have also ordered a pelvic scan. This stone was lower and ultimately the one I’ve been battling for 5 days. I was told to take Flomax and strain my urine. No stone yet! I am also on Levaquin. I have a KUB ordered for next Thursday and I suppose I’ll be hearing from the urolgist as to what the game plan will be. Can anyone out there give me any hope that I will pass this soon? I was hoping to have an Easter stone.
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March 2008

  • kidney stones - by Marsha - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
    I started having urgency feelings and lack of urine in Feb. On our way to Punta Cana, I experienced blood in my urine in the airport bathroom. When we got to our resort, I was relieved to find out that there was a pharmacy there and you could buy antibiotics without seeing a doctor. I started having discomfort in my left flank area as I purchased the Cipro. [more..]
  • BABY STONE - by TEONIE - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
    I WAS TOLD I HAD A MED SIZEDF STONE AND IT WAS CAUSING OH BOY PAIN AND I WAS PUT IN THE HOSPIAL VIA EMERGENCY ROOM THE NEXT DAY THEY TOLD ME IT WAS 5.5 MM AND THEY TRYED A URITER [ureter] TUBE BUT THAT DIDENT WORK [more..]
  • kidney stone history - by da - (Thu, Mar 20 2008)
    i’m a 48 year old male who started producing calcium kidney stones beginning in my late twenties 28. for the next ten years i would pass one stone 2-4 mm once every two years or so. [more..]
  • IS THERE HOPE? - by BJ - (Wed, Mar 19 2008)
    I am a 58 year old women who suffered with a back ache for years. I would go to the Dr. and he just said to exercise and that nothing was wrong. In July I went to a Chiopracter to be adjusted and she found two large stones by doing an xray before adjusting me. [more..]
  • Weekly recurrent kidney stones - by Crystal - (Wed, Mar 12 2008)
    My husband was diagnosed with kidney stones in November of 2006 at the age of 22. His family has a history of uric acid stones and gout so he knew what to expect when having a stone. No one thought anything of it until things started to get worse. [more..]
  • failed nephrolithotomy - by Helen. - (Fri, Mar 07 2008)
    I had a which 3.3cm stone in my right kidney which caused my kidney to atrophy and is now functioning at only 30% or less. I lived with constant pain for six years with doctors telling me I had irritable bowel syndrome and fobbing me off after countless tests, colonoscopies etc. [more..]

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