T&P - Kidney Stone

[paintdadanta]

Long story short, I'm stuck in L&D until tonight or tomorrow morning with what my OB suspects to be a kidney stone.

I had severe pain in my mid-back that started Saturday morning that made me really sick throughout the day. I wasn't too concerned with my back history and still feeling alot of movement. Sunday was a brief reprieve but this morning went back to severe again so we called the on call nurse who urged us to come in.

Right now I'm on lots of IVs and pain meds but baby is perfectly fine. Just hoping to get through this lil bump in the road and either pass the stone or monitoring go well enough that I can go home and back to my own bed.


*** UPDATE ***

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers! I was allowed to go home in the mid-afternoon but ended up returning again since meds wouldn't take the edge off. So now it's back with IVs and all the good stuff until tomorrow.

*** UPDATE 2 ***

Didn't go as well I hoped but should finally be getting better. Still in the hospital and had to have a stent placed under general anesthesia. While I was under they found the stone as it was too large to leave the kidney, they broke it up to remove it and I'm being monitor until tomorrow. I'm hoping this will be the end of this mess. Kudos to those who deal with this regularly, I don't know how you do it.


Finally home!

[flippinchica]

I'm sorry you are dealing with this. FX the stone passes soon.

[darksidefootprint]

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this! I hope you are able to get some relief!

[heathersf11]

I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. FX that you pass the stone quickly, and that you get to go home to your own bed soon. ((((Hugs))))

[hmr11913]

Oh no, I'm sorry that you're dealing with a kidney stone!! I'm glad to hear that baby is okay though. Hope you feel better soon!

[mpiemont]

Ugh- hope you get some relief soon!

[mpiemont]

I know backstreetpixie has been dealing with this too!

[backstreetpixie]

Oh hon I'm so sorry! i am working on my second one this pregnancy. It is just awful. ::hugs:: Hope you can pass it soon and that there is only one! Here hold my hand, i know what you are going through.

[ProfessorChaos]

Ugh, backstreetpixie are you contagious? So sorry you're dealing with this!! Glad you're getting lots of good meds.

[backstreetpixie]

Feb 9, 2015 16:00:30 GMT -5 ProfessorChaos said:

Ugh, backstreetpixie are you contagious? So sorry you're dealing with this!! Glad you're getting lots of good meds.

I hope not! I wouldn't wish it on anyone!

[downtheshore]

I'm glad that baby is fine. I hope you feel better and can go home soon.

[kate6214]

I hope this passes quickly!(((Hugs)))

[mrsk91011]

Oh no, I hope it passes and you can get some relief soon!

[stinybean]

Oh no paintdadanta ! I'm so sorry you're having to go through this sweetie! I hope it passes soon.

I'm glad little one is doing well! ((HUGS))

[stinybean]

backstreetpixie I'm sorry you're dealing with stones too! I hope yours pass soon too!

[dawnstar898]

Oh no! I hope it passes quickly and you get some relief. So sorry you have to go through this

[heartpresidents]

Ugh, I hope it passes soon! So sorry!

[mrskblack11]

Thinking about you! I have witnessed my DH experience 3 kidney stones and know you must be in immense pain. Praying that your stone passes quickly.

[buttercup509]

I hope it passes soon!

[matiekae]

Sorry you're going through this. Sending well wishes your way!!

[paintdadanta]

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers! I was allowed to go home in the mid-afternoon but ended up returning again since meds wouldn't take the edge off. So now it's back with IVs and all the good stuff until tomorrow.

backstreetpixie - oh no, I didn't know you had been fighting with these too. Our bodies must have impeccable timing unfortunately for us. Hope yours works it's way out soon!

[backstreetpixie]

paintdadanta. Thanks. Hope your stone passes soon too! Have you ever had one before? I have had 18 before ever being pregnant and passed one a week ago and am working on a second. Since i am prone to them i am not horribly surprised i got them because it is easier to get them while pregnant. It can take up to a month or more to pass them sometimes depending on the size. If they send you home without passing it again a few things that can help: lemon juice. Lots of it. Helps break the stone down. Put it in water if you can't drink it straight. Avoid Tea. It has a lot of oxalate and most stones are calcium oxalate. Do not avoid milk though you need it. But calcium supplements can cause stones. Heat where the pain is helps. When i had them while not pregnant i would take super hot baths. But we can't do that while pregnant. Apple cider vinegar mixed in water may help break it up too. And lottttts of fluid. Like over 2L a day. Avoid dark colored sodas the coloring had a lot of oxalate in it. ::hugs:: hope we pass the stones TODAY! And i hope there is only one! My docs won't do much for me as I am 32 weeks and they are afraid going in to look will cause preterm labor. =-/ so they sent me home with pain killers to "use sparingly" also they won't look with ultrasound because stones are hard if not impossible to see that way so i don't know how many or how bit they are! ::sigh::

[paintdadanta]

backstreetpixie I don't know how you do it. This was my first and I hope my last. I'm still in the hospital, they finally put in a stent and found the that the stone was too large to fit through the hole to travel down. They broke it up to remove it and in hoping to go home in the morning. Have you ever had any get stuck before?

[backstreetpixie]

I never had a stent or uteroscopy but i had one on each side the size of an inch broken up by lithotripsy. (Sound waves) in 2006. I hate to tell you that once you have had one your chances of having another within 5 years is 50%. Hope you never do! Drink at least 2L of water daily to try and prevent it. Glad they broke it up and you will get to go home. I passed 2 today. One was 9mm!!

[mrsg80intn]

Hugs.  This sounds like it sucks.

[noeliav]

Sending you hugs and good thoughts. That sounds horrible.

[medic7979]

*lurking*

Glad you're doing ok Bookish!!

[backstreetpixie]

Did you get to go home? Hope you are feeling better!

[kate6214]

I hope today is a better day!

[paintdadanta]

backstreetpixie, ouch - I don't know how you deal with these on a regular basis.


Finally went home yesterday, now I just get to lay around until I can pull out the stent on Monday. Thanks everyone for the T&Ps, I'm just happy to finally be out of hospital and hopeful no more trips til June this time.