Stone still with me. I have hours long blocks where it doesn't hurt and have adapted the adage told to new mothers of "sleep when the baby sleeps" to "sleep when the stone sleeps" or I'd have no sleep at all.
And now it's the weekend. My urologist friend said no Cleveland Clinic urologist would come in at night or on the weekend to deal with a 3mm stone without evidence of infection or 10 days to 2 weeks of no progression. Again, their data shows 99% of people can pass a 3mm stone. My husband leaves tomorrow for a weeklong business trip and all my friends are out of town, too, so I'm on my own to deal with this.
Then there's the poop problem. As in: I haven't had one. I had a small poop Tuesday morning, then the kidney pain started and I was given morphine. Since then it's been percocet (not round the clock -- only 3 pills a day as I am trying to ration them and to reduce constipation.) I've been taking 3 Colace a day. My abdomen is distended and there is a hard ridge across it in the general area of the transverse colon. (I can;t say I'm uncomfortable from this, though, as kidney stone pain supersedes any other pain.) On Thursday morning I used a Dulcolax suppository with bisocodyl. Fifteen minutes later I thought it was working but the only thing that came out was the melted suppository. Friday morning I used a Fleet saline enema. Again, five minutes later I thought it was working but the only thing that came out was the solution itself, essentially clean. It continued to exit for the next hour or so but no poop came with it. This morning I took 3T of Milk of Magnesia but three hours later, nada. Three different laxatives and none successful is not good. I have eaten hardly anything this week -- the first two days all I had was one Premier Protein drink, the last two days I have had the PP in the morning and the broth from ramen noodles in the afternoon. I have choked down a spoonful or two of peanut butter for the fat thinking that might help - no. Without any bowel movement, I do not feel safe eating and further blocking up the works. Gas is passing so there is some open channel but I fear the rest is dried out and impacted. I really don't know what to do and I'm starting to get concerned.
I haven't taken my vitamins all week for fear they would be further constipating. My window of opportunity for taking them is narrow anyway as I can;t swallow them when I am in pain and nauseous.
Meanwhile as soon as the pain fires up I walk endless laps around the family room for hours and hours. My dogs are baffled by this and tried to follow me until they decided this was nuts and instead just sit and watch me. My legs and hips ache from that despite the fact that I usually do an hour long aerobics class 5x a week and do a 4 miles power walk 4x a week. (Guess I'm using different muscles.)
I've tried a heating pad. It may help a little bit. The nerves in my skin around the kidney are hypersensitive now -- even the water from the shower hurt. I tried draping myself over my big exercise ball. This too helped a little bit as I could rock back and forth on it without pressure on my kidney area. I was so exhausted on Thursday after no sleep the prior night that I was dozing off on it for 20 minutes despite the pain. Amazed that I didn't roll off.
I'm rambling. But maybe something here might help someone else. (And maybe someone has advice for the poop problem.)
