Clematis
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Next couple of WEEKS @OldBroad ? He's leaving stent in for weeks? Damn, girl. I'm sorry. Mine was only in for 24 hours and I didn't have the cystitis feeling. A young woman I ran into (same urologist) had hers in for 3 days and said she too had the urgency feeling from it. He made her come in to have it removed and since her lithotripsy was on a Friday, she had a 3 day wait. No one knows why he instructed me to pull it out myself, but I saw research that patients report less discomfort if they can do it themselves vs having doc or nurse do it. I didn't have any pain removing it but I was thoroughly freaked out b/c I had no clue how long the thing was. (Maybe that was a good thing?) I said OMG OMG OM elfin G over and over and over again.
A nephrologist recommended a small coffee filter in the 4" diameter sieve if I wanted to catch "sand" but meh I only bothered with what was big enough to be caught in a sieve since I'd had several tested by that point.
University of Chicago urology website is a wealth of info -- the best source of info I've found, much to the annoyance of my Cleveland Clinic docs. Haha. Frederick Coe MD who wrote much of the stuff is awesome. There are endless pages as everything in blue (and theres something in blue in every paragraph) links to yet another topic and data.
A nephrologist recommended a small coffee filter in the 4" diameter sieve if I wanted to catch "sand" but meh I only bothered with what was big enough to be caught in a sieve since I'd had several tested by that point.
University of Chicago urology website is a wealth of info -- the best source of info I've found, much to the annoyance of my Cleveland Clinic docs. Haha. Frederick Coe MD who wrote much of the stuff is awesome. There are endless pages as everything in blue (and theres something in blue in every paragraph) links to yet another topic and data.