Guess who got admitted to the hospital yesterday!

[Spiky Bugger]

When are they going to spring you? Are you still pissing rocks?

I get out Thursday, later this morning. The problem is that I CANNOT piss rocks...they are boulders...too big to fit. So it's a two-stage procedure this time. First the stent to, hopefully, relieve pressure and let some urine pass. Then, based on where these rocks are located, another round of ECSW, to try to make them small enough to pass.

Second round probably in March. Mr Sue had to move his angioplasty to accommodate my crisis, but he needs to get his cardiac stent asap, so he goes next.

And this is why we need to live near MiniSue. And meanwhile, they will need us to watch her BFs daughter--the one who calls me Queen Susie--so we can depend on each other for what are minor logistical issues when we are close by, but huge logistical challenges when we are 300 miles apart.

It takes a village...

 

[Spiky Bugger]

So sorry; that must be very painful if you were admitted. I got drugs and was told to drink lots of water before I was sent on my merry way from the ER. I'm still passing sand from my last lithotripsy in Nov, but very little pain with it. Urologist wants me to change my diet from high oxylate foods. Looks like I'll be doing 24 hr. urine collections every 8 weeks until I make some improvement in that area. He said my WLS surgery has already put me behind the 8 ball. I'd rather the pain of passing stones that the problems of super morbid obesity.

Rocks of aged made by me,
and hiding in my left kidney.

Yup...first time dilaudid didn't make it all go away.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Yikes! So sorry to hear this!!! Hope your pain subsides and you break out SOON!!!!!

TY...

 

[Spiky Bugger]

So sorry SB! I hope they are going to give you some good pain meds. I've never had it and hope I never do. I here it's right up there with labor pains!

It is...except the prize at the end, and with stones there may not be an "end," is better with labor!

 

[MyNewLife]

You know, Spiky with your profile picture and the image of that person being loaded, I'm sitting here pitying the hospital staff.. I sure do hope you are feeling better soon and if not, I hope they keep you loaded so you don't know the difference.

I mean can you imagine that woman in the pic high on pain killers...OMG LOL

 

[SHales]

Do you, or does anyone here, know how close the stem cell transplant research they are doing at UCLA is to being used on people with IC? I ran across one woman that was on the list for a bladder transplant but I would think that would only work for some cases. I don't know enough about any of this but I wish you remission and hope for a cure. I admire your fortitude.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Do you, or does anyone here, know how close the stem cell transplant research they are doing at UCLA is to being used on people with IC? I ran across one woman that was on the list for a bladder transplant but I would think that would only work for some cases. I don't know enough about any of this but I wish you remission and hope for a cure. I admire your fortitude.

THIS TIME, it is not...as far as the uro and I can figure...related to IC. "Just" stones.

What I have read about IC surgery is that some people have gone so far as to have their bladder removed... to no avail. So the pain must have been coming from somewhere else.

 

[star0210]

I've had kidney stones once...years ago pre-WLS. It was godawful painful! I'm so sorry you're dealing with that!!
So why aren't they blasting those things and pulverizing them? Or is that what ecsw does? I don't know what that is.

 

[newanatomy]

Not the reason for the bladder issues. I won the trifecta...InterstitialCystitis, Stones and Frequent UTIs. Lucky me!!

I was hoping that it might be aggravating all of those things, so that in getting rid of the kidney stones, you would get some relief from the others. Well we all know what wishful thinking gets you. . .

 

[k9ophile]

I've had kidney stones once...years ago pre-WLS. It was godawful painful! I'm so sorry you're dealing with that!!
So why aren't they blasting those things and pulverizing them? Or is that what ecsw does? I don't know what that is.

Yep, ECSW or ECSL is a pulverizing procedure. I had it twice last fall for my nickel sized stone. I was under general anesthesia for a brief time and a very quick recovery from that anesthesia. I am still passing various sized stones, gravel, and sand. In fact, I passed 5 fragments this morning. Every time I see a nickel I shudder just trying to imagine what it would have been like to pass something like that.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I've had kidney stones once...years ago pre-WLS. It was godawful painful! I'm so sorry you're dealing with that!!
So why aren't they blasting those things and pulverizing them? Or is that what ecsw does? I don't know what that is.

These are, btw, probably...most likely, related to insufficient calcium in my gut. (Diana will correct whatever part of that is wrong.)

I have had stones blasted, lithotripsy or what used to be ECSW, but is now ESWL. (EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY.). New stones "are born," the ones they missed grow and so on. Later, I had ureteroscopy, where they go ALL the way in, via the urethra, through the bladder and into the kidney, blast stuff, and drag the pieces out with Bob the Builder toys.

Percutaneous ureteroscopy is more invasive...hole in back...then into kidney...drag stuff out.

 

[Sheanie]

Wow. I hope you are better now. Though from what I understand, it's an ongoing pain in the bladder. ****.

I've got another round of UTI's going on as well. This sucks.

 

[DianaCox]

OK, I almost passed a mouthful of diet A&W cream soda through my nose, which would not have been nearly as bad as what that pic represents.

 

[brooklyngirl]

These are, btw, probably...most likely, related to insufficient calcium in my gut. (Diana will correct whatever part of that is wrong.)

I have had stones blasted, lithotripsy or what used to be ECSW, but is now ESWL. (EXTRACORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY.). New stones "are born," the ones they missed grow and so on. Later, I had ureteroscopy, where they go ALL the way in, via the urethra, through the bladder and into the kidney, blast stuff, and drag the pieces out with Bob the Builder toys.

Percutaneous ureteroscopy is more invasive...hole in back...then into kidney...drag stuff out.

{{{Shuddering}}}

 

[hilary1617]

I'd say feel better soon, Sue, but on Dilaudid and Hydrocodone, I'm guessing you're feeling um, *good*.... So instead, I hope that everything comes out okay. Hang in there!