Stent for 6 weeks to lazer my stones!
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Hi, this is my 2nd stent to lazer my stones in my right kidney, they couldn't get the lazer tube up So the stent needs to be in for 6 week, is it worth it? The lazering after does it make the pain worse my surgeon even didn't seem confident!.. I am so uncomfortable can't even stand for long and the urge to wee all the time is so bad!.. I am finding sitting on a hot water bottle really helps the urge.. but any medicine to help with the pain?.. I don't know weather just to ring and get it removed?.. don't know if I can manage the weeks coming let alone going to work!
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lesley_ann_53 katie47081
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Hi Katie
I only had my stent in for 2 weeks think 6 weeks a bit too long I would check. They are so uncomfortable. My first urologist couldn't get my stone out didn't seem confident then referred myself to a more highly skilled urologist in the city. So much better had keyhole surgery and got rid of it and no stent . Maybe see another urologist take care . Let us know how you get on Lesley x
katie47081
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I have had key hole surgery 6 times and they can only manage to get rid of one at a time, they call them the stag horn ones very complex ones so they are wanting to try lazering, however I don't wanna wait 6 weeks and then the lazor doesn't work either with having all the pain on top!.. thank u for replying!..
william_k18823 katie47081
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I'm so sorry about what you going through, for about 10 years or so I have been passing them about 2-3 a month, I get so sick all I do is vomit sometimes, most of the time I just pace the floor, and become very depressed. In 2010 my doctor put me on flowmax and a water pill, which stopped oxygen to be received in the brain. That caused me to have a stroke. So since then I have slowly become a recluse.
sarah87162 katie47081
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I had several kidney stones all last year and finally had them removed by keyhole surgery at beginning of December. Had catheter in for 3 days and stent in for a week. In hospital for a week. They managed to get to all the stones. Mine were what they call partial staghorn. It was complicated because I was born with horseshoe kidneys (they are joined together) so access to the stones was difficult.
Take care and keep in touch
Sarah xxx
katie47081 sarah87162
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Hi Sarah, so they manage to use key hole surgery and got rid of all?.. I've had them for 12 years now and it's just endless, I've had key hole but it never gets rid of all of them, where abouts did you get them done to?.. because yours sound complex too and they still manage to get rid of them?.. I don't understand why it doesn't work for me.. it's so frustrating !.. did u have a drainage tube in too? I had one in for 2 days after key hole to drain any fragment stones out..
Katie xx
sarah87162 katie47081
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He was the fourth urologist I saw last year and I was really fed up with being referred to someone else all the time.
However at the end of the day I did get the best person to do the operation.
Because I live in Wales I had to get funding from my local health board to have treatment in England.
Mr Keeley said to me after the operation that even then he was not sure he had got to everything.
When I had a scan a week later just before they discharged me I was told that there was nothing there all was clear.
Makes me realize how lucky I have been.
Sarah
katie47081 sarah87162
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He was the exact same surgeon I had, through key hole he only managed to get rid of one, this was in 2015 . I had a phone call today I have my op a month tommorow so it's a shorter time then I thought so I'm pleased with that! Just hope the lazer works! That's great it would for you tho! Guessing every case is different.
sarah87162 katie47081
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Yes everyone is different and I have been extremely lucky.
I am due to go back and see Mr Keeley at end of May and I am guessing he will discharge me from his care.
Do let me know how you are doing.
Lots of love Sarah xxx