My First Kidney Stone

[kybearfuzz]

After work yesterday, I played the good boy and went to the gym. I'd been having some lower back pain lately, but attributed that to some recent weightlifting and sleeping in a hotel bed over the weekend. I figured a good workout might stretch things out.

So after jumping into my gym clothes in the locker room, I walked into the restroom to take a whiz before sweating it up. I felt a sharp jolt of intense pain down there and I looked down to notice I was peeing blood.

Now this was a first and I felt the panic that Carrie must have when she thought she was bleeding to death in the shower. So I pulled up, washed my hands, went back to my locker, threw on my sweat shirt, grabbed my gym, and bee-lined for my car.

At my doctors' office, the receptionist found (or created) an immediate appointment for me, after I told her about the bloody urine. Graphic images seem to express urgency.

After a urine test and a discussion of the symptoms, the conclusion was that I had unknowingly and likely given birth to my first kidney stone.

My lower back is still hurting a bit. I'm wondering how many more of those little bastards are creeping around in there.

Comments

[dendren.livejournal.com]

ok... now wtf is going on here. I have so many on my flist, myself included, that have had kidney stones in the last 6 months. Hopefully yours was just a one time thing. Did they do an x-ray or ct-scan at all? It wasn't until x-rays that they discovered I actually had a large stone in my kidney that needed to be dealt with...

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

There was no testing done, except on a urine sample. They came to the conclusion based on my symptoms. Now I'm wondering if I shouldn't go back.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't sweat it too much unless your symptoms continue. I had trace amounts of blood in my urine for a year, that should have clued the doc in to the fact there was something wrong. It may not hurt to follow up in a few weeks for another urine test just to see if there is still blood in it or not. And drink lots and lots of water to clear those kidneys out.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

That is actually the strange part. When I went to the doctor's office and gave a sample, they said they didn't find any blood in it. This was probably a 1/2 hour or so after the gym episode where there was visible blood. If it wasn't blood, I'd like to know what other red substance I can produce like that.

And I've been drinking water, a bottle every few hours, since.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

maybe (I'm not a doctor I'm not a doctor I'm not a doctor ;) that just means you passed everything and all is clear. Did you actually see stones/gravel come out when you pee'd the blood?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I never saw the stone, but I felt it "pop out" so to speak, which was the part that hurt. I then noticed the blood in the water.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

ah, got it. Actually for me there was zero pain when it popped out. It was all the time before hand when it was still in my kidney. I didn't even feel any of it come out the pee hole, just got used to seeing bunches of gravel in the bowl for a while LOL

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Ugh... you're right, I just saw some "sand" in the bowl this morning...

[dendren.livejournal.com]

well, that's still good news really. Better out of you than in your kidney. But, I suspect you may want to follow up and make sure there isn't a larger stone in there trying to break apart.