HI, where to begin.... last june i started getting sever kidney pain in my left flank, which followed by blood in the urine, this started by happening once or twice a week,i went to the doctors who said they thought it was a stone, i had an ultra sound/xrays/c.t scar with no stone showing, by now the pain was every day and blood in my urine 70% of the time (october) in novermber i had a cystoscapy?? where they have a look at my bladder, everything looked fine, then in december i went under anesthetic and they put a camera all they way up into both kidneys, Nothing was found in the right one, But the left they found "as they described it" a rough patch of skin about a centermeter wide, but being a small hospital they didnt have the lazer equipment to get rid of it, i am booked in for the week after next to go under anesthetic again, which scares me as last time i was in so much pain i was on morphine and tramadol for 3 days, the blood i can handle, but the pain is really worrying and getting to me and i am absaloutly terrified that its cancer or kidney failure, has anyone heard of anything like this before?? they wernt sure in the hospital what it was, they seem at a bit of a loose end, any replies would be much appreciated : )