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Kidney Stone stuck in Urethra?
My husband started feeling pain from a kidney stone early Sunday morning, Monday night we were in the ER due to extreme nausea which is not normal when he passes a stone. They did a CT scan and said that the stone was in the Urethra. That was late Monday night, it is now late Thursday night and he has still not passed the stone. Due to his nausea (somewhat controlled by medication) he is unable to "flush" his system. He is drinking a decent amount of water, but not what he should be drinking to help this process along.
My question, is it "normal" that the stone has not passed at this point? Can it get stuck in the Urethra? When should we start beingconcerned? Are there any signs we should be looking for to tell us it is stuck?
He has not had a fever at all during this period.
My question, is it "normal" that the stone has not passed at this point? Can it get stuck in the Urethra? When should we start beingconcerned? Are there any signs we should be looking for to tell us it is stuck?
He has not had a fever at all during this period.
Geez, I hope you're okay.
A kidney stone (singular) can easily turn out to be STONES. Plural. Incredibly, mutant, toxic nuclear painful and just plain HURT, A LOT, multiple kidney stones.
Kidney stones can pass and poof - all gone. Then another - or a few others - can make their ugly journey into your ureter days or weeks later. This experience is not fun. I speak from experience. One little 5 mm just about made me grind the enamel off my teeth - but the lovely wretched staghorn model at a whopping 9+mm? And hooked and now on display in a window box? (I'm joking about the window box display, I gotta - that booger hurt. I have it in a med container, though, just to revisit how one's body can just BITE you) Ahhh, That was a doozey.
The best thing that happened in my experience was IV. Saline IV. The more fluids via that manner, the more able I was to finally pass them both - even that last, nasty, bloody, horrid, mutant creature-looking thing, lurking in my kidney. The lowly 5mm nifty little toe-tapper - in spite of the Docs claiming it was large? HAH! Took me 4 days - 2 nights in the hospital, and lots and LOTS of pain meds and yep - saline. 4 days later? Back in the hospital just a bit longer.
When I was sent home initially from my regular MD - hospital, the vocal crying pain experience, prior to the BIG PART. She told me immediately what it was. Symptoms pretty clear on these nasty things. Pain above waist around kidney on that side initially - then, as it (they) move down your ureter to your bladder, wow. Okay then. That's the bad part, followed by my personal worst part - the groin pain. Wow. That was horrible. It lasted 2 days with the tiny 5mm. Not so with the big boy. That evil thing just hooked in there for a bit over 6 days, moving ever so slowly, and tried to make a new home. Until it went into my bladder. And then into my urethra. Oooo. Ow.
Let's just say there was a LOT of talk about surgery I didn't want, I could feel the pain move down slowly, was treated by truly kind physicians, had enough pain meds to handle it, and I managed to pass "El Stag" with the help and understanding of a very wonderful group of physicians and an extraordinary Urologist. I did insist on the IV saline at all times and drank as much water as I possibly could, too. Sitting on a potty in bed at most times when my buttissimo could endure it there was worth it. And those terrific blue thingys that absorb everything. Love 'em.
It was difficult as heck to pass, but surprise! Bed pan it was. Heard the evil thing plop. Just not able to walk to the bathroom that time.
And :::BOOM::: Pain was gone-Ish. I knew right away the horned creature thing was gone, did a little weak drug induced dance in my bed, said ow a few hundred times, showed off my prize, and most wonderfully, I knew all would be well. I didn't mind sitting in a warm bathtub to urinate for the next 2 weeks - I managed to avoid surgery.
I hope my experience can enlighten some - hope it truly helps all....
Be well.
Dix
A kidney stone (singular) can easily turn out to be STONES. Plural. Incredibly, mutant, toxic nuclear painful and just plain HURT, A LOT, multiple kidney stones.
Kidney stones can pass and poof - all gone. Then another - or a few others - can make their ugly journey into your ureter days or weeks later. This experience is not fun. I speak from experience. One little 5 mm just about made me grind the enamel off my teeth - but the lovely wretched staghorn model at a whopping 9+mm? And hooked and now on display in a window box? (I'm joking about the window box display, I gotta - that booger hurt. I have it in a med container, though, just to revisit how one's body can just BITE you) Ahhh, That was a doozey.
The best thing that happened in my experience was IV. Saline IV. The more fluids via that manner, the more able I was to finally pass them both - even that last, nasty, bloody, horrid, mutant creature-looking thing, lurking in my kidney. The lowly 5mm nifty little toe-tapper - in spite of the Docs claiming it was large? HAH! Took me 4 days - 2 nights in the hospital, and lots and LOTS of pain meds and yep - saline. 4 days later? Back in the hospital just a bit longer.
When I was sent home initially from my regular MD - hospital, the vocal crying pain experience, prior to the BIG PART. She told me immediately what it was. Symptoms pretty clear on these nasty things. Pain above waist around kidney on that side initially - then, as it (they) move down your ureter to your bladder, wow. Okay then. That's the bad part, followed by my personal worst part - the groin pain. Wow. That was horrible. It lasted 2 days with the tiny 5mm. Not so with the big boy. That evil thing just hooked in there for a bit over 6 days, moving ever so slowly, and tried to make a new home. Until it went into my bladder. And then into my urethra. Oooo. Ow.
Let's just say there was a LOT of talk about surgery I didn't want, I could feel the pain move down slowly, was treated by truly kind physicians, had enough pain meds to handle it, and I managed to pass "El Stag" with the help and understanding of a very wonderful group of physicians and an extraordinary Urologist. I did insist on the IV saline at all times and drank as much water as I possibly could, too. Sitting on a potty in bed at most times when my buttissimo could endure it there was worth it. And those terrific blue thingys that absorb everything. Love 'em.
It was difficult as heck to pass, but surprise! Bed pan it was. Heard the evil thing plop. Just not able to walk to the bathroom that time.
And :::BOOM::: Pain was gone-Ish. I knew right away the horned creature thing was gone, did a little weak drug induced dance in my bed, said ow a few hundred times, showed off my prize, and most wonderfully, I knew all would be well. I didn't mind sitting in a warm bathtub to urinate for the next 2 weeks - I managed to avoid surgery.
I hope my experience can enlighten some - hope it truly helps all....
Be well.
Dix
1 month back in college after coming from washroom i had very bad pain on right side of my kidney, next morning i did all my reports (x-ray and sonography) and found 6- 7mm stone in ureter i was on medication for 20-25 day ,during medication i had no pain i took a x-ray again it didn't show any stone but in sonography there was something but doctors are not sure whether stone is there or flushed out ..i have stopped all medicines and now pain has started abruptly.....plzzz i need help
I know what you mean! I went to the er doubled over in pain, nausea and vomiting. They did a cat scan and said there was a three mm stone in my left ureter. Sent me home with pain meds and anti nausea meds. 6 1/2 weeks later and three more painful episodes later I still have not passed it. I am in terrible discomfort. Most of the time I can't pee at all. I think it may now be in my urethra because I have had intense groin pain and the left flank pain has become more tolerable. I have been back to my primary 3 times, he had refused to send me to a urologist. Finally this week I was able to see one. They are now going to send me for another cat scan. This has taken over my life. I constantly feel like I have to pee. I have been drinking enough water to float a small ship to china. Any suggestions. The docs all look at me like I'm crazy. I don't think they believe that it hasn't passed. Believe me the pain is real!
it might have to be pushed back up inside the kidney and broke up with shock waves if its been like this for more than a few days then you need to go to your physician. drink plenty of fluids and take magnesium vitamins.
Notes on what to expect with Kidney stones, based off of my first passing of one:
For a long time, you may feel a tightness in your right side (flank area, bottom right of your stomach). It may be really subtle, just like a mild sensation of someone lightly pressing on that area.
The passing of a kidney stone goes through stages. The most painful of these stages is when the stone passes from your kidney into your ureter tube…this passage can feel like someone is repeatedly stabbing you in the side, or that a knife is slowly running through your intestines. This is when you will REALLY feel the pain in your back. Later stages bring pain more to the front of your body. This pain, for me, lasted about 30-45 minutes. Then, it just randomly vanished…part of the discomfort comes from your body having contractions trying to move the stone along. Another portion of the pain comes from the fact that these stones are very hard and can be jagged.
The doctors may try to prescribe you opiates…they are worthless…they will make you feel ****** up in a bad way. Don’t take them. Ibuprofen can help. So can weed.
Also, they will prescribe you Rapiflow. Who knows how much this helps. I will say that I took one rapiflow right before my stone finally passed. I also chugged water and Pink Lady Apple Kombucha.
Once the stone is in your ureter tube you will feel a different pain. The pain will be felt much more now on the front of your body, between your lower right stomach to your bladder area. The stone can stay here for months. In my case, it was in this stage for about 6-7 weeks.
When the stone moves into your bladder, you will notice that the majority of the discomfort is in your bladder (right above your **** in the front), especially towards the end of your pee stream. The pain will last throughout going pee, and a maybe for a few minutes after you urinate, but will then fade for the most part until you urinate again. My kidney stone was in the stage for about a week.
As the stone passes out of your bladder into your penis shaft, you will begin to feel pain in your actual penis. The stone, once in your penis, will hurt. You will have the same pain as the bladder stage, but now much more in your penis itself, and when the stone is JUST about to pass, the pain will remain for a long time in your penis. This is because the stone is stuck in your actual penis. If the stone rotates a bit at this stage, you can get a super quick, extremely sharp “SHOCK” type pain in your penis. It’s a nasty little pain.
At this stage, I chugged water, took 1 rapiflow pill, and chugged a Health-Ade Pink Lady Apple Kombucha. Then the stone passed. During this urination, I really tried to ‘push’ the stone out, and out it came. It felt just like you’d imagine a small rock would feel like coming out of your penis. It was like throwing up, out of my penis.
I scooped the stone out of the toilet. Nasty little bugger. I feel better, but there was still a little bit of burning after I finished peeing the first pee after passing the stone. I imagine I have some irritation in there due to the stones passing, but that this will finally heal up soon.
A few things: you will get blood in your urine from time to time throughout the passing of a stone, in all of its stages. This will usually look like a slightly orange, or slightly rosey colored urine.
Also, I believe that Kombucha helps clean out your kidneys. It was from drinking a large volume of Kombucha that the passing of this stone was initiated. And I chugged a Health-Ade Pink Lady Kombucha right before I passed the stone. It worked!
For a long time, you may feel a tightness in your right side (flank area, bottom right of your stomach). It may be really subtle, just like a mild sensation of someone lightly pressing on that area.
The passing of a kidney stone goes through stages. The most painful of these stages is when the stone passes from your kidney into your ureter tube…this passage can feel like someone is repeatedly stabbing you in the side, or that a knife is slowly running through your intestines. This is when you will REALLY feel the pain in your back. Later stages bring pain more to the front of your body. This pain, for me, lasted about 30-45 minutes. Then, it just randomly vanished…part of the discomfort comes from your body having contractions trying to move the stone along. Another portion of the pain comes from the fact that these stones are very hard and can be jagged.
The doctors may try to prescribe you opiates…they are worthless…they will make you feel ****** up in a bad way. Don’t take them. Ibuprofen can help. So can weed.
Also, they will prescribe you Rapiflow. Who knows how much this helps. I will say that I took one rapiflow right before my stone finally passed. I also chugged water and Pink Lady Apple Kombucha.
Once the stone is in your ureter tube you will feel a different pain. The pain will be felt much more now on the front of your body, between your lower right stomach to your bladder area. The stone can stay here for months. In my case, it was in this stage for about 6-7 weeks.
When the stone moves into your bladder, you will notice that the majority of the discomfort is in your bladder (right above your **** in the front), especially towards the end of your pee stream. The pain will last throughout going pee, and a maybe for a few minutes after you urinate, but will then fade for the most part until you urinate again. My kidney stone was in the stage for about a week.
As the stone passes out of your bladder into your penis shaft, you will begin to feel pain in your actual penis. The stone, once in your penis, will hurt. You will have the same pain as the bladder stage, but now much more in your penis itself, and when the stone is JUST about to pass, the pain will remain for a long time in your penis. This is because the stone is stuck in your actual penis. If the stone rotates a bit at this stage, you can get a super quick, extremely sharp “SHOCK” type pain in your penis. It’s a nasty little pain.
At this stage, I chugged water, took 1 rapiflow pill, and chugged a Health-Ade Pink Lady Apple Kombucha. Then the stone passed. During this urination, I really tried to ‘push’ the stone out, and out it came. It felt just like you’d imagine a small rock would feel like coming out of your penis. It was like throwing up, out of my penis.
I scooped the stone out of the toilet. Nasty little bugger. I feel better, but there was still a little bit of burning after I finished peeing the first pee after passing the stone. I imagine I have some irritation in there due to the stones passing, but that this will finally heal up soon.
A few things: you will get blood in your urine from time to time throughout the passing of a stone, in all of its stages. This will usually look like a slightly orange, or slightly rosey colored urine.
Also, I believe that Kombucha helps clean out your kidneys. It was from drinking a large volume of Kombucha that the passing of this stone was initiated. And I chugged a Health-Ade Pink Lady Kombucha right before I passed the stone. It worked!
Hi,
i underwent ACL surgery on 14 april. its been around 18 days since and i am suffering from ureter stone. i did CT Urogram and founded that 10x6 mm stone is stuck at 15 mm from VUJ junction.I am not sure what to do. Is it ok to have Ureteroscopy within 18-20 days of ACL surgery? Can ESWL be performed at this location of stone. i have been drinking lot of fluid and 1-2 mnths back my stone was at lower pole in right kidney. Please help
i underwent ACL surgery on 14 april. its been around 18 days since and i am suffering from ureter stone. i did CT Urogram and founded that 10x6 mm stone is stuck at 15 mm from VUJ junction.I am not sure what to do. Is it ok to have Ureteroscopy within 18-20 days of ACL surgery? Can ESWL be performed at this location of stone. i have been drinking lot of fluid and 1-2 mnths back my stone was at lower pole in right kidney. Please help
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