Kidney stone over a year ago and went to the ER but wished I would die all along the way. After many many drugs and some time I was as good as new though I did have a cystoscopy which didn't reveal anything obvious (I never actually saw passed stone so don't know where it went). After some months another x-ray revealed just tiny tiny fragments which they said they would check up on in 6 months which would have been this week. Over a week ago however pain became bad in left quadrant. Thought it might be those fragments and went to urologist--x-ray and cat scan and urinalysis showed nothing but I am still in pain. Now I do have diverticulosis and thought it might be that but the cat scan did not show anything. It did show a slightly enlarged uterus. Now the pain is over a week. Not much seems to help. Primary physician still thinks it might be kidney stone "dust" so I am having another scan with dye this week. Could this be? Why won't it get any better?
2015-05-12 11:41:03
Ironically earlier this year I had three stones of various sizes. I had a Cat Scan at a local ER that showed the stones all 3 under 5 mm in size. I then had another Cat Scan done at the VA within a month or so and supposedly it showed no stones at all. Keep in mind that off and on during this time period I was having severe kidney stone pain too and very bloody urine. A few weeks later I was back in the local ER due to severe pain and had another Cat Scan done that showed I had three stones again the same three stones I had more than a month previously and in the very first Cat Scan. I demanded a re-read of my Cat Scan at the local VA hospital and finally got one and the re-read showed the three stones were definitely there. Someone has misread that second Cat Scan and when I asked my civilian Urologist about it he told me that a misread is not that infrequent and that is why he reads and interpretes all his own Cat Scans and doesn't rely on someone else. My point to you is that apparently any Cat Scan can be misread regarding kidney stones and yes you having another Cat Scan with dye this week would be a good thing. Yes your pain could be from kidney stones and your pain probably won't be gone completely IF IT IS KIDNEY STONE (S) until they are dealt with and gone by whatever method.
2015-05-12 11:41:43
