No More Kidney Stones.

I never ever want another kidney stone in this lifetime. I would rather have triplets! I would rather go thru anything that I can think of. It is like a nightmare ever time I think about it.

I went to the Urology Associates here a few weeks ago to get a KUB. That is an X Ray of my bladder and kidneys . I was holding my breath everything would be okay with that test. It had been a couple of months since the stent had been taken out. When I seen the doctor she said everything was great. I was so relieved.

When I had the first KUB they didn't tell me anything was wrong but you can look on "Follow My Health" online and see what all was said. Some of it I read didn't sound good but they didn't say a word to me about it. It said , " Small calcification is seen in lower pelvis. Represents phlebolith. Bowel gas pattern is diffusely prominent. Consider Ileus. Bones are ostepenic" None of that sounded good. I looked up some of that. It could mean blockage in the intestines.

They said nothing about any of this so I thought maybe they were just waiting until I got the stent out and got over all that. When I had the last X Ray and seen the urologist I ask her. She said that KUB did not show anything wrong at all. She said maybe because of the stent it showed those things but now it didn't show anything wrong. They had said I might have some kidney damage too since the marble size kidney stone was pressed against my kidney. But it said Stage 3 which is moderate reduction of GFK.

My stone was between 5 to 9 mm. That one Urologist said it was golfball size. I think that was kind of an exaggeration. It was marble I heard. It had been there for a long time.

I drink ice water with slices of lemon every day. They say that is the best thing to prevent kidney stones. If you have never had one you don't know what you are missing. You don't want to find out.
The stent is worse than the stone. And when they get ready to take it out they just start pulling through your bladder.That is certainly not fun but at the time you just want to get it out of there. All 18 inches of it.

I am just glad it is all over and hope it never happens again. And please people drink lots of water where yall don't get one!