Hello, i'm shanon. I'm 18, female,
and i've had 3 kidney stones.
Perhaps I should give you more of my
history...
A year ago, I had my first kidney stone
(talk about excruciating pain. It
certainly has redefined pain for me).
I went to the e.R. , because I had
no idea what this horrible pain was.
Anyways, it passed all on it's own.
The doctors said I had 2 more stones in
one of my kidneys, and that they'd
probably pass on their own too. 2
months ago I had the excruciating pain
again, went to the e.R. Etc...(mainly
because I needed something for the pain)
and the stone had blocked the urine flow
from the kidney. The kidney was
swollen. They were going to do
surgery to remove it, but it passed on
it's own right after they told me, lol.
The docs said that the one left in my
kidney was almost a 6 mm, but they're hard
to measure because they're jagged.
If it was a 6, it probably couldn't pass
on it's own. A couple weeks later
they did an x-ray and you could barely
even see it. I think it shrunk,
because it was a 3 or 4 (same as my 2
previous stones). About a month
ago, it passed all on it's own with almost
no pain whatsoever (that's weird, I
know... Maybe i've built up a
tolerance for the pain, ha). I even
managed to save this little stone.
Anyways, it seems I am stone free right
now.
This morning though, lying in bed before I
got up, I felt this weird "pressure"
across my lower back... Partly in
my waist area and partly up into my rib
area. Like in my kidney area.
It woke me up. It wasn't pain,
didn't hurt, just felt "full". And
if I sniffed ( I have allergies), it felt
like it would burst. When I stood
up, it kind of was relieved a little, and
when I urinated, the
pressure/fullness/tightness/almost
acheness went away completely. It
was a good amount of urine too, not alot,
but a little more than normal. It's
gonna sound weird, but it felt like I
could feel the urine in my kidneys and
ureters, and when I stood up it went to my
bladder (the slight relief feeling) and
when I urinated it was gone.
Complete relief. I know that's
probably not possible, but that's what it
felt like. Completely.
I've looked around on the internet
(everything from kidney infection to
disease to cancer) but haven't found
anything. I have no symptoms,
except whatever I felt this morning.
But that doesn't seem to fit anywhere.
I drink a lot of water usually (alot more
these past 2 months) so much that my urine
is a really light color. No soda or
tea, but I do love coffee. My urine
doesn't have blood in it, isn't a weird
color, doesn't smell (like with an
infection), I have no pain or discomfort
when I urinate or any other time. I
urinate a good amount every day (like
maybe 6 or 7 times, roughly, from 7 am
till 12 pm) I have a lot of energy, as
usual. Basically, I feel fine.
Good. Great. Normal.
These past 2 days I have been drinking
quite a bit of coffee though. I had
cut back to like half a cup a day since
these last 2 bats with the stones.
But i've been drinking a cup or 2 a day
now, kinda late at night too.
I don't know, maybe my kidney(s) and
ureters are still sensative from the
stones, and the caffeine irritated them or
over worked them. Maybe it's
nothing. I am at a loss.
Do any of you have any ideas or
suggestions? Does this sound like
anything to you?????
