[tabula99]

Hello all,

I'm a 23 year old male dealing with kidney stones Like many on this forum I'm frustrated and feeling a little bit helpless.

I was training for a marathon when the week before the race I was struck with that knife feeling in my left flank, vomiting and writhing in pain I was rushed to the ER. A CT scan found a 5 mm stone stuck in the ureter. They gave me Vicodin and Flomax (after pumping me full of morphine) (to try to ease the stone along) and told me to go see a urology specialist.

I had uncontrolled vomiting the next two days (probably from the narcotics) and missed work. When I finally got an appointment with the urologist he immediately scheduled me for lithotripsy. The surgery was found to be a success, immediately I passed a few shards and I left feeling good.

However, I woke up the next morning vomiting uncontrollably and screaming in pain, not knowing what else to do my girlfriend took me back to the ER, where they gave me anti-nausea pills and of course, more pain meds. I did end up passing one more shard of stone, but that's it.

I still have pain and went back to the urologist Since then I've been put on the heaviest Rx dose of Potassium Citrate, 1040 mg which I take three times a day, I also take Magnesium Citrate 300 mg once a day and try to do the lemon juice in water thing while also taking Flomax (I'm pretty much a pharmacy.)

I now have pain in both sides, I've been sent for all types of tests and have been all over the spectrum.

KUB X-Ray showed no stones on either side. Urologist said this was good.
Renal Sonogram showed three stones, two on left one on right, urologist grimly told me I was screwed.
He then sent me for this Intra-Veneous Polygram (fluid test) to see what sort of procedure I should have, this test showed no stones and perfect kidney function. Urologist was jubilant and said we didn't need to do anytihng.
Now, I just took another CT Scan (the final arbiter) because I'm still in pain and I know something is there, I'm grimly awaiting these results. It's really frustrating to be emptying my savings on these tests which show nothing and the conflicting results have me worried. I also just got Epididymitis (NOT FUN) and am getting antibiotics to help that, so...basically my whole urologic department has shut down.

Like many on here in the other posts, this problem has sort of taken over my life (the dark cloud over you thing right?) and I've been studying like a fiend to try and figure this out. It's honestly maddening. The worst thing is that every doctor, nurse, and other specialist I've seen has commented on how young I am, it makes me feel almost as if I've done something wrong. I keep myself in good shape and while I don't eat as well as I probably should I don't think that makes me much different than any other 23 year old.

No history of stones in my family either, I'm the first one. I like my urologist ok, he seems like a nice guy, but I'm starting to have doubts.

Thanks for listening guys. Good luck to everyone. Any advice please reply, I'll take what I can get!