[Suebacca]

I had the Ureteroscopic surgery done 2days ago on my left kidney. And I have a stent left in. I am very uncomfortable and cant seem to find a good position to sleep or just relax. I am mostly laying on my back. But was wondering if anyone had any suggestions of what has worked for you. Also did anyone elses Dr. say that having a stent wouldnt be uncomfortable? what a joke! Thanks~

[sarahgirl99]

Hi,
I just had a stent removed from my left kidney after having it in for three weeks. And, YES, it is very uncomfortable. My doctor prescribed a medication called PROSED that helped the spasms and painful irritations and also the bleeding that was caused by the stent. It helped me later to find out that the stent was eliminating all of the kidney stone pain as lots of stones were passing from two surgeries that I had had over the past three weeks. The stent was very uncomfortable, but the stone pain was by far worse. The good news is that I have had no residual pain since the stent was removed last week. Good luck!

[Cynthia333]

Hello,

I had my first kidney stone zapping this past Monday and I am going on day 5 having the stent in. YES it is quite uncomfortable and painful at most times. My only advice is that you keep taking whatever pain killer your Dr. has prescribed and TAKE IT EASY. I have been taking 10mg of Supedol every 4 hours or so and yes, even though constantly foggy, it helps alot and definately helps me sleep which is probably the best thing to do right now. If you can stay away from work for as long as possible that would be great too. I would say that the best position would be to lye on your back, try to avoid lying on the side you had work done on....it's annoying!! Good luck, I feel for ya ;-)

[dazza]

i totally understand your problem, after passing a really bad stone i had a stent inserted all i can say
is it was the most uncomfotable and annoying time of my life.11 weeks of misery untill it was removed.
i would rather have passed another stone!. surely there has to be something else less intrusive to your life.
all the best dazza

[sarahgirl99]

Stents are awful as far as the comfort goes, I have had numerous kidney stents. But ,as the doc says it is better than kidney failure. It was really awful with lots of bleeding etc.

On the bright side, I hope that everyone out there with kidney stones has had their calcium and parathyroid hormones checked. As it turned out after YEARS and hundreds of stones my docs finally discovered after going to numerous specialists that I had an extremely large parathyroid tumor in my neck that was elevating my calcium levels and causing all of these stones. I had the tumor removed (benign) a few months ago, and am doing so much better. Best of luck to all of you.