MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Things went well. After prep it took 5 minutes. Was awake and went home after. Kidney is doing the happy dance😎 One more to go. On Monday I go in to get this dam stent removed.

El- the bag is so much better then the pain

Barbe- the radiologist did the tube and doesn't do stents. I was bummed out. So back I go on Monday and under general again😖. Just pull it out quick and let me go home! After seeing what was coming out of my kidney we pretty much can assume the stent is clogged. Chunks of clots and tissue that could never fit thru it. The bag was full in ten minutes. Looked like lumpy mud. Getting clearer now but still has blood and probably will until the stent comes out. My friend brought us over supper. I was actually hungry and it was awesome

So glad youre already feeling better!! Was part of the crud infection? You'd think they'd coordinate the procedures!!

Loral- the stent is plastic. They should have known it was not going to work because the problem at been ongoing for months and the urine would not be clear. It was like mud with chucks of tissue and clots.Stent worked for one day. I am sure it is right clogged.

I can't see how a tube/drain will drain better than a stent which is wider...?

Barbe- the drain tube is so much larger then the stent. It is like the drain tubes after a mastectomy . The stent is no bigger then a coffee stirrer. Just so nice not to be in pain

Dianarose - What an ordeal! Sending healing vibes your way.

Barbe- my back is ok. The amount of blood in my urine is scary though. Maybe once the stent is out it will clear up. On a positive note I don't have to get up in the night to pee because half is in the bag lol. Constipation is my big problem right now. Have tried everything and nothing is working. I think castor oil is next 😖

Dianarose, so sorry to her of your difficulties. And we all thought cancer was the worst thing we could deal with. Little reminders that there are a host of issues that people are dealing with. No one escapes the ravages of people human I guess. Hope you recover quickly and are free of pain soon.

Barbe-I just took 2👍. Hope it works. I am a coffee drinker but it has never effected me that way. Seems light one problem leads to another. My daughter said I should tell them I don't want to be completely out to remove the stent and that the twilight stuff should be enough. Having IV's put in every few days is getting old too. Oncologist says he doesn't want to do chemotherapy now and is suggesting removing the lymph nodes or radiation. Just wondering how they can map me for radiation when they can only be seen on the ct scan

loral- I don't feel so alone anymore lol

Elimar...No kidding, too many of us have pooper problems...

I have the opposite problem.

I have delicate bowels, or as Eddie Huang's father (Louis Huang) says on the TV comedy, "Fresh Off the Boat," "[She] has gentle bowels." I nearly fell over when I heard that. It means the same thing: prone to major diarrhea. Even when I was on Norco, I still went 2 or 3X a day. Now that I'm off Norco and on Xeloda, it's bad news - up to 6X per day, and that's with Imodium. Like I said in another post on another thread, when it gets really bad, I have to wear Depends because I can't always hobble to the loo in time with my back being the way it is.

Fun times.

Dianarose, they map for radiation with a CT machine. Twilight drugs require an IV as well, so that's not going to make a difference for you.

Where are the lymph nodes? Are we still talking kidney here or somewhere else? I might have forgotten your "story".....

Barbe- one is on the outside of the right ureter and crushing it and there are more in different areas of the abdomen. General makes me wake up dizzy with double vision

Local- looks yummy