lolaraincoat | (Reply)

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Well, in my case I had what my surgeon cheerfully referred to as "monster" fibroids, which were impinging on my urinary tract, leading to a series of kidney infections and kidney stones which wouldn't pass - I was up to three or four bouts of kidney stone pain a week in the weeks before surgery - and also just kidneys that were swollen to twice their normal size and a bladder that was unable to hold more than a half-cup of pee at a time, and some bladder infection issues as well. So, as various doctors kept telling me, my kidney function was just fine, it was just that nothing was moving out of my kidneys once they had done their functioning. It really, really sucked. And the fibroids were too large and too unfortunately positioned to be able to just do a straightforward fibroid surgery safely; they had to do a hysterectomy.

So now I still have one kidney stone that I can feel, which will probably require lithotripsy or even surgery at some point in the coming months. But my kidneys are draining again, now that all the fibroids are out of the way, and the kidney stone isn't causing me serious pain, or any pain at all most of the time, and oh, wow, I feel so much better.