About a month ago I was experiencing some issues with my bladder. I saw my GP, who I find difficult to visit at the best of times, and sure enough he sent me off for an ultrasound of my kidneys. What can go wrong here, I thought? Just another routine precautionary test I had to take I’m guessing was to safeguard the doctors arse incase there was something abnormal. So off I went for my death scan. An ultrasound is nothing new to me, I used to have regular echocardiograms which is the same deal, just on different parts of the body. This whole ordeal took five minutes. The results were to be sent off to my doctor.
So I reluctantly go and see my doc not expecting anything out of the ordinary. He wasn’t his usual happy self to see me. He puled out my test results and tells me they found something. Please don’t be cancer I though but the findings in my eyes were close to it… Kidney stones! Oh joy! I was given some medication, told to drink plenty of fluids and wait for them to pass. He told me, just like everyone else I have spoken to about it, that this can be excruciatingly painful. More so than giving birth. I am yet to go through labor but I can only imagine what this must be like for the soon to be mother. He told me I can get some pain medication, the good stuff I hope, but he also warned me not to go down to the Frankston ER as they will presume I’m a drug addict chasing down a high on pain medication and leave me to suffer in major pain without receiving relief. He told me to see him at the medical clinic. This doesn’t help much as there are only certain times of the day or month that I can get ahold of the doctor. He’s a busy man. How does this even work? I’m going to need the medication pretty quick I’m imagining. This is concerning and stresses me out even further.
So now all I can do is wait for the pain to kick in. I have a high pain tolerance but I’m really not sure what to expect or how to react. Hopefully they’re small stones and pass without a great deal of pain and discomfort but what if this all of a sudden comes on and I’m left in the fetal position on the floor wishing I was dead!? I feel like a ticking time bomb and the solution the doctor gives me is to drink water!! If I make it through I will post a blog on how the kidney stone situation ends up. Wish me luck!