u/madison_spencer

I remembered my urologist told me years ago that my anatomy and a narrow opening was the reason for my complicated kidney stones. Now with electric health records I actually know what it's called. I had lithotripsy yesterday on stone #4? (starting to lose count) which was 15mm, the largest I've had was 17mm. One time I had to have repeat surgery to remove a stent that had migrated up into the ureter. For this reason my doctor now uses an extra long stent (extra not fun) but this time he avoided it altogether because he could see on the ultrasound that it had broken up finely. Procedure was 14 hours and debating on taking my first pain pill - what a difference without the fucking stent!!

What I have forever found odd is that I've never strained any stone debris. Have others with this genetic issue experienced the same thing? While I know it's the diverticulum causing the stones but it would be nice to make sure I'm not making it worse with my diet. And since I'm not straining anything, is there even a point to stent? My very first stone diagnosis I had 2 a 7mm and 9mm chilling together and I think he did lithotripsy 2 or 3 times because they weren't going away. A year later I went back because I was having some pain but they were gone. We are assuming they were blasted into dust and took forever because of my stupid anatomy.

After reading here on the handful of posts with others with this, I plan to ask my urologist why we aren't treating the thing that is causing the stones. I assumed there wasn't anything. I have made so many jokes about wanting a nephrectomy or giving my right kidney away to someone I don't like 🙃

I had a Aphonopelma seemanni escape and my cats unfortunately killed it. I picked up a Hapalopus sp. Colombia and I'm wondering if I need to do a thorough clean or if I can put the new occupant right in. The great escape was 100% my own fault. The enclosure was only occupied for about 6 months