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Going to put the details behind a cut, because they're of a medical nature. Also because it's a wall o' text.
I'm about 95% sure I passed a kidney stone last night, around 9:00pm EDT. Prior to that, for a span of around two weeks or so, I had what I thought was a urinary tract infection, with mild-to-moderate pain associated with that, i.e. burning when I urinated, etc.
I went to the doctor last Friday (May 20, with the appointment having been scheduled on Monday, May 16, with the 20th being the first available appointment time, and by that point the pain had already been ongoing for at least three or four days). The doctor seemed a bit mystified as to what was going on, as it is apparently "rare" for men to have UTI, unless, he claimed, it involved a prior prostate infection, which he said I wasn't showing any symptoms of having. In any case, he said he believed it was probably a UTI, based on everything I had told him regarding my description of symptoms and such, and prescribed me some antibiotics. He also said I should make a follow-up appointment to see him again in a week.
Fast forward to last night, two days later. Without going into great detail, the pain situation changed at some point between 6:00-7:00pm last night and got way worse for a span of around two hours (never bad enough that I thought I needed immediate medical aid or anything, like, say, going to urgent care or whatever, but it still sucked pretty bad), until 9:00pm, which is when, as I said, I'm pretty certain I passed a kidney stone (or passed something anyway, though I don't know what else it would have been, if not a kidney stone).
As of this morning, the pain is pretty much gone. So, I hope, that is the end of that. I've had kidney stones before, but for whatever reason, this thing here did not feel like those did. The prior instances of kidney stones were more up in the, you know, kidney area, and they sucked way worse than this did, though they were also way briefer in nature, lasting only a day or two at most before I passed them, instead of two-plus weeks like this thing. For one thing, the pain associated with this thing was way milder, comparative to the previous stones I had, even at the very end when it started hurting a lot more during that final two hour span. Like I said above, I (and my doctor) initially thought that this was probably a UTI (though neither of us were 100% certain that that is what it was). Or, I mean, it could have been a UTI and a kidney stone, since the latter can apparently cause the former, or so Google tells me.
As I mentioned, the doctor prescribed me five days worth of antibiotics, of which I've taken literally half as of now, and I will go ahead and finish off the rest of them over the next two and a half days, unless instructed otherwise by my doctor, even though I'm fairly sure I don't need them anymore and probably never did in the first place, if it was indeed a kidney stone as I think it was now. I just sent him a message via the Cone Health MyChart website this morning, informing him of all of this (in more explicit detail than I'm posting here). Haven't heard back yet, but it's only been about five minutes since I sent it, so that's understandable. In any case, unless the pain unexpectedly returns between now and the follow-up appointment I made for Friday (May 27), I'm probably going to cancel that one (for financial reasons, if nothing else). I'll give it until Thursday before I decide that, though, since I have up until the day before the appointment to cancel without penalty.
(Pre-post "EDIT")
So between me getting up to go make a cup of green tea and coming back to finish this post, the doctor's office called. I was told I did not have to continue taking the antibiotics. They still wanted me to come in on Friday for the follow up appointment ($$$ becau$e of cour$e they do $$$), or at least that they would "ask the doctor to see if he thought I needed to come in." I told them that I would keep it up in the air until Thursday, but that if the pain did not unexpectedly return between now and then, I would probably cancel the follow up.
In any case, this may (or may not) have been related to the previous stuff. (About which I will not be going into further detail, aside from saying that I did break my "never voluntarily visiting a doctor" thing I said in that post. In any case, as then, I'm expecting to be hit with yet another "discounted" [but still pretty exorbitant] bill within a week or so.)
Post started at 10:03am. Post actually posted at 11:50am.
(/Pre-post "EDIT")
I'm about 95% sure I passed a kidney stone last night, around 9:00pm EDT. Prior to that, for a span of around two weeks or so, I had what I thought was a urinary tract infection, with mild-to-moderate pain associated with that, i.e. burning when I urinated, etc.
I went to the doctor last Friday (May 20, with the appointment having been scheduled on Monday, May 16, with the 20th being the first available appointment time, and by that point the pain had already been ongoing for at least three or four days). The doctor seemed a bit mystified as to what was going on, as it is apparently "rare" for men to have UTI, unless, he claimed, it involved a prior prostate infection, which he said I wasn't showing any symptoms of having. In any case, he said he believed it was probably a UTI, based on everything I had told him regarding my description of symptoms and such, and prescribed me some antibiotics. He also said I should make a follow-up appointment to see him again in a week.
Fast forward to last night, two days later. Without going into great detail, the pain situation changed at some point between 6:00-7:00pm last night and got way worse for a span of around two hours (never bad enough that I thought I needed immediate medical aid or anything, like, say, going to urgent care or whatever, but it still sucked pretty bad), until 9:00pm, which is when, as I said, I'm pretty certain I passed a kidney stone (or passed something anyway, though I don't know what else it would have been, if not a kidney stone).
As of this morning, the pain is pretty much gone. So, I hope, that is the end of that. I've had kidney stones before, but for whatever reason, this thing here did not feel like those did. The prior instances of kidney stones were more up in the, you know, kidney area, and they sucked way worse than this did, though they were also way briefer in nature, lasting only a day or two at most before I passed them, instead of two-plus weeks like this thing. For one thing, the pain associated with this thing was way milder, comparative to the previous stones I had, even at the very end when it started hurting a lot more during that final two hour span. Like I said above, I (and my doctor) initially thought that this was probably a UTI (though neither of us were 100% certain that that is what it was). Or, I mean, it could have been a UTI and a kidney stone, since the latter can apparently cause the former, or so Google tells me.
As I mentioned, the doctor prescribed me five days worth of antibiotics, of which I've taken literally half as of now, and I will go ahead and finish off the rest of them over the next two and a half days, unless instructed otherwise by my doctor, even though I'm fairly sure I don't need them anymore and probably never did in the first place, if it was indeed a kidney stone as I think it was now. I just sent him a message via the Cone Health MyChart website this morning, informing him of all of this (in more explicit detail than I'm posting here). Haven't heard back yet, but it's only been about five minutes since I sent it, so that's understandable. In any case, unless the pain unexpectedly returns between now and the follow-up appointment I made for Friday (May 27), I'm probably going to cancel that one (for financial reasons, if nothing else). I'll give it until Thursday before I decide that, though, since I have up until the day before the appointment to cancel without penalty.
(Pre-post "EDIT")
So between me getting up to go make a cup of green tea and coming back to finish this post, the doctor's office called. I was told I did not have to continue taking the antibiotics. They still wanted me to come in on Friday for the follow up appointment ($$$ becau$e of cour$e they do $$$), or at least that they would "ask the doctor to see if he thought I needed to come in." I told them that I would keep it up in the air until Thursday, but that if the pain did not unexpectedly return between now and then, I would probably cancel the follow up.
In any case, this may (or may not) have been related to the previous stuff. (About which I will not be going into further detail, aside from saying that I did break my "never voluntarily visiting a doctor" thing I said in that post. In any case, as then, I'm expecting to be hit with yet another "discounted" [but still pretty exorbitant] bill within a week or so.)
Post started at 10:03am. Post actually posted at 11:50am.
(/Pre-post "EDIT")
