Medical Plan

[drcpunk]

For a urine sample, I was given a container to fill and told that any excess was to go into a beaker beneath a funnel under a toilet seat. Naturally, my period has started, but it was very light during my appointment.

The urologist thinks the stone has passed. I'm not sure how he figures this, but he says he's not relying on the old CTscan or the ultrasound. He wants me at Long Island College Hospital tomorrow at 10 am for a CTscan first, to see if stone has passed, if there are other stones, and so on. This version of the CT scan is an X-ray with no requirement to drink barium.

If there are stones, they will be smashed, and Josh will escort me as an ambulatory anaesthesia patient.

No eating or drinking after midnight for me. I have a new urine strainer, cute and collapsable, with a place in the cover to store kidney stones. Cute, collapsable strainers may be de riguer, but bulkier larger ones are much, much neater, pace the doctor.

I also have a prescription for Flomax, which the doctor said is usually prescribed to men for prostate issues, but which may expand the tube if there is indeed a stone caught in it. The pharmacist warned me it may cause drowsiness.

The urologist doubts I have an infection, but we agree that I'm going to finish the antibiotics regardless.

And, of course, I am to keep drinking lots of water, until midnight.

Comments

[jl8e]

Good luck.

I hope everything goes smoothly.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just poured another liter of water into me.

[avram]

You might want to consider doing Kegel exercises. They strengthen the muscle that lets you hold it in when you can't get to a bathroom.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

I don't know what they are -- I mean, I know the concept, but not the exercises themselves. OTOH, I'm good at holding it in when I have to.

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

Well I'm glad that matters are progressing, if by irritating degrees (and sorry about the cute collapsible strainer :( although it is still neater than the narrow mouthed sample jars the get pregnant women - who can hardly reach that whole area anymore - to pee into).

a possible piece of fun you haven't met yet is the 24 hour urine test where you have to save everything in a gallon jug, sometimes with added acid - although if you do have to jump through that hoop at least you won't fall victim to the male temptation to pee directly into the acid in the jug which can cause splash burns apparently.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Yowch. Glad I'm missing that one, at least for the present.