On an ordinary early summer night, I was woken up by urine and opened my phone to see the time, 2:15 a.m. Thinking back for a while, I basically didn't drink much water before going to bed, and this point was woken up by urine, which was a bit puzzling.
When squatting on the toilet, there was nothing unusual about the first half. Near the end, I suddenly felt something in my body fall, and the urine suddenly broke. After a little more effort, there was still no urine coming out. This must be an anomaly, because usually the finishing work always ends in a few bits.
Since it was three o'clock in the middle of the night, I slept in a confused way, and I didn't have time to think about it too much, so I moved to bed and continued to sleep. There are not too many abnormalities, but the position of the right waist, or rather the right kidney, is slightly uncomfortable.
I thought it was "uterine prolapse"
At 5:30, I got up on time to study, and my heart was full of the joy of "today I have improved a little more". After learning to get up, I began to feel a little uncomfortable. The discomfort in the right lower back that flashed in the middle of the night turned into a slight pain, and the entire lower abdomen began to faintly ache.
Remembering the feeling of something falling down at night, I hurried to the Internet to check the information. Because I had uterine fibroids before I gave birth, and the pain in my lower abdomen was somewhat similar to that of my menstrual holiday, my attention was always on gynecological diseases.
I found a "uterine prolapse" that said it would fall into the vagina when it was severe, and older women would even fall out of the vaginal opening due to laxity and needed to be stuffed back.
Remembering the feeling of something falling down at night, I hurried to the Internet to check the information. 丨Pixabay
I am a middle-aged woman who has just turned 40 years old, strong and energetic, it will not be so miserable, right? However, in the spirit of science, I carefully washed my hands and quietly checked them in the bathroom. The conclusion is very normal, at least not in any way I can see. I was afraid I had missed something, so I checked it again, and it was still ok.
After enduring the discomfort, I finished breakfast and soon had the feeling of having to defecate. After excretion, the whole person is particularly relaxed, the waist is no longer painful, and the lower abdomen is no longer painful. Could it be because it's blocked by?
Feeling like I'm resurrected, I happily went to wash the dishes and wash my clothes. As it turned out, I was still too naïve. After more than an hour of standing and labor, the waist pain and lower abdomen pain once again came to life.
Once again, I was half lying on the couch. In the living room of about 30 degrees, I filled a hot water bottle with boiling water. Experience has taught me that hot compresses can relieve pain, and I do it when I am uncomfortable during menstruation. However, the hot water bottle was placed on the lower abdomen for half a day, and the pain was not relieved in the slightest. Putting the waist down doesn't do anything. The pain in both areas is still intensifying.
I decided to climb into bed and rest for a while. However, more intense pain awaited me.
Got in an ambulance
At that time at home, I was with my daughter, who was less than 6 years old. The pain became more intense, especially in the right lower back. A burst of pain struck violently, like a winter wind, sweeping my whole body, and my waist felt like it was about to break.
Wait, why does this feel a little familiar? When I gave birth to a baby and drove to almost 8 fingers, this was the feeling!
I finally couldn't help but cry out in pain. Hearing my crying, the child ran into the bedroom, jumped on the bed and kept asking, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" What's uncomfortable? I'll knead you..."
To change the usual time, I must have to sigh, look, my sweet little cotton jacket is good, right? But I was in so much pain that I grabbed the sheets with both hands and rolled them over with groans. Feeling that the child's constant inquiry made my pain worse, I told her several times in a weak voice not to talk to me, but she kept talking.
My husband just returned to his hometown early that morning, so I had to call my father and ask him to go home as soon as possible to watch the baby, and he called an ambulance again.
I called an ambulance in pain. 丨 Figureworm creative
My dad was obviously more anxious than I was, and kept lying on the balcony to see if the car was coming. My pain slowly eased, I could move from the bedroom to the living room, I slowly packed up my health insurance card, bank card, water and other things I needed to bring into my bag, and prepared to leave as soon as the car arrived.
About half an hour later, the ambulance arrived at the bottom of my building. Someone called me and I said I could go downstairs by myself, so I also refused my dad's request to accompany me to the hospital. The epidemic has not completely subsided, this old man and child, don't go to the hospital to risk it.
Take the elevator downstairs, where the stretcher is already waiting. I was relieved for the most part, a little embarrassed to sit on a stretcher, but two staff members insisted that I lie down. I lay down, still in my pink backpack, and watched the sky streak through an angle I had never seen before until I was pushed into the ambulance.
So for the first time in my life, I took an ambulance.
There should not be many people like me who can get out of the ambulance on their own
The ambulance drove all the way to the hospital. The doctor in the car inquired about my situation, gave me ECG monitoring, measured my blood pressure, measured my body temperature, and told me that it might be urinary tract stones, but the specific situation still had to go to the hospital for a series of examinations to determine.
Urinary tract stones? Ah, yes, it feels like something falls down and the urine is interrupted, it's very similar.
The doctor also said that the symptoms may be relieved now because the stones have fallen, but it is best to call a family member or friend to accompany you for a while, so as not to go to the hospital to register, pay fees, and do various inconveniences.
I braced myself and said, it's okay, I can do it myself.
When I got to the hospital, I got out of the car myself. The staff at the emergency door watched me slowly walk towards the emergency hall with some surprise, and there should not be many people like me who can call an ambulance and walk down on their own.
I was assigned to the Emergency Department of Surgery. The emergency doctor's judgment was also that the stone was also stone, and now the relief is due to the stone falling down, and it is recommended that I do CT to confirm the diagnosis.
The emergency doctor's judgment is also that the stone is also relieved, and now the relief is due to the stone falling down. 丨Pixabay
I said, isn't it the B super that can be seen? The doctor patiently explained that if no stones are found, other causes must be checked, and the CT is clear at a glance, and the situation of multiple organs can be seen clearly, without tossing. The doctor also prescribed a blood test to test the urine. After I paid the fee, I shuttled through and through to do the examination and send samples, the pain has basically disappeared, except for people who are a little weak, I feel that there is nothing to do.
The doctor looked at the CT film on the computer and said that he did not see any obvious stones for the time being, and he waited for two hours to report it to see what the problem was. "However, your urine test results are very high red blood cells and white blood cells, or more supportive of urinary problems," the doctor continued, "I will prescribe you some anti-inflammatory and painkillers, you go back and remember to hang up the urology clinic number, they see this more professional." ”
I sat in a chair in the emergency hallway waiting for the results of various reports, and after a toss, it was long past lunchtime. I didn't plan to eat because I didn't feel hungry and didn't bother to go out to buy something.
Because of low blood sugar, I almost fainted in the emergency room
I sat in a chair in the emergency room and played with my phone. Suddenly, a feeling of discomfort came at me. The whole body began to become weak, the stomach and intestines churned a little, and the breathing began to become rapid. I know this feeling is a precursor to fainting.
It must be because I didn't eat lunch plus all kinds of tosses and low blood sugar. No, I couldn't just let myself faint in the hallway of the emergency room. While my brain was still a little clear, I stood up, walked slowly into the surgical room where I had been treated, and said weakly to the doctor, "Doctor, I can't do it, I think I'm going to faint." ”
Maybe I was scared by the look that I would fall down at any time, and he quickly let me lie down on the examination bed and asked several times in a row: "What's wrong with you?" What the hell is wrong with you? The doctor saw that I was a little breathless, quickly touched my carotid artery, and then said to me, "You lie down, don't move." After saying that, he rushed out.
After a while the doctor came back and asked me, "How are you feeling now?" Hold your breath? I said, "Better, don't hold your breath." Probably not eating at noon, blood sugar is a little low. ”
When the doctor heard me say that my blood sugar was low, I was a little relieved: "Knowing that my blood sugar is low, I should have something to eat in my bag when I go out." I'm looking for what I'm eating here. "I was lucky enough to find two chocolate pie from the cupboard and carefully confirm the date before giving it to me to make sure it hadn't expired.
After eating the chocolate pie given by the doctor, I felt much better. 丨 Figureworm creative
After eating a chocolate pie, I felt much better. At this time, suddenly a doctor came in from the door, holding an electronic blood pressure device in his hand, and asked directly: "What about people?" Where are the uncomfortable people? Then he looked at me and said, "Well, isn't that the stone?" The emergency doctor replied, "Yes, that's the stone." ”
Well, I'm that "stone".
After measuring the blood pressure, the doctor later said: "Nothing, the blood pressure is normal." ”
At this time, my CT report also came out. The doctor said to me as he watched, "Is it a pain in the right back?" I saw that they reported a suspected small stone at the end of the ureter, and you still have to see a urology clinic. Oh, you actually have appendix fecal stones? Oops, then if you have pain in your right lower abdomen in the future, you have to come to the hospital in time, it may be appendicitis. ”
Well, my ureteral stone thing has not been solved, and there are stones in the appendix, or feces have changed! I really realized what is called "the roof leaks in the overnight rain", and I really want to cry without tears.
I am deeply grateful to this doctor and have thanked him many times. After taking the medicine, I felt that there was basically nothing wrong, so I went straight home.
I thought it was over, but I didn't expect a small oversight after I went home, and I once again felt what it was like to be in pain.
Forget that you still have a urinary tract infection
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when I got home. Turning to the anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers prescribed by the doctor in the bag, I thought that there was no need to use painkillers when it was no longer painful. As for anti-inflammatory drugs, I am afraid that taking medicine on an empty stomach will irritate the stomach and intestines, so I plan to take it after dinner.
After a morning of tossing, I was also a little tired, and after lying down for a while, I began to feel peeing. At first, I felt very good, anyway, the doctor said to drink more water and urinate more, want to urinate to prove that I drank enough water, which is conducive to the relief of the disease. There is no problem with urinating, the amount is not small, and the excretion process is also very smooth. After peeing satisfactorily, he returned to bed and continued to close his eyes and recuperate.
After about half an hour, the urge to urinate struck again. I continued to be complacent about drinking enough water for myself, and then I happily ran to the bathroom and put the water down.
However, as I urinated more and more and the intervals got shorter and shorter, I felt something was wrong. Although I did drink a lot of water, the normal should not be this frequency, and every time I went to the back, I was in a hurry, and I couldn't urinate much on the toilet.
I had the legendary urinary frequency and urgency!
The bladder had the feeling of exploding, as if the urine that had been stored in it for centuries was in desperate need of a flush, but the floodgates could not be opened at this time. However, it didn't explode, it just drummed and drummed hard, and then there were thousands of small needles poking and poking at it, and the stinging pain that had nowhere to hide was simply unbearable.
I used to hear people say that it was very painful to want to pee, but I didn't know what kind of uncomfortable method it was, and even once thought that others were too squeamish and pretentious to portray it so unbearable. Now I know that blind speculation about others will be punished!
I had the legendary urinary frequency and urgency! 丨 Figureworm creative
When I squatted on the toilet again in pain, trying to excrete some more urine, I found that red marks appeared on the wiped paper. I was sure and definitely not coming to menstruation, and a thought flashed in my mind: lying in the grooves, peeing blood!
No more hesitation.
I struggled to find the anti-inflammatory, swallowed a tablet quickly, and then limped out of the building door to get into the taxi and let the driver quickly pull me to the nearest hospital emergency room.
I struggled to find the emergency surgery room in a very strange walking position, but found that there was no one inside. I looked at the door for half a day, and I didn't see anyone coming. At this time, it may be that the anti-inflammatory drugs I took before going out began to work, and my tingling feeling began to lessen and was less uncomfortable.
I thought about it for a moment and decided to go home. Because a friend who studied medicine told me that going to the hospital for infusion is also to give anti-inflammatory drugs, which is only faster than oral drugs.
I went home and peed twice. Although they are all scary hematuria, they can already urinate relatively freely, but there will still be a slight tingling sensation after urinating, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the previous discomfort.
For the next few days, I insisted on taking anti-inflammatory drugs, drinking more water, and when I had another urine test three days later, the results were completely normal.
To this day, whenever I finish peeing freely, my heart is filled with gratitude, and then I silently drink a glass of water. Only after blocking and hurting can you experience how cool it is to be able to urinate freely.
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Liu Jiayi | Resident Physician of The Department of Urology, First Central Hospital Affiliated to Nankai University, Weibo @ Dr. Qi, Department of Urology
The above story is a more typical manifestation of urinary tract stones combined with urinary tract infections.
Let's first talk about stones, urinary tract stones are a very high incidence of the disease, Chinese group of people in a lifetime of urinary stones the probability of more than 10%, some southern areas even up to 20%.
The typical manifestation of urinary tract stones is "fidgeting, rolling on the ground" kidney colic, which many friends think is almost comparable to giving birth to a child. Other manifestations include bloating, nausea, vomiting, hematuria, and high fever.
But as urological surgeons, we are not afraid of this kind of painful stone, because this usually means that the stone has not completely blocked the urinary pathway, which means that after the stone is disposed of, it usually does not affect the function of the kidneys. On the contrary, we often encounter some friends in the clinic who have just found out the stones, but find that the volume of the stones has been very large, and the time stuck in the ureter is also very long, and the kidneys on the top have long been hydrostatic and have lost their function, and there is no value to save, so they can only surgically remove the non-functional kidney on this side.
Therefore, although it is very impersonal to say so, urological surgeons prefer that urinary tract stones make patients hurt, after all, for many people, "pain" is the first motivation for medical treatment.
In addition to renal colic, stones often have problems with urinary tract infections. "Running water does not rot, the household center does not beetle", once the stone causes obstruction of the urinary tract, the outflow of urine is blocked, and it is easy to breed bacteria and cause urinary tract infection. And urinary tract infections often in turn accelerate the formation of stones. You see, stones and infections are such "wretched".
So usually, before and after treating stones, the first thing a urologist has to do is to control the urinary tract infection first through medication, indwelling ureteral stents, pyelectomy and other methods.
Although the author experienced the torture of renal colic, he was actually luckier, the stones were relatively small, and he excreted himself. In fact, stones with a diameter of less than 6 mm can generally be discharged on their own, and larger stones can only be solved by ureteroscopy and percutaneous nephrooscopy.
It should also be reminded that it is not all right after the operation, and the recurrence rate of urinary tract stones is particularly high. In every 10 stone patients, 2 people will relapse within 5 years, so on the one hand, stone patients must drink more water and exercise to promote urination, on the other hand, they must remember the follow-up time ordered by the doctor and review it on time. After all, the sooner a stone is found, the more urologists can deal with it and the less traumatic it will be!
The last broken thoughts: drink more water, hold less urine, and usually run and jump in order to "stone no longer come"!
Sharing personal experience does not constitute a diagnosis and treatment recommendation, can not replace the doctor's individual judgment of a specific patient, if you need to go to a regular hospital.
Author: Rododo
Edit: Li Xiaoqiu