In June 2023, 27-year-old Ms. Zheng was resting at home after dinner when she suddenly felt a low back pain that lasted for a long time and spread from her waist to her lower abdomen. Ms. Zheng endured the pain and went to the hospital emergency room, and she vomited several times on the way. After arriving at the hospital, after examination, Ms. Zheng learned that it was an acute pain attack caused by a kidney stone falling into the upper part of the right ureter.
The doctor gave Ms. Zheng painkiller injections to relieve the pain, and asked Ms. Zheng to do color ultrasound. The ultrasound results showed that Ms. Zheng's kidney stone was 14mm in size and was blocked in the upper ureter. The doctor's advice is to either have surgery or do extracorporeal lithotripsy, but lithotripsy may not be successful because the stone is too hard.
Ms. Zheng didn't choose any of them, so she changed to a hospital the next day, and the doctor said that it was better to do extracorporeal lithotripsy for ureteral stones in the upper segment, but Ms. Zheng had a urinary tract infection, so she should first reduce inflammation and wait for the urinary tract infection to heal before doing extracorporeal lithotripsy. Ms. Zheng agreed, and after the treatment of urinary tract infection, Ms. Zheng had a follow-up examination a week later, and found that the kidney stone had actually returned to the kidney and was no longer in the upper ureter.
The doctor said that the stone is in the kidney, and it is not easy to do lithotripsy outside the body, and it will damage the kidney if it is forced, so it is better to have surgery. Ms. Zheng was quite depressed but had no choice but to ask the doctor to put her on a double J tube first and prepare for surgery.
In August, a month later, Ms. Zheng had a follow-up examination and found that the stone had fallen into the ureter again, and she did not need surgery. The doctor took a double J tube for Ms. Zheng and did two extracorporeal lithotripsy tripsy tubes. After the lithotripsy, Ms. Zheng discharged a small kidney stone, and there was no movement, and the remaining stones still did not fall, and Ms. Zheng also had a urinary tract infection.
The symptoms of painful urination, frequent urination, and incomplete urination made Ms. Zheng very distressed, and she had no choice but to go to the hospital for a reexamination, and the results of the reexamination showed that some of Ms. Zheng's broken stones were still in the kidneys. After tossing for a long time, she returned to the original point, Ms. Zheng couldn't cry or laugh, but fortunately, the stone was not as big as it used to be, and it was still possible to discharge it by itself.
Ms. Zheng started to skip rope and drank two liters of water every day, but the effect of stone discharge was not good, and it was never discharged. It wasn't until October 2023 that Ms. Zheng replaced the skipping rope with a daily jump that miracles began to appear, and the stones came out one after another, and Ms. Zheng discharged 7 small kidney stones. After the last kidney stone was removed, Ms. Zheng felt that the entire urethra was unobstructed and she was no longer uncomfortable.
After the kidney stones were discharged, Ms. Zheng's biggest feeling was that the kidney stones were really difficult to pass. If the stone is not too big to rely on medicine, drinking water, and exercise to pass the stone, there is still hope, if the stone is too large, then extracorporeal lithotripsy is the best choice, and the operation can only be ranked last, she is glad that she did not have surgery.