ever since friday night, ive been getting sharp pains on the sides of my lower back and my stomach felt like it was punched, the area where my hips are(ish) are in pain i've had nausea friday, saturday, some on sunday, some what a lot on monday, and a lot yesturday. i've been getting terrible headaches, my body aches, all i want to do is sleep all the time, and its uncomfortable to lay down. i gotta pee a lot, and when i go, i feel like i gotta go again. i asked my mom what a kidney stone feels like and she says painful, and i told her well ive have pain and nauseous and she just says "drink more water" yeah? duh! its hard when you feel you gotta puke and dont want to eat. this is making me feel like i dont want to be around anyone, why?..it doesnt burn to go to the bathroom but it feels like something. my mom wont take me to the doctor, she doesnt want to pay a bill, she has too many doctor/hospital bills to pay. she cant do this one for me?? ugh i have no insurance, and they wont even look for one cause i MIGHT be getting SSI and you automatically get medicadE? i cant wait forever, i'll probably die from infection....ugh! help??!

Anytime you go to a specialist, ie: obgyn, the cost of an office visit will be more. When I do not have a "female problem" I go to a general Dr. (office visit is $65). I have not had insurance in several years and always pay cash.

I am glad you did go see someone to get the problem taken care of. I hope you feel better very soon.

my mom thought that was the best place to go so her fault lol

and thanks, i hope to be feeling better before i have to go back to school

Hi Erin,

Im glad you finally went to see someone and got meds to help. I noticed someone saying you are too young for kidney stones, not true. 20 or 40 it doesnt matter you can get them.

Christmas day I woke up to pain and nasuea. Peeing a little here and there and always feeling like I had to go. I figured at 41,,could be a UTI so I started drinking Water ,cranberry juice and eating small meals. I went to a friends for Christmas dinner and was miserable, the pain wasnt as severe but I was still hitting the bathroom every 20 minutes or so and feeling miserable in between visits. I went to bed that night with little pain BUT was wide awake at 5am with sharp pains in my lower right , ovaries? NOT, within 20 minutes I was an absolute mess and begging my husband to do something, I was on the floor on my belly trying to get the pain to go away. My husband took me to the ER,,scarey thing is the pain was so bad I dont remember the ride. After 3 pain shots into an IV and an abdominal CT scan it was determined to be a kidney stone. OUCH! I was sent home 5 hours later on percocet, flomax and filtering everything coming out. It came, phew, what a relief. I went to a uroligist 3 days later and when he found out about my band he immediately told me to DRINK water more often! He said that a problem with some people who get the band is that they tend to feel full longer and dont drink as much as they should. He said that will lead to kidney stones in some people, no matter what their age. I drink alot more now than I did before that visit. Im glad your feeling better.:thumbup: My stone was made up of Protein and 2 MM.

Hi Erin,

Im glad you finally went to see someone and got meds to help. I noticed someone saying you are too young for kidney stones, not true. 20 or 40 it doesnt matter you can get them.

Christmas day I woke up to pain and nasuea. Peeing a little here and there and always feeling like I had to go. I figured at 41,,could be a UTI so I started drinking Water ,cranberry juice and eating small meals. I went to a friends for Christmas dinner and was miserable, the pain wasnt as severe but I was still hitting the bathroom every 20 minutes or so and feeling miserable in between visits. I went to bed that night with little pain BUT was wide awake at 5am with sharp pains in my lower right , ovaries? NOT, within 20 minutes I was an absolute mess and begging my husband to do something, I was on the floor on my belly trying to get the pain to go away. My husband took me to the ER,,scarey thing is the pain was so bad I dont remember the ride. After 3 pain shots into an IV and an abdominal CT scan it was determined to be a kidney stone. OUCH! I was sent home 5 hours later on percocet, flomax and filtering everything coming out. It came, phew, what a relief. I went to a uroligist 3 days later and when he found out about my band he immediately told me to DRINK water more often! He said that a problem with some people who get the band is that they tend to feel full longer and dont drink as much as they should. He said that will lead to kidney stones in some people, no matter what their age. I drink alot more now than I did before that visit. Im glad your feeling better.:thumbup: My stone was made up of Protein and 2 MM.

i just hope it was the right meds haha

when i was younger i use to get UTI's all the time and if its what i really have then its the second time i got it since being banded.

ouch that stinks, i didnt have that much pain thank god, thats good its out now

yeah i'm affraid that if i drink too much of anything i will throw it back up, but i do know that i need to drink more water, the thing about the medicine i'm on is if you dont eat enough with it, you will get so nauseous and ugh i didn't eat enough with it yesturday and i was so nauseous later at night so i ate some crackers it made it go away :wink2: but i drank some water which also helped and when i was taking a shower it felt like my band was going to explode? lol idk but it felt really tight and i have no fill so hmh lol

thanks :w00t:

Glad you got to the doc. Hope you feel better quickly.

I'm glad you went to the doctor and hope the medication works fast for you.

thanks peeps (:

alright, i will

You should research gallstone and gallbladder problems. When you lose so much weight, you are a candidate. Look at the symptoms on Webmd. The symptoms you describe could be that. It is painful but will subside.

TJ

okay (:, i didnt lose too too much weight yet, but i always wondered

I watched Dr Oz on TV and he said peppermint tea was good for UTIs. I have been drinking it a couple of times a week and so far so good. I had an infection that just kept coming back over and over and this has helped. And it is good on a cold winter night

i had that when i had severe nausea, it tasted weird to me, i'm not really a tea drinker so it would be hard for me to drink it, but i thought it helped with the nausea

anyhow, i'm not even sure a UTI is what i have, i had all the symptoms and everything but i just dont think the medicine is helping, i mean i dont have the migrane or back and adominal pains anymore but last night i went to bed at one woke up not even an hour later with reallly bad adominal pain well around my belly button, it felt like it cramped up and i felt like i was on the urge of puking, it hurt i couldnt sleep on my side for awhile, i dont know what this is, the medicine i dont know, it makes me nauseated even if i eat something with it and again when i took a shower last night my band felt tight again

It could be Gallbladder problem like a previous poster has mentioned. This is happened to me. I had pains like you described and a scan revealed gallstones and a damaged gallbladder. I have to have this removed next month. This is a common problem following lapband surgery. Like all these things, we will just be guessing in giving our opinion though and it will need a proper medical examination to get a correct diagnosis.

As a side issue, I wouldn't dream of lecturing people from the states on politics, but I am just so glad here in the UK that I dont have to worry about having to pay for medical care and it is free at the point of delivery. I have been in and out of hospital so many times over the last year and worrying about paying for it on top of my illness would have been too much to bear.

Hope everything works out fine for you.

It could be Gallbladder problem like a previous poster has mentioned. This is happened to me. I had pains like you described and a scan revealed gallstones and a damaged gallbladder. I have to have this removed next month. This is a common problem following LAP-BAND® surgery. Like all these things, we will just be guessing in giving our opinion though and it will need a proper medical examination to get a correct diagnosis.

As a side issue, I wouldn't dream of lecturing people from the states on politics, but I am just so glad here in the UK that I dont have to worry about having to pay for medical care and it is free at the point of delivery. I have been in and out of hospital so many times over the last year and worrying about paying for it on top of my illness would have been too much to bear.

Hope everything works out fine for you.

i wanted to get checked for that when i was rushed to the hospital on Dec. 2nd when i had insurance but i didnt. and now i just dont have the money for it or else i really would.

thanks

my culture came back and it said i do have a UTI, so they gave me new medicine and i hope it doesnt make me so nauseous like the other one

I've read the entire forum, and I'm not sure if I have UTI. I had a CBC done yesterday, and got a shot in the but to fight any infections, but the results came back normal. No infections at all, yet i still have lower abdominal pain. The pain usually comes and goes, more so when I eat or drink. What does the lower abdomen have to do with the band located above the stomach? As I'm typing I can feel the pain, sharp pains at the lower left area, sometimes along the belly button. I did have a problem with Water. I would drink maybe a cup or two a day.

I hope I dont have a kidney stone!