OK. Good luck. Actually the best thing is to test positive for COVID and have no symptoms. Then you don;t have to be afraid of it anymore.
I hope it becomes very boring soon. Sounds like they didn't see anything overly suspicious, then?
How's peeing now? I would have replied earlier but my internet is on the fritz.
Nothing overly suspicious, at least not so far. Prior to the procedure, my urologist was heavily favoring the theory that my past as a cancer survivor (they went into my abdomen something fierce for 3 different surgeries and I had radiation therapy) is the culprit. I'm hoping this isn't a care of confirmation bias on their part or on mine, but even if it is, I think chances are high that the theory is correct.
Peeing isn't difficult like it was at first -- and that makes sense, considering they did stick a tube up there so they could look around and then leave a stent in the ureter (not urethra, to be quite clear). I guess the swelling was understandably pretty severe at first. The flow now feels like it did before the surgery, as does the frequency in need to urinate. The thing that's freaking me out pretty badly is how much blood and debris is coming out. I can go an entire day with normal looking pee, only to wake up at night to relieve myself and fill the toilet with red kool-aid. The surgery discharge directions very clearly state that blood in the urine while the stent is in place is normal and expected, but it's been a week since the surgery at this point and I dunno, I guess I figured that would have stopped by now... and why does it stop and start? What is going on in there? And yet somehow, I'm still not really anxious about it and I'm not sure why. But it is unsettling and curious nonetheless.
I actually haven't gotten an explanation for that! Since the kidney is nowhere near the area where I was feeling stuff, that's gone unanswered! But also, I don't really feel it anymore. Looks like yet another phantom sensation that's come and gone. Gotta love those. I was pretty certain it was my gallbladder based on the location, but now... who knows, it could have been my abdominal muscles from the way I sit on my exercise ball at my desk. Or maybe it really was a weird feeling radiating from my noticeably-enlarged kidney. Bodies are so dang weird. I'm sorry you're in a "live with it" situation but I'm glad you got answers and have a plan of action. I'm still in limbo.
I know how you feel about your body sending you signals. It makes it hard to live a normal life. The fact that the weird feeling went away for a while is good. I would think if it were a mass that you would have it all the time.
i get the feelings too in the same spots. sometimes i feel then under my right rib and more lately i feel it under my left rib. i told my dr about it countless times and he said there’s nothing there besides the liver and spleen. i would research and see like oh it’s my lymph nodes in my stomach they’re enlarged but why cuz of cancer? idk i get too in my head but i’ve felt the feeling too. it’s not pain or anything it’s just an uncomfortable sensation that like comes and goes it’s so weird and unexplainable. you aren’t alone.
Had the same feeling for years!! I used to drink quite a bit and was positive my liver was telling me to stop. I absolutely obsessed over it! I quit drinking and the same day the feeling went away. My liver was fine. But I do have IBS and acid reflux. It was a weird dull feeling, but yup I've had it, had tests ran everything was a ok.
Almost positive it's a acid stomach issue. Your liver has no nerve endings.
Yeah it's almost certainly stomach, intestines, or abdominal muscles. Whatever it is, it's mysterious and obnoxious. For what it's worth, I don't drink, so I've never worried about any sort of alcohol-related liver stuff. At least I can cross that off the list!
Yip there ya go! I quit drinking a year ago. My pain was almost psycho- somatic. Like I'd I'd really be fine till I thought or obsessed over it, like a nerve fiber in a muscle.
That's good. I usually find some kind of exercise that helps with some pain. I get terrible neck pain if I don't do shoulder shrugs with 30- 40 pound weights. I have piriformis syndrome in my right hip and that improves a lot if I walk 2 -3 miles. Running might help more but that's tough with my bad foot.