Left Kidney Pain

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I wouldn't worry about not having cut down on the Topamax. Fact is, you still have kidney pain a week on, and your GP said to come back in a week if it was still there (i.e. you haven't passed your stone).

That you still have kidney pain is much more important than that you haven't gone off the Topamax. All sorts of damage can be done to the renal system if a stone is present and causing long-term colic.

I don't mean to scare-monger, and I don't know the extent of your pain, but my urologist wrote a scathing letter to a major hospital when they failed to remove my kidney stone, because my kidney was at risk of atrophying (dying).

Doctors have protocols for a reason - your GP wanted you back in a week.
 
I phoned my GP surgery and made the appointment before I saw your post. :)
Tomorrow afternoon. I can nearly always get one for the next day which makes me wonder just how many people bother going to their GP round here.

Chel said:
I wouldn't worry about not having cut down on the Topamax. Fact is, you still have kidney pain a week on, and your GP said to come back in a week if it was still there (i.e. you haven't passed your stone).

That you still have kidney pain is much more important than that you haven't gone off the Topamax. All sorts of damage can be done to the renal system if a stone is present and causing long-term colic.

I don't mean to scare-monger, and I don't know the extent of your pain, but my urologist wrote a scathing letter to a major hospital when they failed to remove my kidney stone, because my kidney was at risk of atrophying (dying).

Doctors have protocols for a reason - your GP wanted you back in a week.
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*smile* Sorry if I came across as a nag. It's just that I didn't know the kidney could atrophy from being ignored until my urologist hit the roof when he found out the hospital hadn't removed the stone. I knew the pain was bad, but didn't know there were other consequences, too.

Good luck!
 
It's ok, you didn't. I was supposed to go back in a week anyway.
He filled out some form and gave it to me with a number to ring which I did for chest x-ray on Wednesday. That's quick, thought it would take ages and would have to wait for an appointment through the post, not heard of that method before.
 
Good luck! Let us know how you get on, and I hope you're not in too much pain in the meantime.

cheers
 
Chel said:
Good luck! Let us know how you get on, and I hope you're not in too much pain in the meantime.

cheers
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Thanks. Will do.
I'm hoping the new neurologist will give me a diagnosis so I can have a different medication.
 
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