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I am 10 weeks pregnant and before I even knew I was pregnant (turns out I was about 5 weeks) I was having bad pain in my lower abdomen and in my back. I thought it was possibly something bad that I ate or maybe cramps before I started my period. I couldn't stand up straight and felt very weak so left work early, went home and made an appointment with my doctor for the next morning around 10 am. The next morning I woke up early with severe lower abdominal pain on the right ride…I could not stand it and cried for hours thinking that I would just see my doctor at 10. At 8am I couldn’t take it any more so I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with a UTI and a pregnancy! They gave me morphine while I was in the hospital and the pain subsided. They sent me home that afternoon with antibiotics. The pain came back once I was home and remained for the next few days, but eventually began to subside. I was okay for about two weeks, just super nauseous and weak and tired. I thought it was all just first trimester symptoms.

2 weeks later, January 14th, I began having major pain again, but this time it was worse. I finally went back to the emergency room the next day, on the 15th and waited for 9 and ½ HOURS! When they finally saw me they did an ultrasound, found an 8 mm kidney stone (a normal stone one can pass is between 4 and 5 mm) and immediately admitted me to the hospital. I stayed for 3 days, during which I received surgery and had the dreaded STINT put in. My doctor told me there would be pain for the first couple days and blood in my urine, but that it would go away and there would just be discomfort through my pregnancy. He plans to leave the stint in me for the remainder of my pregnancy – 7 and ½ MONTHS. I am in constant pain, urinate blood regularly and cannot be on my feet for more than 20 minutes without feeling like my vaginal area is going to explode! I work retail and need to be on my feet but I just feel like I can’t physically do it. I am in school also and just walking to class is exhausting – I walk so slow and clench my fists the entire time because of the pain. I don’t know what to do. My doctor informed me of the other procedure, the one where a tube goes through your back, but my urologist, general practictioner, on call OB and my regular OB all said they thought the stint would be better. But seriously, 7 and ½ months with this stint in me just does not seem viable. I am so distracted by the pain in my own body, I can barely even think about the baby inside me. I am afraid to take the painkillers for fear of hurting the baby, and according to many other women’s posts on here, they don’t work anyway. I honestly just don’t know what to do…

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