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I was 6 months pregnant when I had kidney stones and was unable to pass them. I went into kidney failure and had the stents put in. While in the hospital for a week I went into labor (luckily they stopped it) and got pneumonia. Recovery was extremely painful. I was on morphine in the hospital and viacodin when I got out. I got myself off viacodin after 2 weeks because I was scared of it hurting the baby no matter what they said. It never really took the pain away anyway. Having those stents in for 4 months made labor seem like a walk in the park. I would cry every day from the pain but somehow I made it through and had my son at 37 weeks. It was all worth it. Now I am 8 months preganant without any kidney problems. I drink tons and tons of water and absolutely no caffeine. I wanted another baby so bad that I was willing to risk going through all that again but I do everything I can to prevent kidney trouble.
As for someone who wrote about changing out the stents. My doctor never did but I was on macrobid antibiotics the rest of my pregnancy because the build up would not allow bladder infections to clear up. As for the pain, I continued to work because it would take my mind off the pain. But, I have a sit down job. It was very painful to walk around I remember. I used a rice sock that I heated up and put that around my lower back all the time. That was the only thing that actually gave me some relief.

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