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Hi All,
Firstly thank to everyone for their posts. It has been fantastic to find that I'm not alone.
I was diagnosed in our local hospital ER with kidney stones about 2 weeks ago after suffering with horrendous pain on my right side.
However, unlike many who have posted before me, I have found the stent that was put in an absolute saviour for me. The pain has gone from an 8 or 9 to a 1 - 2 (if that). Not sure if I'm really lucky or not, however I'm really grateful. The pain I am getting I'm managing with panadol/tylanol (eg over the counter pain relief medication).
My understanding is the difficulty in pregnancy is that many of the "normal" solutions (eg surgery under general anesthetic and/or breaking the stones with laser etc) can be higher risk for damage to the baby or increased risk of going into premature labour (at 25 weeks not an option I wanted) so that stent is design to take away the pressure from the kidney as an interim measure.
From all the research I have done and talking with my obgyn and urologist the main solution seems to be water, water and more water - very sick of drinking it however at least it is a straight forward management plan.
Main thing I'm not looking forward to is the replacement of the stent - because of the additional calcium in our systems during pregnancy the stent gets blocked over time and needs to be replaced. Hoping that my good situation doesn't change at that point!!
Good luck all.

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