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I am now about 28 weeks and I am about to have my stent replaced. when i was 16 weeks, i went to by gynae for my monthly check up and told him that for the last 2 days I had had severe back pain on my left side. After my urine came back positive for blood he sent it in for testing. I barely made it home (5minutes away). Phoned my husband who immediately came home and took me back to the gynae - he submitted me to the hospital where I had a sonar (the specialist at the time spent 10 minutes first looking at the baby while i am lying there in serious pain and throwing up with morning sickness and pain) and an x-ray taken - they could definately see something was obstructing but due to the size of my uterus and potential harm to my baby they could not do a proper x-ray or ultra-sound to see exactly where the stones were / are!. 5 hours later they finally decide to give me some pain killers an hour later i was in the OR having a stent put in - I have found it uncomfortable at times but not unbearable - it is now 3 months later and I am about to go in to have it replaced - ironically i started last night having the most unbelievable pains on my right side now and it feels exactly the same as when my stones were moving in my left kidney - so i am hoping one has not developed in the right kidney as well. The unfortunate part about it is that they can't really do anything until i have had my baby. The stent at least relieves pressure and stops any blockage and subsequent possible loss of a kidney. This is not 1905 and thank God because if it was we would have just had to pass them on our own, with the possibility of lossing a kidney, your child and with possibly more harmfull painkillers being administered at that time.
All in all It is a technically short period of your life an although it is excruciatingly painful - we have to grin and bear for our sake and for our childrens sake. - I am so sick of water though!!

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