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Hi Denise, I thought I might be able to give you a bit of advise from my recent experiences (my story is listed above, May 15). I’m now 30.5 weeks. I had a stint put in May 11th to this was done as an out patient procedure. I was sent home with antibiotics. I have had two ultrasounds that have shown nothing. My urologist says either I have kidney stones that just aren’t showing in ultrasound or I have a smaller opening of the ureter to the kidney and the baby is just squishing it. He said either way the pain is there for a reason that reason being that the kidney cannot drain properly this causes pain and could be very dangerous if not treated. SO…I dealt with the first stint by pretty much sitting, drinking and crying due to the pain. I was in so much pain. Just last week I woke up and for two days straight I was feeling really achy, sore, and the pain had returned drastically in my side. I drove myself to the hospital. After some tests and another ultrasound the doctor discovered that my stint had calcified in my bladder. It had to be replaced. It is VERY important that I mention that this doctor was a different Urologist than preformed my first surgery to put the stint in. I had the stint replaced, and was kept in the hospital for 5 days. I was pumped with antibiotics like you wouldn’t believe. Contractions also started and had to be stopped. I have been out of the hospital for 7 days so far. I will tell you the complete truth, the stint is really painful. I take my pain meds to help with the pain (Vicodin 750). The pain from the second stint is so much less than the first. I truly truly truly believe this is due to the fact that I was kept in the hospital pumped with antibiotics to get rid of any infection. I know I had a bladder infection with the first stint. Each time I called my Urologist to tell him he said that I was on antibiotics and that the stint was just supposed to cause “discomfort”. My second Urologist, the one from the hospital (the man sent down from heaven to help me) told me that I had been carrying an infection and it just overrode the antibiotics I had first been prescribed. I would advise you to: 1) have the stint put in to help pass the wastes from your kidney, 2) DO NOT let them just send you home right after, you need intravenous antibiotics and pain meds (morphine) to get you through the recovery period. For the first two or so days it will burn like hell when you pee the morphine will help you get through this period. The antibiotics will rid any infection, if you can be sure to go home from the hospital infection free you are going to thank me in the long run!!! It will save you from so much pain. 3) When they send you home make sure to get a script for pain meds to take while at home. Fill it. Take them. I was soooo afraid to take the pain meds for fear that it would hurt my baby. I now know that by being in pain is what can actually hurt my baby. This is my advise to you. I hope that it helps you. T

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