Kidney removal

[JLeflet]

How often will a kidney stone lead to kidney removal?

[Bassetmommer]

Hi Jleftet,

that all depends. I had really bad stones for about five years. I passed most of them and three remained that were too large to pass. I went on allopurinol and sodium citrate and the last stones dissolved. And I still have both of my kidneys. They don't work well..... especially the one that had the stones.

[JLeflet in reply to Bassetmommer]

2 weeks ago they removed my right kidney it too a year of tring one thing after another even though they knew it was comletely blocked

[Ange17]

I had hydronephrosis. Not sure if it was caused by a stone or not as it was caught too late,(misdiagnosed)and doctors couldn’t tell as my kidney was just a hot mess when I had to have it removed in January of 2015.

[RickHow]

I'm surely no doctor but I can't imagine kidney stones being the ultimate cause of a kidney being removed! I'm sure there is some few odd cases as there are about anything in life. But generally small kidney stones will pass on their own eventually. Larger more painful stones (or stubborn small ones) would be removed the kidney "surgically". Jleflet wrote their kidney was removed after a year of trying to remove a blockage. Not sure if this was a kidney stone blockage. My father had a stone blockage. They to make it pass with a couple of attempts. Finally they went into the kidney (through the urethra), broke the stone sonically.

[RickHow]

Here is a link to a descriptive article that should answer your question. Ultimate kidney removal caused by a stone is not usual. Specifically scan down to the prognosis and treatment section of this link:

merckmanuals.com/home/kidne...

[WYOAnne]

I don't think it happens very often unless it is a large stone and does a lot of damage. Or if the stone causes blockage. I too have had a couple of stones in the past. Both were small enough that they passed.

[JLeflet in reply to WYOAnne]

It was a very large stone the size of a thumb we don't know how long it was in there

[JLeflet]

Thaks for Rickhow

the link

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I got rid of my kidney stones by lithotripsy.

[netie54]

Hi there. I am at stage 3a. It was discovered in December that I have 2 small stones in one of my kidneys.

A consultant urologist and my nephrologist both advises me that they would not be addressing the stones . Sometimes zapping the stones can be more detrimental to the body than leaning them hopefully to pass naturally.