Kidney Stone [posted 7/16/98] Question: I have had a stent inserted to help move a large stone over 5 weeks ago. Is it normal to have increasing amounts of blood and small pinhead-sized clots in my urine?
The bleeding will likely last as long as the stent is in place. This is a foreign body which is used to keep the ureter open, trauma from the stent and/or the stone is responsible for the micro bleeding, which normal and usually unavoidable. Kidney Stones Question: I am a 65 year old male. Within the last 3 weeks I had kidney stones in each kidney , at separate times. The right side stone passed in about 5 hours without hospitalization. The left side was more severe, first being confirmed when passing dark brown urine one time. However, pain continued and the emergency room treatment with painkillers in a drip eliminated the pain. IVP indicated presence of stone and drainage of both kidneys to be no problem. They strained urine and collected several small specks that will be sent in for testing. These are the only attacks that I have had in 37 years when a stone was removed by surgical means. Prior to that I had two other attacks that occurred two to three years earlier and both passed
