Good afternoon Dr. Four days ago I was diagnosed with kidney stones have been getting a lot of pain in my lower back ,on the scale of 1 to 9. I feel I been having this condition for at least a year it has grown much worse. My doctor put me on antibiotics three weeks ago for a week not much success. He just put me on antibiotics the middle of last week for a month . The medicine that I m taking is sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim 800/160 tabs?I m leaving this week to go on Christmas vacation for three weeks should I do that or not.? The CAT scan and said that my kidney stones were fairly large. What else can I do? Thank you and have a Merry Christmas
HelloThanks for your query, based on the facts that you have posted it appears that you have large sized stones in your kidney (You have not mentioned size of the stones your query and location of stone). The pain that you have are due to obstructive myopathy due to stones and needs to be treated by endoscopic procedure either by Per Cutaneous Lithography if stones are located in renal pelvis or calyxes of kidney. Or by Ureteroscopy if stones are in the ureter. It is advisable to get treatment done before you go for vacation. Chat Doctor.