I can't recall ever having a patient with bilateral kidney stones before. That doesn't mean it cannot happen. I am neither a diagnostician, nor can I assess the patient, but gall stones would be my first guess. But it could be a number of things including something I haven't even thought of. The two big tests in my experience are a sonogram (ultrasound)of the abdomen and a ERCP which is a diagnostic procedure.

http://www.medicinenet.com/ercp/article.htm

Congrats on passing the stone, but I bet that was brutal. A mixed blessing. hey, its over, but GEEZ did that hurt!

Friday, I had a bit of a medical adventure myself. My cardiac arrhythmia decided to go apeshit and I woke up out of breath from atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response. It can be lethal. After calling the cardiac doc, they told me to get my ass to the ER and I did. That hung a bag of Cardizem to slow my heart and then they used defibrillator pads to shock my heart. It worked fortunately. I am back within a somewhat more normal sinus rhythm. But the shocks burned my chest and back where the pads were stuck. That's the 3rd time I have been defibrillated and it never gets any easier. It probably won't be my last either. This heart problem isn't going away. But I can live with it. Don't have much choice. And nobody asked my opinion.

I have come to the conclusion that its far better to be the nurse than the patient. Hospitals are scary from the bed looking up.