Sister is 45. Went in and got blasted. Less than a week later was ambulanced to the hospital with a temp of 102 1/2 and chills. They admitted her and she's been in the hospital for a week. They took an ultrasound, cat scan - other than the kidney infection they found gallstones which they are not worried about (?). She still had a high temp after 4 days. Last night she was on her fourth antibiotic - Zosyn. This one made her feel great by the next morning. She'd had a constant headache all week and it finally went away. Her kidneys were sore too.

Here's the thing. Before she got zapped, at a different hospital, she told them she didn't feel well and her kidneys had been hurting her for a while. Between the time they had initially told her she had kidney stones to the procedure was over a month. The doctors at the hospital she is in now told her that she most likely had an infection before her procedure. I told her she should ask just how sick she really was and were exactly was the infection - did it spread outside the kidney.

They told her that the other hospital should not have done the procedure and should have cleared up the infection first.

Any thoughts? thanks

Hi, not sure if she had antibiotics when she had the procedure to zap the kidneys. I don't think she had a fever. I will ask her both these questions. thanks. I am concerned about the gallstones and their lack of interest. She may go home tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.

I don't understand your sister's treatment. In women, infection usually occurs with kidney stones. Before my open surgery for stones, I received antibiotics for 2 weeks.

There is an article in PubMed by Dr. EK Michaels (my urologist) about gallstones being broken up as a side effect of lipotripsy (sp)

My sister had her kidney stones 'zapped' in the tank. She finally went home yesterday. She is taking zosyn which they put into a horse pill for her. They had intially said they were going to show her boyfriend how to change the iv bag! She is doing much better. They said the gallstones are not bothering that's why they don't do anything. Doc said we could all be walking around with gallstones and not even know it. thanks for your support.