Question

This past Tuesday, I had outpatient procedure done. Here's what they did...they did a cystoscopy; ran dye up both ureters to the kidney; found nothing. Very routine. They were going to do kidney biopsies and saw no reason to, so they didn't. (I had bladder cancer 6 years ago, so that was the reason for the procedure....saw a slight swelling on the left kidney which they found were liquid filled cysts during the procedure.) For 6-8 hours after I got home, I felt like a million bucks. No reason for any pain meds at all. Late that night, I had to fill the hydrocodone, 5mg/325APAP (which I'm thinking is something like tylenol mixed in). I was taking one every three hours thru the night and into the next day. By the afternoon, I'd called to ask if I could take more because I was in excruciating pain. They said double it up, which still didn't even take the edge off. So I went to the emergency room. I was in really terrible pain. Both kidneys were tender to the touch and that's where all the pain was coming from. They "snuck up on the pain" with some morphine and did a urinalysis, which they said was normal. Then did an ultrasound checking kidneys and saw gallstones. So they tried to tell me I was having a gallbladder attack. I'm an EXPERT on gallbladder attacks. I told the doctor it wasn't that. He said, Well, that's where we are here." I told him that 30% of people over the age of 40 have gallstones with no symptoms and that it was not gallstone pain. He asked me what I thought it was and I told him I thought it had something to do with the procedure the day before. They had a surgeon come in anyway. She pressed on my gallbladder. I told her to press harder. There was no pain. I took her hand and moved it to the painful area and asked what THAT was. She said, "That's your kidney. You don't have gallbladder symptoms." She left and they brought in a urologist who asked that the same sample I'd given them be retested. Everyone was asking me if I had any burning on urination. None at all. Anyway, she came right back in and said, "We've got it. You have clamedia (however you spell it). That was the diagnosis on the discharge. Since discharge the day before yesterday, I had one terrific bout of pain yesterday that I worked thru and since early this morning have been off pain meds. But my kidney is still really tender to the touch. I'm 62 years old. Haven't had sex with my 12-year partner in 5 years. In the past 30 years, I have two sexual partners. I had just had a urinalysis two weeks ago before the surgery. It certainly didn't show up. I had had a urinalysis when I first got to the emergency room, and it didn't show. Only when they were stumped did they come to that conclusion. To ME it was some sort of complication from the surgery done the day before. This makes me mad because it looks to me like they're protecting the surgeon. And this doesn't do patients any good at all. I don't think he necessarily did anything wrong, I just think that (best case scenerio) maybe in some patients, they get this absolutely extruciating pain after that procedure. I don't particularly want to be "on record" at this hospital as having to have morphine for clamedia as I think it indicates a ridiculously low threshhold of pain. And worried I won't be taken seriously with this on record for the future. Have you ever heard of clamedia with no ST? Have you ever heard of clamedia needing morphine? What do you think of all of this? And do you think I should pursue this diagnosis? Please don't think I'm crazy. PS -- I had a bladder tumor removed with very little pain medication needed afterwards. I don't remember taking anything besides Tylenol. I also have cystopcopies regularly....with just a local and right back to work afterwards. Any light you can shed on this situation would be much appreciated.