Hi I am a 26yr male and I have LPHS for the past 6 years I have had kidney stones since age 14 and I’ve had about every surgery that a person can go thru for stones. I currently moved back to Omaha NE and I can’t get any help here even if my doc in Aurora CO calls and talks with them. The urologist told me that he can’t help me and to go back to CO which I wish that I could as I had a great doc, she was the one who diagnosed me with lphs as I pee blood on a regular basis and I ha’ve so much unbearable pain I was taking oxycodone 120mg a day, lyrica 450mg daily and I would have a ketamine injections as needed as it resets your pain receptors and helps so I dont have to take as many pain pills and it really works.

So before I left co due to not being employed I had no place to live I’m trying to get SSdI I have a lawyer so I hope that I can get it this time around since I have been diagnosed with lphs I really need it and now. As I cannot work due to chronic pain and I’m not a reliable person as I’m always at the hospital or seeing some doc … Like gp, urologist, pain specialist, nephrologist and they tell me – “I’m sorry, I can’t help you, I don’t know how to treat you”!!! I have been on about every pain med known to man … The docs try and put me on methadone, but it makes me super sick and kills my stomach. I’ve tried suboxone as well and same thing.

I am so sick of getting the run around, I am close to selling everything I own, which isn’t much anymore and move to Germany as they are #1 in the world for health care. I just feel like dying, I can’t take this damn pain anymore I’m just plain tired sick in tired of being sick and tired and no one understands, not my family or friends.

I just want to be pain free once again, I want to be able to work again and live a normal life, but we all know that won’t happen. No cure for lphs. They say, sometimes it will just go away, but I can’t see that happening as I’ve had it for the past 6years. I’m tired of docs looking at me like I just want pain meds when I just want a doc to help me, like I had in Colorado. Yea, I could move back there but I’d have no place to go and I don’t want to have to sleep in my car again as that’s no way of life, but neither is having lphs. And me being so young I am scared that it’s just going to get worse as I get older.

I keep getting infections like mrsa and vre. I currently have mrsa again. I’ve been on bactrum for so long that it doesn’t work for what I have now.

I am really considering suicide as I can’t take this anymore, all I am is a burden to my family. My mom tells me that I suck the life out of her and I just feel worthless even more. I’m tired of chronic pain, I’m tired of my left side and left testicle hurting all thee time. It just isn’t fair for people like us and very unfortunate and our government controls it all and it’s bs. LPHS needs to be on the list for ssdi. Thank you for reading my story I sure hope it can help some one.

I have been dealing with Flank pain of unknown origin, chronic kidney stones, all kinds of gastro misdigagnosis for 22 years. I was the full time care giver for my father with COPD followed almost right away by my mother comming down with ovarian cancer. Now that both have passed, my brother and sister became my trusties. They refuse to give any creedence to this diagnosis. They both have no medical backround and have come to the conclusion that any pain managment doc is only a drug dealer and that I can not afford health inn. And if I want to eat more than my food stamps I need to get off my lazy butt. They both have told me to go hold a sign or be bouncer. They have both told me to get over it, every one has to work. They both have said any time we speak, it is all BS about pain, vomiting. My sister screamed at me that getting to BJ’s to shop for the month is not an accomplishment, yet some days it is an epic journey to do 2 things. I am now living with 2 LPHS diagnosis, no pain meds, no doctor and they not only make me feel like a usless burden but that somehow I have let them down by not living up to my potential. I dont know where to turn for help or support in Miami. Every day I wake up feeling like I have been kicked in the scrotum, the pain causes me to vomit with such force, that I often pull muscles in my back and neck. I was on the 50 pu Fentanyl patch and oral Dilaudid, Morphine for breakthrough. Now on no pain killers, it is such a trial to even be civil. I have no way to get through to my siblings, this pain is horrendous and so arresting, but they treat me as if this “life” is some kind of a choice to avoid employment. I am 47 years old and this is the worst the pain has been. Without the Fentanyl I am getting more done, but the recovery days are lost time of my life.

I was diagnosed with LPHS in 2009, Dr. Singri and Dr. Hebert in Columbus, Ohio. This was the beginning of a my now ongoing horrific experience, I am now 60 dealing with unrelenting exquisite pain. In 2007 through 2008, after numerous kidney stones, pain that was unrelenting, blood in urine, I had stones shattered by la-pro-scopic lazor, a stent was placed in my kidney to ease the passing, all that did was put me back in the hospital where the stent had to be removed. I was told by a kidney specialist in Arizona, my pain didn’t make any sense.

In 2009 a miracle, I made an appointment with Dr. Singri, my Mother and Sister accompanied me, I described in intricate detail of my pain and symptoms; he said, I believe you have LPHS, a biopsy confirmed the diagnoses, pain management is the only option. I had already lost my job, my independence, my home, everything. Even my family and friends doubted everything I described. My Mother would lay on top of me to quiet my screams as she tried to squash the pain. I can not get relief in any position, sitting, standing even laying down makes it worse. I am usually sitting Indian style just rocking back and forth.

Over the last few years I have also been diagnosed with severe depression, fibra-myialga, psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis . I was an inconvenience to my family, I now live in a rooming house in Delaware, Ohio. The first pain specialist prescribed Oxycontin, preformed a d enervation, by inserting a four inch needle into my spine, more pain the effort was unsuccessful. After losing 50 pounds, and when I witnessed the doctor stealing my medication I sought help at OSU hospital. They started IR and ER morphine, fentanyl patches, seroquil, clonazapam and anti depressants, lyrica and steroids. On the pain scale I was then a 7 which seemed like a gift from God. Until last summer, when I was admitted to Grant Hospital with kidney failure. I was told I was over-medicated, they prescribed Cymbalta and IR morphine every 4 hours. The pain nightmare was back a full force 10. I was released a week later, still with a critical kidney infection the pain was unbearable, I tried unsuccessfully to end my life, to be free of this burden of pain and the inconvenience of my existence. By this time I was wheelchair bound. Unable to care for myself with no desire to live or thrive. I wanted to be free.

I am now seeing a new pain specialist, who has admitted his lack of expertise with LPHS. He began by prescribing Zonagran (side effect, kidney stones) I had to stop after passing 5 stones in one week, now on Baclofen, Gabapentin and Opana 20 mgs ER every 12 hours, the morphine is no longer effective. At the onset the main issues affected my right kidney, now as Dr. Singri suggested the left kidney has joined in, again the prescribed medications lack effectiveness, level 8 and rising everyday. I don’t know what to do…..should I see Dr. Singri or Dr. Hebert again or seek help at a pain clinic? There is so much more to my story, if your interested I can go into further detail of my struggles and losses.

What do I do now?