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Renal Fusion / Horseshoe kidney. Any one with experience in adults?

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PavlovtheCat · 29/05/2012 22:09

had mri for potential lumbar disc problem, (which i do apparantly have, but not nerve entrapment) its been identified that i have two joint kidneys, and the osteo who was very cagey said possible urine passing back up to kidneys. He was very surprised that i was not in more pain that I am, and on reading this might be that there is something going on as it seems that renal fusion does not necessarily cause problems, if asymptomatic. He asked me lots and lots of probing questions before telling me what was found and seemed nervous about telling me! I am now symptom spotting...

Anyway, he called me late yesterday, and said he is contacting my own gp to arrange an ultra-sound 'just worth checking it all out' he said. DH thinks this is a good thing as if a problem i would be sent to hosp not gp.

anyway. its all new, i know little about it and would like more info, other than I appear to be a bit mutant Grin.

I have read some stuff that suggests my aggrevated lumbar pain might be linked. osteo said it might be, but clearly does not know.

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PavlovtheCat · 29/05/2012 22:10

i meant also to say that most of the info I read about this is related to children as that is when it is normally diagnosed. Obviously that either did not happen to me or my mother did not tell me (but not on my notes...) osteo was surprised it was not noticed on ultrasound scans when pg, but I had a lot due to possible problems with both babies (not related) so I guess they concentratd on baby and not me. Not sure how obvious it would be...

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PavlovtheCat · 30/05/2012 16:03

bump

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PavlovtheCat · 30/05/2012 17:18
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FrozenChocolate · 30/05/2012 17:24

My son has a horseshoe kidney, discovered by accident, and has no probs whatsoever, not very helpful to you I suppose!

This is a bump for you as well!

PavlovtheCat · 30/05/2012 17:26

frozen no that is helpful! I am hoping it will be the same! As it was also found by accident. It might be that the back pain is made worse by something going on, or, it might be completely incidental, so to find out about one person who has no issues is positive!

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FrozenChocolate · 30/05/2012 17:39

I got the distinct impression from the hospital staff that it was medically interesting, no more than that. The person doing the scan called a couple of colleagues over as they had never seen one before, and they all said "oooh look at that"!

cambridgeferret · 31/05/2012 14:19

Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney He seems healthy enough.

PavlovtheCat · 01/06/2012 21:28

cambridge that is the first thing my DH told me when he googled it Grin

I feel less concerned. Or rather, I did until finding out I cant take NSAIDs for my back pain right now til I can speak to my gp...

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