renal and kidney disease

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My husband has experienced some extreme pain in his back, lower on

either side. He weight 240 (he is 5'10) abut a year ago, he has

since dropped down to 170 or less, repidly since then. His face

looks drawn, ragged, his skin seems to hang on him like he has no

muscle mass and he is tired so much. He describes being in pain

almost all the time, but as I said this last week was the worst, and

he thought he was passing a kidney stone. There was blood in his

urine, and he was doubling over. We go to a military hospital and

got in a one day appointment. They just gave him pain pills, and

said if he didn't feel better by the following wednesday (it was

friday) he was scheduled to have a ct scan. His pain subsided

somewhat, but I was determined he take the test anyway because it is

continuous, and I felt something was wrong. He was originally to

have the CT scan with enema. Instead they took some preliminary

scans, then sent him over to lab to have lab tests. After waiting

forever for the lab results he finally had the test, no enema, but he

did have the IV dye scan.

I called the nurse at the clinic where we go today (he went back to

work, he works some days under the table as he tries to get full VA

benefits), said he felt good enought, but truthfully, he was worried

about the money. anyway, as I said I called, to make a follow up

appointment, none available until february. but I asked her to see if

the results were up. They were and she read them, then read them to

me. they scared the crap out of me, and I don't know what to do.

The ct scan said it showed he had renal/kidney disease, something

about his liver and something about a cyst on his kidney. I cant

remember the order or exact words, it all was a jumble to me. It

said he needed follow up MRI to verify, didn't say anything about the

blood tests, I don't know. She said she was going to stick it under

the doctors nose to see what he wanted to do about it. Tht was early

this morning.

does anyone know what this means, does it mean he has cancer, kidney

failure, or leading to kidney failure, the fact the the ct said this

is pretty conclusive isnt it, even though they said MRI should follow

up.

I'm scared, and I dont know what to tell him when he comes home.

because I don't know what it means, or what it means for his future.

I do know he has been sick for awhile now. He has major mood swings,

some dizzy spells and seems to have some kind of memory loss that is

really weird. He will go through days at a time where I cant get him

out of bed, almost like he is sedated, then other days, he seems fine.

can someone help me or lead me to the right place to go.,

linda