I have one kidney that has shrank and not suppose to be working and one that has enlarged to make up for the other one but they went to put a catheter in tonight to run some lab work cause my symptoms r getting worse and they had trouble putting it in and was very painful still suffering 4 hours later why is this
What fits your description is something called as compensatory hypertrophy of the other kiddy because of reduced function and thus shrinkage in the size of one kidney. Nothing can be done for the shrunken kidney in most cases, but one can have enough kidney function with the sole kidney which has got hypertrophied. Ad Chat Doctor.