My most recent one, I hobbled up to the ED desk and said I think I have a kidney stone, she said it looked like it 
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I went to ER after 24 hours of pain - wasn’t sure what it was. CAT scan showed a 6mm stone.
I’m drinking an insane amount of water (which I should anyways), I take 2 Tylenol 500mg 2x a day, I might also take 3 200mg of Advil 1x a day (staggered with Tylenol), and an Oxy before I go to bed if pain is present. So far, my extreme pain has been at night.
ER Doctor suggested giving it a week, if pain is manageable and no sign of infection (fever\vomiting).
There are multiple procedures for getting the stone out.
I have had one. I soaked in hot bath, that helped expedite. And yes, it felt like a Jeep Wrangler drove down my ureter.
In your soul.
They have a desk for ED? Man, they take their erection difficulties seriously, huh?
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Lower left quadrant. bad pain and feeling of having to pee really bad…
thats while its leaving and in transition. then it hits the bladder.
Funny story, I am at work, and just start getting this, don’t feel well, sorta gotta pee a lot, decide I might be passing stone. Have a 4 o’clock meeting. tell my coworker I am going home, will be on call but probably not saying much (I was main person for call, so he had to cover) first half the meeting, I am pacing round, in discomfort, yes no answers when needed. Finally peed (it passed) caught in mesh strainer. felt 100% after, was talking on call all good. Next day. I told him I passed it half way through the meeting. He was like. Ah i was wondering what the hell happened cause, you were a different person. Passing it is no where near the pain of it moving from kidney to bladder.
this part is extra interesting
That’s how you know you passed it
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Ask for Flomax and Zofran
Morphine was pretty good
You mean you wouldn’t be able to tell by the sandspur exiting your urethra and the immediate relief afterwards?
i knew i passed mine by no longer puking from pain
but i guess catching the lil bastard is also a good time
I have never had a kidney stone, but I did learn that I am allergic to nonoxynol-9 which is used in spermacide. It turns out that it made me feel like someone was running a wire brush inside my junk and then pouring acid on the wound. For two days I cried whenever I peed. Needless to say we switched away from that after the first time.
That was probably TMI.
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“Probably”?
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No. Photos would have definitely been TMI. But since, according to you, I already crossed the line, I’ll post one as soon as I can find it. You only have yourself to blame.
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Seeing as we’re sharing kidney stone stories, I’ll rehash my own personal version of hell on earth from about 5 years ago. I endured almost 2 months of misery due to a kidney stone. At a project meeting one day I have some mild discomfort in my lower left abdomen. Nothing major, just a mild annoyance. Driving from that meeting back to my office and it suddenly evolves into crushing abdominal pain. On a scale of 1 to 10 this was definitely a 10. I happen to be a couple blocks from an ER so I drive myself there. Pain is so intense I almost have to crawl into the building. A series of blood tests, urine tests, CT scan, ultrasound and some other general poking and prodding ensue. Meanwhile, the pain has passed (lasted about an hour) despite no painkillers. They see a 5mm stone in my kidney but seeing as stones in the kidney aren’t supposed to cause pain, they assume I passed one and that is what the pain was from. They send me home and say I may or not pass the one in my kidney and to follow up with my primary doc.
The next day I’m hit with another round of intense pain. Go to the urgent care center of my primary doc’s practice. They assume I’m passing the other stone. Pain subsides after about an hour. They do an ultrasound and expect to see the stone in my bladder, but it’s not there. I hadn’t urinated so if it passed it should be sitting in my bladder. Now they’re stumped. Send me home with a referral to a urologist a few days later.
A couple days later, the same thing happens. They do another CT scan and another ultrasound and find the 5mm stone is still sitting in my kidney. Now they start thinking I may have some GI issue going on, and it’s just coincidental that I have a stone in my kidney. I have blood in my urine though (not visible) which points to the stone being the problem. I see the Urologist and he says that it if wasn’t for the blood he think it was something other than the stone. I see the GI specialist and they do a bunch of tests and rule out any GI issues.
A couple of weeks go by pain free, and then it hits again. This time, on a scale of 1 to 10 this is a 15. I essentially couldn’t function, could barely walk, and even talking took more concentration than my brain was willing to offer. My wife drives me to the ER and they do the whole suite of tests again. This time is different in that the pain won’t subside. They hit me with all kinds of meds to cut the pain. Ketorolac does nothing. Morphine helps bring the pain down to where I’m still in agony but don’t want to die, but only for a short while and only the first time. Round 2 of morphine did nothing. They bring out the real big guns and hit me with fentanyl. That brings the pain down to a 5, which is still pretty miserable.
At this point they’ve decided that the stone isn’t passing and it’s actually blocking up my kidney, causing swelling and the ensuing pain. They decide to admit me overnight so they can control the pain and insert a stent in the morning to help the kidney drain. This is done and they send me home. Now I get to endure 2 weeks of having a stent in, which means intense pain every time I urinate. After two weeks they remove the stent, do a cystoscopy to blast the stone into smaller pieces, and put a stent back in for another 2 weeks to make sure the small pieces pass. After that stent was removed I was finally back to normal.
This whole process was by far the most miserable experience I’ve had to go through and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Sorry forgot to reveal I’m on a 7 day Flowmax prescription as well
A little, yes. But I’m sure we’re all hoping that the story had a happy ending.
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With all these horrible stories perhaps people can share advice they’ve been given for preventing them reoccurring!
A few years back I recall peeing and feeling a short sharp pain downstairs. I looked to see what looked like a clot of blood had passed. Next day I was doing a little more business and as I urinated felt similar pain and again saw drops of fresh blood pass.
I went to a urologist and his verdict was that the 2hr ride I had done on a steamy night the day before this occurred, followed up by a run the day it occurred, was the possible cause. Theory being the empty bladder got irritated on the bike rubbing back and forth, then the bouncing motion from the run enhanced the irritation to the point of bleeding.
I also recall seeing a blood-soaked stone (ETA - not mine) in a urinal at work. It was huge. I would not wish that on anyone.