I've only had two in my life, and they were enough. First one in the eighties pissed out after two days in hospital. The recent second one kicked me in the balls in October, then hung out in the bladder until last month, where it took a painfully slow trip through little Lenny which was made easier by some Flomax and generic antibiotics, but it was enough to make me start to drink lots more water every day.

I've passed two kidney stones that I know of. One went undiagnosed while I was pregnant, and I think it was lodged in my urethra when they put the catheter in for the C-section. The b*****s didn't care about my pain. I think they knocked me out just to shut me up. The thing popped out months later. I'd wondered what those weird little pinchy pains were.

The second one I could feel moving downward, and it did not hurt that much. It lasted maybe five minutes. I've had an entire baby unmedicated, and the pain was *much* worse. I guess I've been really lucky when it comes to kidney stones.

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platedlizard: FTFA: "He pulled the stint and it felt like I had five kids because, what he didn't know, is there were five calcified kidney stones that had formed to the stint," Calderon said.

And Calderon said removing the stint essentially opened the flood gates. By her count, she said she passed 63 stones over the next three days in the hospital.

"It's just one after another, after another, after another, and I was just holding on to my hospital chair like 'oh my gosh,'" she said.

I'm cringing.

Silly woman...you're supposed to have sand in your *vagina*.

lenfromak: I've only had two in my life, and they were enough. First one in the eighties pissed out after two days in hospital. The recent second one kicked me in the balls in October, then hung out in the bladder until last month, where it took a painfully slow trip through little Lenny which was made easier by some Flomax and generic antibiotics, but it was enough to make me start to drink lots more water every day.

The one thing the failed to mention about Flomax is a little detail called "retrograde ejaculation".

I was attempting to rid the world of another kitten and at the final meow there was no...um...stuff.

Scared the Fark out of me. I thought Little Lohphat pulled a Lehman Brothers on me.

Nidiot: fusillade762: lohphat: Women who've had them and who have kids prefer the pain of childbirth.

Yeah, but babies are way uglier.

...and you don't get arrested for throwing out the kidney stones.


But seriously, what is the good of all our advanced medical care if dealing with kidney stones is still compared unfavourably to childbirth? I've heard so many stories of how it is the worst pain ever, so I don't know why there are no standard procedures available yet that can deal with it and render those stories as belonging to the group that begin with "back in my day..." Sometimes I think doctors must simply be sadists.

The IV Toradol removed my pain in about 20 minutes. I went from fetal position with the feeling that Rosanne Barr was standing on my testicle with a stiletto to "I don't think death is a way out of this".

It never passed that I could tell. I had to go through a bilateral endoscopy to make sure there was nothing left so that I could get my flight medical certificate renewed.

The apparent cause was me eating Tums to treat undiagnosed EE. Now I'm on Prilosec as needed. No more stones.

DRINK MOAR WATER.

As I see, FARK-ers have had their share of kidney stones. Add me to the roster of that club.

When the pain hit, I thought I was going to die -- then later I was afraid I might NOT die. After what I considered the longest wait in ER history, trying not to scream, the Dr.s confirmed I was in genuine pain and shot me full of some stuff that quickly eased it down to nothing.

I suspect it was my starting to bend the rails on the examination bed with my bare hands that tipped them off.

After tests, they confirmed I had kidney stones. I think getting shot would have been less painful. I once had an impatient dentist try to pull a stubborn tooth that would NOT numb up and apparently had roots going down to my toes.

THAT was a walk in the park in comparison to the pain of kidney stones.

I learned all about the wonderful painkiller Oxycontin as I took a week to pass the darn things -- and discovered that this magical drug usually wears off about an hour before the next dose allowing the pain to jump right back in there with full force.

I also discovered it's NOT wise to take the painkiller too early. Makes you feel real good real fast -- and has some interesting side effects as well and you develop a mild case of withdrawal when you don't need it anymore.

Wonderful stuff for pain, but I can see why so many get addicted to it.

Never saw my stones because, even though you need to pee through a coffee filter like thing, there are times when you can't use it. I figure my stones slipped out that way.

I drink a lot more fluid now. I'm alert to changes in urine color and even mild twinges of pain around my kidneys draw my attention like never before.

They DO HAVE fast acting pain killers that they administer in the ER, but lately, with congress getting it's arse packed up all around it's head, it's becoming risky and complicated for Dr.s to do so. Like in the article, the lady could have passed the stones with no pain but obviously the Dr. declined to give her something powerful enough.

That's because his arse is on the line now. He needs to explain in detail his decision to use a major pain killer and if he does it too many times, he can fall under investigation for being a pill mill.
The government feels it's best for 100 people to scream in agony than two abuse the drugs and one get hooked.

I hope I never have another kidney stone.

The way new regulations are being churned out, you might go into the ER with a limb hanging off and discover how they did surgery during the civil war because Congress has decided using any pain killers feed the drug cartels and all Dr.s haven't the brains to know how to dispense them.

Here is my bladder stone that I had removed in February:

It didn't hurt at all (I'm a quadriplegic), but caused nasty infections.

I had Kidney stones while I was eight months pregnant. In the hospital one week for one on one side and the next week one on the other. Good times.
If I had to put a positive spin on it, I lost the extra baby weight before I even had the baby. I could barely eat at all. What a nightmare!