Yes. There are definitely signs that you know they are coming on.

 

The best way I can explain it is this.

You start to feel a very dull (not painful) cramping feeling in your lower back to the side depending on which kidney. This doesn't alarm a lot of people because it doesn't really hurt per say.

 

The feeling comes and goes (as the stone moves ) and then it will slowly become more and more noticeable and then it goes from a cramping feeling to a steady pain that continues to increase. This is when the stone starts to move from the kidney.

 

If you are lucky you will feel the cramping part early and you will usually have several hours before it becomes the pain you are hearing about. It starts just as an uncomfortable feeling where you can't get comfortable. Get to the hospital before the all out pain hits because when it comes on it comes fast and before you know it you are laid out in the fetal position in the floor writhing in pain.

 

Good explanation. The bolded....FOR SURE!!!

 

I keep asking myself the same question. No idea.

 

 

 

Please tell me those aren't actual pictures.

 

This is a blown up image of the surface of a 3mm stone, yeah the one STILL inside of me.

 

 

Now you can imagine the pain.:cry:

Does the pain immediately relinquish or are you sore for several days once it passes?

Does the pain immediately relinquish or are you sore for several days once it passes?

 

It's like it never happened. :dancingpa

Do you have any names picked out Lawnboy?

I bet when you pass it, you won't be calling it "Daddy's Little Girl".

Do you have any names picked out Lawnboy?

 

Spike comes to mind.

I bet when you pass it, you won't be calling it "Daddy's Little Girl".

 

:laugh: :thumb:

Does the pain immediately relinquish or are you sore for several days once it passes?

Yes, it also subsides once it moves into the bladder (then it's almost home)

Then once you pass it, you are good to go.

 

I can not speak for everyone that has had them, but the passing of the stone itself for me isn't as painful as one might think, maybe it's just me but it doesn't bother me that much the actual passing, it's before passing it that kills me.

Knocking on wood. I was told at 15 or 16 that I had cysts in my kidneys that would, in the words of Joe Walsh, turn to stone.

 

Well over 40 years later, hasn't happened yet.

Yes, it also subsides once it moves into the bladder (then it's almost home)

Then once you pass it, you are good to go.

 

I can not speak for everyone that has had them, but the passing of the stone itself for me isn't as painful as one might think, maybe it's just me but it doesn't bother me that much the actual passing, it's before passing it that kills me.

 

The pain is as the stone is moving from the kidney to the bladder. Especially when it is moving or is blocking urine flow. It can be bothersome to debilitating.

 

Just as bad for me is if it makes it to the end of the ureter and gets stuck. Little to no pain, but it irritates the urinary tract to the point that you always feel like you have to urinate. It causes ureter and bladder spasms that are just miserable. This is where products like Flomax can help.

 

Once it makes it to the bladder you are basically home free. You may get cut a bit as it exits, but that is minor compared to everything else you go through.

The pain is as the stone is moving from the kidney to the bladder. Especially when it is moving or is blocking urine flow. It can be bothersome to debilitating.

 

Just as bad for me is if it makes it to the end of the ureter and gets stuck. Little to no pain, but it irritates the urinary tract to the point that you always feel like you have to urinate. It causes ureter and bladder spasms that are just miserable. This is where products like Flomax can help.

 

Once it makes it to the bladder you are basically home free. You may get cut a bit as it exits, but that is minor compared to everything else you go through.

Yep!! The bolded is 110% accurate.

 

 

I will tell you the worst kidney stone story I had, well 2 quick stories.

 

First was the very first time I had kindey stones. I was in the military, stationed in South Korea. Coming home after a night of bar hopping and it was about 2am. I got to the main gate of the base when all of a sudden it hit and it hit hard. I was on the floor of the gate shack and they called for the ambulance. I was flown via helicopter straight to Seoul. I was in the hospital in Seoul for 8 days, had a total of 7 stones. The problem was no one notified my squadron where I was and 3 days into my hospital stay my commander shows up to visit me. He tells me that he was downstairs visiting another one of his men and was about to leave the hospital when one of the nurses asked him if he was going to visit me. He said he didn't even know I was in the hospital and they had me listed as AWOL lol. Needless to say he took care of it when he got back to base.

 

The worst experience was when I had a large stone and it was too large to pass on my own so the Dr's said they were going to have to do surgery, which was fine with me because I just wanted the dang thing gone.

 

I wake up after surgery and the first thing I see is a catheter....not good, didn't know about that. Then the Doc comes in and he asks how I'm feeling, I tell him I still have some pain but not so bad and thought I was just sore from the surgery was all. He then dropped the bombshell that they couldn't get to the stone, by the time they went in the stone moved and was now in the bladder. They then had to blast it with lasers into a bunch of smaller stones that took some time to pass. The removal of the catheter is something I never want to experience again. The wife was in the room when the nurse removed it and she said I turned 3 shades of white.

Had IV morphine for my first stone, it did the job.

 

The other two times I've visited the ER for a stone I got IV Toradol = awesome. You feel the burn as it goes in and then the pain disappears.

I get a serious case of the willies every time I read a descriptive post in this thread.

Had IV morphine for my first stone, it did the job.

 

The other two times I've visited the ER for a stone I got IV Toradol = awesome. You feel the burn as it goes in and then the pain disappears.

Morphine IV's have been the only thing that ever took the pain away, but I'm not a big fan of the feeling. But at the time I could care less what they gave me as long as it helped with the pain.

 

No one has talked about the blood in the urine which is a pretty good sign that you have a stone also.

 

just sayin :thumb:

Had IV morphine for my first stone, it did the job.

 

The other two times I've visited the ER for a stone I got IV Toradol = awesome. You feel the burn as it goes in and then the pain disappears.

 

Had both yesterday......THANK GOD, pain vanished in seconds.