I had a kidney stone attack just one month ago. Thought it was gas at first. Put up with it for a couple days, then got up one night, couldn’t sleep with the pain. Went to the bathroom, enormous pain - on a scale of 1 to 10 that was close to 11. Urine was the color of cranberry juice. Went to the ER. Turns out I’d just passed it. Good thing too, because my left kidney had failed. They admitted me.
Spent the next couple of days inpatient, as they kept an eye on my creatinine levels (kidney function). Kept rising so they dismissed me. Oh, no ObamaCare - not yet anyway.
Can’t say which was worse, having the stone or passing it.
Whoops! Creatinine kept going DOWN. That’s where it was supposed to go...
Isn’t there a newer like hypersonic cavitation crusher thingy that uses sound waves to pulverize them down to nothing?
I had a kidney stone once, and I likened it to this:
I used to be a hockey goalie. There were plenty of painful aspects to it, but the worst one ever that made me break out in a cold sweat in pain was taking a blistering slapshot to the big-toe side of my goalie skate.
(More painful than being hit in the bards, but far more bearable, because...it ain’t your bards!)
Anyway, that pain of being hit in the toe like that was similar to what I felt in my back when I passed that kidney stone.
Again, it war far more bearable in my toe, because...it was my toe. I knew what it was.
When it was inside me, it was far more disturbing.