Yes, only once, and it must have been too small to be seen because the doc I rushed to as the pain grew steadily worse over a couple hours, didn’t believe me. He thought I was a drug addict. It was a horrible experience.
While I was in his office, where he DID give me a shot of morphine but then was audible as he told others he thought I was a drug addict begging for a shot, which I was NOT (I didn’t even want a shot or rather was scared to get one as I was alone and didn’t know how drugged I would be). My husband came and explained things to the doctor and he softened a little.
That pain is just creepy. It’s like this hot pain that gets slowly worse and worse in the side of your back. It’s not like any other kind of pain. I could not sit in the waiting room but had to PACE. I did not care about embarrassment; it just went beyond that. My friend had it too once, again too small to be seen but then after it passed there was some “scraping” visible on her urethra so they dx’ed it after the fact. I figured mine was similar.
I spoke to a lot of people who had had one, and most of them had been taking oral calcium supplements, as had I for the first time in my life, so I immediately stopped taking them. Not medically sure there was a connection, but that was the ONLY time I’d ever taken those chewable calcium tablets, and I never had a kidney stone again - it was about 6 years ago.
The first stone I had started moving as I was walking down a flight of stairs...I ended up at the bottom of the stairs and did not remember how I got their. That first one took three months to pass and was a modest 3.5mm. I then passed a 5mm stone and then had a 6.5mm one “retrieved”...we won't go into details but I decided after the procedure that all future stones will come out on their own. Since then I have passed a 8.5mm, 9mm, and a 5mm. Based on how this one feels I am guessing it is in the 5-6mm range. I tend to get one every two years...this one is over three years since my last one so maybe it is an improvement.
For me, most of the stones take around two months to pass, and since I don't take pain medications (except an occasional Tylenol) I can normally tell how things are progressing by how my body is reacting. But when the stone is actively moving I too have to PACE...no position is available to get comfortable.