The first few times I had them, the hospital would not give me pain medication until they had done a urinalysis.
The last time I was taken to a small hospital in Alabama. When I told the Dr. I had had them many times before and that I knew what it was, he went ahead and gave me pain meidcation before doing all the tests.
The pain meds help but by no means eliminate the pain.
“The pain meds help but by no means eliminate the pain.”
That was exactly what I experienced. The morphine (?) made it easier, almost to the point I didn’t care, but it still hurt. A lot. Weird.