Years ago when I use to drive a taxi in New York city I was driving down by the West Village when this guy came running out doubled over wearing only his underwear! and he threw $20 bucks at me and told me to take him to the hospital. He said he had kidney stones, and I never seen a guy act in so much pain in my life, it was just like he got shot in the gut. The whole way there screaming and yelling and I had to help, basically carry him into the emergency room and tell the nurse what was going on as he couldn’t speak. What causes that pain, is it the stones try to pass through the urethra? Damn, they must be hell. That was crazy, one of the many bizarre stories from my taxi days. I actually went through red lights for the guy (carefully) because I figured if a cop pulled me over he would see it was a medical emergency.
Even my dad told me he'd almost rather die than go through it again... and this guy has a pain threshold like no other, I swear he's a machine
“What causes that pain, is it the stones try to pass through the urethra?”
I’ve heard that is the easy part. Passing from the kidney to the bladder is what hurts.