Spent Saturday night Sunday morning in an ER with a lady in excruciating pain from one. I knew she was in trouble because she never complains.
I know a woman who had a kidney stone. She didn’t know what it was and thought she was dying. She asked the very young EMT in the ambulance if she was dying. She said he looked about 15 y.o. He looked at her and said, “We’re not allowed to answer questions like that.” She was sure then that she was dying.
At the hospital they told her she had a kidney stone and she was passing it. Unfortunately the one they saw on the X-ray was the second one. She had that one two weeks late.