Not a kidney stone, but had my gallbladder removed yesterday due to a gallbladder stone. The pain!
Great! As if I don’t have enough to worry about. So now it’s Chinese world domination, collapse of the global financial systems, meteorites, Zombie apocalypse, and…Kidney Stones.
Sounds horrible, you have my sympathy.
Lots of input here. Thanks.
So doc says at a 5cm stone, I’ll pass it with a 93% likelihood. Have been referred to a specialist. Today is better. Peeing more normally and the xray showed it was about to head into the bladder where it can exit. I am still in pain, but medicated and not near as bad now.
Good to hear rusty Joe!
I also had a gall bladder stone that was the size of a ping pong ball, but it wasnt quite as painful as the tiny kidney stone. It was removed (as well as the gall bladder itself) with surgery. I wish I would been able to keep the stone as a reminder to lay off the soda.
I’ve had 2 kidney stones. Both were too big to pass, so I’ve had lithotripsy twice. My second one was 8x10mm. After the first one, the PA told me to drink 2 liters of water every day, so I did. 10 years later, I was back at the ER for drugs.
After the second one, they did some tests and decided I had oxalate kidney stones, and now I drink 2 liters of water, and take calcium citrate supplements. It’s only been 3 years since my second stone, so, hopefully the supplements will prevent any more.
Some women who have delivered babies without any pain meds have said that kidney stone pain is considerably worse. I believe them.
I could imagine poor Hank Hill with his narrow urethra trying to pass a golfball-sized kidney stone…
“Bobby! Get the pro-pane!”
Glad to hear that it should pass, and also very happy to hear you got pain meds
Golf balls are 4.268 cm in diameter, there is no way you are passing a 5cm stone without lithotripsy.
I had a “stack of stones” in my left ureter that added up to 1.5 cm and they passed individually over 24-48 hours or so, but none of mine were more than 2-4 mm, were all irregularly shaped and had the texture of pumice. Fun times.
I wish you the best, I would not want anyone to have kidney/bladder stones. Those tubes were not designed to stretch easily.
Kidney stones look painful.
If you Google pictures of them, there are pictures of kidney stones over 5cm. They aren’t round though. They are weird shapes with irregular spikey protrusions all over them.
It looks like passing one would feel like urinating a gerbil-sized porcupine. OUCH!!! 
Yeah, basically mineral growths. Nasty stuff.
But I’m told gallbladder pain is even worse!
Hang in there Joe,
All the Best,
Jeff
I’ve had both, but suprisingly the kidney stone was worse for me. Of course the gall bladder stone, being the aize of a ping pong ball, had to be removed via surgery and i was out for that haha.
Let us know how it turns out!
It’s not just passing them that’s painful (I’ve never passed one). When they move in the kidney and cause blockage, that causes incredible pain and discomfort. I went to bed one night thinking I might be coming down with a cold, and woke up with so much pain, I could barely move. The nausea was terrible. I heaved so hard I broke blood vessels in my face.
I’m sure he means mm and its just a metric unfamiliarity issue.
5 cm or even larger kidney stones actually exist. If you Google it, you can see lots of photos of them, some next to rulers.
Yes they do, the guinness book of records one is something like coconut size iirc.
But at that size you go back to my previous post, dude then needs surgery.
I can’t find pics of some of the bizarre ones that came through the lab but once in awhile something really amazing would show up. And if you’ve ever seen the stones that dogs and cats get…ouch, those look even worse, hurts to even think about.
Correct.
Glad to hear you don’t need surgery and hope it passes soon and quickly and with as little pain as possible 
“Yikes!”
<<< runs for a bottle of water >>>
I had it twice… Both with me ending up in ER…
First was in the middle of the night… Excruciating pain and I tried to pee and saw it was dark brownish coloured… Got a shock as I’ve never encountered it before…and the pain… Nothing I’ve ever encountered before… I was just curled up on the floor in a ball before calling my wife who got help from my brother-in-law staying nearby to drive me to the hospital.
It only got better after they jabbed me wih painkillers at the ER… Had to wait till morning before the procedure(using ultrasonic waves to break it up) was done… Had to stay a nite in the hospital and was peeing blood coloured urine for 2 days after that.
Second instance happened on the way to work… Same thing …back to ER… But this time they can’t blast it out due to the location… In the end, a different procedure where they insert a device through the pee hole of my penis to reach the stone and break it up … The post recovery for this is WORSE than the first… I still get the chills recalling the incident….
Take care…drink more water…