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I had a 12mm stone. I didn't even know I had it until I had a CT scan for an injury I had. That stone was completely asympomatic until it was busted up with lithotripsy. All the rubble flushed into my ureter at once and clogged it creating a "stone strasse" (stone street) or some damned thing. That's when the pain hit. I characterize it like this:

Imagine having a rusty, jagged, red-hot machette pushed through you then having it slowly saw down toward your groin, while simultaneously getting kicked in the balls with every beat of your heart.

I was unaware just how far I could vomit until that hit. Hint: along damned way.

I got flomax and pain meds. It took exactly 30 days for it to pass. The day all that [bleep] dropped into my bladdewr, I was sitting on couch. Suddenly, it felt like someone jammed a lit sparkler into the tip of my dick. It hurt fort about 10 seconds. Then I had to piss something fierce. I grabbed my strainer and it sounded like I was dropping gravel into it.

My largest fragment was 5mm. I had multiple 4mm fragments, many more 3mm fragments, and a ton of sand.

And the stones aren't smooth. They are jagged as hell. And they really are stone.

During my initial hospital visit, my nurse told me she passed a 7mm stone, and it hurt worse than giving birth to a 7.5lb baby with no drugs.

I ruptured my L4-L5 and L5-S1 discs and got severe sciatica as a result. Had to have surgery. Thought that was the worse pain I could ever have. Tunred out, that was a walk in the park compared to the kidney stone.

So, cheers to all the fellow Kidney Stone Survivors out there.

What causes them?

Who else has the pleasure of having them? Trying to pass one now,, they rough