Kidney stones

[holyzombiejesus]

I'd been having this weird thing where I'd go to the toilet and then need another piss about 90 seconds later but with nothing ready to come out. This happened about once a week and lasted for a couple of hours the first time and increased each week until last week (week 4) when it lasted about a day and a half. Really uncomfortable but no actual pain. This Saturday I felt it when I woke up but when I went for the second 'empty' piss, I thought I'd ruptured my spleen or something. Felt like a really really painful stitch deep inside me, like deeper than muscle. The doctor told me that the stone is 3 to 4 mm and has now left my kidney tubes and is at the start of it's journey down my piss pipes. Is that going to be even more painful? Felt a little discomfort since the hospital but nothing remotely comparable to Saturday morning.

[Glebe]

Hope you're feeling better.

[Buelligan]

Not a doctor, afraid I don't know, only remember my mate's stone birth, he did go into hospital for that but I think, didn't need any kind of intervention (apart from painkillers).  From memory, the initial bit was the worst.  Hope you soon have a bouncing stone to show off! xxx

[Thomas]

I knew someone who had a kidney stone once, and when they broke it open there was a fossilised ammonite inside.