What does kidney stones feel like
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I woke Saturday and laying down have agonising pain in my right kidney area,
When vertical the pain subsides and varies from discomfort to non existent except if I breathe heavily,
running my hands over my tummy & side I feel nothing and only slight discomfort like a bruise when feeling my side & back
I saw a practisioning nurse on Saturday afternoon in the hospital walk in facility and they confirmed its not kidney infection and poked and prodded me … ultimately the nurse recommended co-codimal painkillers and to return Monday if still in pain,
Well it's not got better but I'm manic at work Monday & Tuesday and therefore don't want to waste 3~6 hours in hospital but I'm doing a 69 mile race on the weekend and could do with not being in discomfort trying to do that distance,
Does this sound like kidney stones or something else
edit …. I've had my appendix out when aged 11
When vertical the pain subsides and varies from discomfort to non existent except if I breathe heavily,
running my hands over my tummy & side I feel nothing and only slight discomfort like a bruise when feeling my side & back
I saw a practisioning nurse on Saturday afternoon in the hospital walk in facility and they confirmed its not kidney infection and poked and prodded me … ultimately the nurse recommended co-codimal painkillers and to return Monday if still in pain,
Well it's not got better but I'm manic at work Monday & Tuesday and therefore don't want to waste 3~6 hours in hospital but I'm doing a 69 mile race on the weekend and could do with not being in discomfort trying to do that distance,
Does this sound like kidney stones or something else
edit …. I've had my appendix out when aged 11
It is very painful, like someone is putting a knife through your kidney. My sister confirmed it is more painful than childbirth. I had to call an ambulance as I was in so much pain and they administered gas and air to ease it. It obviously isn’t normal so ignore work and get it checked out.
If anything like gall bladder stones, fking excruciating.
A episode would come on leaving me reeling in foetal position.
If i can recall correctly, the pain was like being stabbed repeatedly inbetween breathing and pain killers were ineffective.
Glad i had the barstewards out soon as the doctor confirmed with an ultrasound that they were gall stones.
A episode would come on leaving me reeling in foetal position.
If i can recall correctly, the pain was like being stabbed repeatedly inbetween breathing and pain killers were ineffective.
Glad i had the barstewards out soon as the doctor confirmed with an ultrasound that they were gall stones.
The early signs of kidney stones starts as a dull ache in the lower back area along with the constant urge to pee.
As the stone starts to move and make its way out it is excruciatingly painful.
I had them once, started with the early signs as above and my GP booked me in for X-rays, however, before that happened I started to pass a stone and went to A&E, my urine sample was like Ribena!
I eventually passed that one and then ended up having a scan where an even bigger 12mm stone was detected. Had something called lithotripsy to try and break it down using ultrasound.
About a week later I awoke early and had to dial 999 as the pain was so intense, got rushed in and this time the stone fragment (later found to be a 7mm fragment) lodged between the kidney and the bladder, I think they said typically that pipe is around 1mm - 3mm diameter, was not very well at all for a few hours...
Eventually it passed on its own but I was borderline being prepped for emergency surgery.
That was a long time ago and not had any since, all rather unpleasant.
So, as per my first line, if you’ve had an urge to pee and not pass anything, and a fairly constant dull ache then it could be kidney stones, when it moves, you’ll know about it, I’ve never experienced pain like it before or since and I was diagnosed with some kind of complex regional pain syndrome affecting my legs (now thankfully subsided) and was on stupid amounts of morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl, but it was nothing like kidney stones!
Stefan
As the stone starts to move and make its way out it is excruciatingly painful.
I had them once, started with the early signs as above and my GP booked me in for X-rays, however, before that happened I started to pass a stone and went to A&E, my urine sample was like Ribena!
I eventually passed that one and then ended up having a scan where an even bigger 12mm stone was detected. Had something called lithotripsy to try and break it down using ultrasound.
About a week later I awoke early and had to dial 999 as the pain was so intense, got rushed in and this time the stone fragment (later found to be a 7mm fragment) lodged between the kidney and the bladder, I think they said typically that pipe is around 1mm - 3mm diameter, was not very well at all for a few hours...
Eventually it passed on its own but I was borderline being prepped for emergency surgery.
That was a long time ago and not had any since, all rather unpleasant.
So, as per my first line, if you’ve had an urge to pee and not pass anything, and a fairly constant dull ache then it could be kidney stones, when it moves, you’ll know about it, I’ve never experienced pain like it before or since and I was diagnosed with some kind of complex regional pain syndrome affecting my legs (now thankfully subsided) and was on stupid amounts of morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl, but it was nothing like kidney stones!
Stefan
alfie2244 said:
Nearest a man can get to experiencing the pain of childbirth I was told by the nurse when I had one............if men had the babies there wouldn't be many of us on the planet IMO 
eta did she check for blood traces in wee? mine did.
I don't believe all this about child birth - wife has had 3 children and none were that painful she said. No pain control. She has a gall stone and has said that is worse then having children. So I think its a nurse thing to put men in their place.eta did she check for blood traces in wee? mine did.
Edited by alfie2244 on Sunday 9th June 23:12
I usually get one every year. Thankfully they’ve always been fairly small and have always passed on their own but the process is always grim.
Like what’s said above mine starts off with lower back ache for a few days. This then usually turns into a groin ache and testicle ache which again last a few days. Then finally a day before it passes my urethra starts to sting and feel itchy. Once this passes I tend to forget about it being on its way and then bang it pings out before I’ve even got time to think.
I passed two last week but was actually in hospital anyway as an inpatient. I had horrific back pain like I’d never felt before and thought it was muscular but blood results showed my kidneys were in a bad way and I was severely dehydrated. Got pumped full of IV fluids, plenty of codeine and lidocaine patches on my back and it seems to have done the trick as the results improved.
Like what’s said above mine starts off with lower back ache for a few days. This then usually turns into a groin ache and testicle ache which again last a few days. Then finally a day before it passes my urethra starts to sting and feel itchy. Once this passes I tend to forget about it being on its way and then bang it pings out before I’ve even got time to think.
I passed two last week but was actually in hospital anyway as an inpatient. I had horrific back pain like I’d never felt before and thought it was muscular but blood results showed my kidneys were in a bad way and I was severely dehydrated. Got pumped full of IV fluids, plenty of codeine and lidocaine patches on my back and it seems to have done the trick as the results improved.
This is my reply from 2015 when I had an 11mm stone wedged between kidney and bladder.
Yes it did smart a little....
“My thread has arrived....
Upto the 23rd June I was cycling c75 miles a week.
On the 24th June I started getting kidney pain during the morning, by lunchtime I was vomiting and the pain was getting worse. My next door neighbour who is a practising nurse thought it was appendicitis, and ran me to A&E.
I was wheeled in, in a wheelchair as I was unable to walk. More vomiting, and I had a diagnosis of a water infection and was prescribed anti biotics and Co-codamol.
The pain never went away, constant 24/7, it affected my appetite and I didn't eat for 9 days. I lost 8 kg in this time.
After a week I revisited my GP who decided it was a kidney stone and arranged a CT scan.
The following week the pain disapated, and my appetite returned, fortunately as I was then away for a week after in Ibiza.
I had my CT scan on my return and the GP called me to inform me I had an 11mm stone lodged in my ureter (the tube that links the kidney to the bladder).
The consultant Urologist called me the following evening an stated it needed urgent treatment due to the risk to my kidney function. I was booked into his clinic the following Monday, where I was told I would need two operations to resolve the issue.
Two days later I went in to have a stent fitted under GA, and told not to lift anything heavy or do any exercise.
Six weeks later I returned to have the stone blasted with a laser and this time to have a temporary threaded stent fitted again under GA.
They access the kidney from the normal route out, there are some rather unpleasant side effects with the surgery, peeing rose wine is the least worst side effect!
Three days later the temporary stent was removed, a gentle pull on the thread by the nurse pulled a foot long length of tube from my gentlemen's sausage.
I go back next month, to get the results of the stone analysis and advise on any dietary changes needed.”
Self inflicted, I didn’t drink enough liquids....
Yes it did smart a little....
“My thread has arrived....
Upto the 23rd June I was cycling c75 miles a week.
On the 24th June I started getting kidney pain during the morning, by lunchtime I was vomiting and the pain was getting worse. My next door neighbour who is a practising nurse thought it was appendicitis, and ran me to A&E.
I was wheeled in, in a wheelchair as I was unable to walk. More vomiting, and I had a diagnosis of a water infection and was prescribed anti biotics and Co-codamol.
The pain never went away, constant 24/7, it affected my appetite and I didn't eat for 9 days. I lost 8 kg in this time.
After a week I revisited my GP who decided it was a kidney stone and arranged a CT scan.
The following week the pain disapated, and my appetite returned, fortunately as I was then away for a week after in Ibiza.
I had my CT scan on my return and the GP called me to inform me I had an 11mm stone lodged in my ureter (the tube that links the kidney to the bladder).
The consultant Urologist called me the following evening an stated it needed urgent treatment due to the risk to my kidney function. I was booked into his clinic the following Monday, where I was told I would need two operations to resolve the issue.
Two days later I went in to have a stent fitted under GA, and told not to lift anything heavy or do any exercise.
Six weeks later I returned to have the stone blasted with a laser and this time to have a temporary threaded stent fitted again under GA.
They access the kidney from the normal route out, there are some rather unpleasant side effects with the surgery, peeing rose wine is the least worst side effect!
Three days later the temporary stent was removed, a gentle pull on the thread by the nurse pulled a foot long length of tube from my gentlemen's sausage.
I go back next month, to get the results of the stone analysis and advise on any dietary changes needed.”
Self inflicted, I didn’t drink enough liquids....
Worst pain I've ever felt.
When mine started it was eased slight by being up and walking around.
Three hoursater I couldn't get up and was pissing more blood than water.
Morphine to calm me down.
They 'cured' me by sticking a pipe up my cock. And left it there for ten days.
I really would prefer not to get them again.
When mine started it was eased slight by being up and walking around.
Three hoursater I couldn't get up and was pissing more blood than water.
Morphine to calm me down.
They 'cured' me by sticking a pipe up my cock. And left it there for ten days.
I really would prefer not to get them again.
I had one recently, as others have said it is the most pain I have ever experienced.
It started as a dull ache like I had eaten something dodgy but progressively got worse. Luckily I had someone with me who called 111, there were constant updates of the pain on a scale of 1-10. I think 7 got the ambulance on the way.
Entonox is good stuff but don't breath too quick! Then it was morphine in the ambulance and the evening in A&E, discharged at 2am with a pack of co-codamol after not diagnosing anything.
After getting home, car was recovered and journey was absolute agony.. Ended up calling 111 myself and ended up in hospital for the second time, after being poked by a surgeon the conclusion was it didn't feel like an appendicitus, eventually a CT scan showed the kidney stone. Anyway spent a week in hospital, plenty of drugs for the pain, discharged with some pain relief and stuff to widen the tubes to let the stone move which wasn't much fun either.
If you know you are going into hospital, take a bag with all the stuff you need as if staying away from home, the hospital provides medical care but not personal care.
It started as a dull ache like I had eaten something dodgy but progressively got worse. Luckily I had someone with me who called 111, there were constant updates of the pain on a scale of 1-10. I think 7 got the ambulance on the way.
Entonox is good stuff but don't breath too quick! Then it was morphine in the ambulance and the evening in A&E, discharged at 2am with a pack of co-codamol after not diagnosing anything.
After getting home, car was recovered and journey was absolute agony.. Ended up calling 111 myself and ended up in hospital for the second time, after being poked by a surgeon the conclusion was it didn't feel like an appendicitus, eventually a CT scan showed the kidney stone. Anyway spent a week in hospital, plenty of drugs for the pain, discharged with some pain relief and stuff to widen the tubes to let the stone move which wasn't much fun either.
If you know you are going into hospital, take a bag with all the stuff you need as if staying away from home, the hospital provides medical care but not personal care.
I feel extremely sorry for anyone who has the misfortune of having one, I think kidney stones are crystallised urine, and they're like jagged rocky lumps, slowly scraping their way down the length of the tube from kidneys to bladder...
I was in hospital for an emergency appendectomy when I was 18 and after being in for a few days was woken up one night by the chap in the bed opposite screaming. SCREAMING like a soul in torment. I crapped myself not knowing what was going on and it was scary.
A load of nurses came rushing out, guy kept on screaming. Some time later when the guy was still at it, I snagged a passing nurse and asked why they didn't give him something for the pain. She replied that they had given him everything they could including morphine and could do no more. He screamed all night.
That was really quite sobering.
I really really hope I never get one.
I was in hospital for an emergency appendectomy when I was 18 and after being in for a few days was woken up one night by the chap in the bed opposite screaming. SCREAMING like a soul in torment. I crapped myself not knowing what was going on and it was scary.
A load of nurses came rushing out, guy kept on screaming. Some time later when the guy was still at it, I snagged a passing nurse and asked why they didn't give him something for the pain. She replied that they had given him everything they could including morphine and could do no more. He screamed all night.
That was really quite sobering.
I really really hope I never get one.
I had one early last year. It was the most excruciatingly painful thing I have ever experienced. As mentioned above it starts off with a lower back ache then progressively gets worse and worse. I ended up throwing because of the pain. Enternox helped for a while but eventually stopped working. Morphine got rid of the pain. Got sent to hospital for CT scan and sent home with co-codamol and diclofenac sodium. In the end it took a week to pass it. I made changed to my lifestyle/diet after that as I never want to feel that level of pain ever again. The nurse said he'd had women say they'd rather give birth again than have another kidney stone.
Just as a thread closure....
Pain has subsided but I've been suffering various other issues
Have a ultrasound scan for 3 weeks ….Yes I know
I've had 2 blood tests and have low (cant remember if red blood cells or iron)
I'm waiting for an appointment to have (not sure what its medically called) but an endoscope passed down my throat and up my ……., Well I hope the Doc does it in that order
Being ill doesn't do dignity
Pain has subsided but I've been suffering various other issues
Have a ultrasound scan for 3 weeks ….Yes I know
I've had 2 blood tests and have low (cant remember if red blood cells or iron)
I'm waiting for an appointment to have (not sure what its medically called) but an endoscope passed down my throat and up my ……., Well I hope the Doc does it in that order
Being ill doesn't do dignity
I’ve had them twice about 18months apart in the same kidney.
First time I ended up on a customers kitchen floor, but managed to drive the 3 miles home where wife called an ambulance - pain was immense, I was sweating profusely and she thought I was having a coronary.
Morphine and a bit of gas saw me to the hospital, then more morphine and gas, then some more and then a scan that showed the stone was wedged in the top of my piss tube...
Flushed me through a few times and it disappeared.
The next one I knew what was happening, so went to A&E.
After going through all the above again, I had to piss into a sieve and they found that one...
First time I ended up on a customers kitchen floor, but managed to drive the 3 miles home where wife called an ambulance - pain was immense, I was sweating profusely and she thought I was having a coronary.
Morphine and a bit of gas saw me to the hospital, then more morphine and gas, then some more and then a scan that showed the stone was wedged in the top of my piss tube...
Flushed me through a few times and it disappeared.
The next one I knew what was happening, so went to A&E.
After going through all the above again, I had to piss into a sieve and they found that one...
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