Please, please, please take care of your body. Eat healthy food! Trust me, if you get kidney stones, it's like child birth. I've been having kidney stones for months.
Notes on what to expect with Kidney stones, based off of my first passing of one:
For a long time, you may feel a tightness in your right side (flank area, bottom right of your stomach). It may be really subtle, just like a mild sensation of someone lightly pressing on that area.
The passing of a kidney stone goes through stages. The most painful of these stages is when the stone passes from your kidney into your ureter tube…this passage can feel like someone is repeatedly stabbing you in the side, or that a knife is slowly running through your intestines. This is when you will REALLY feel the pain in your back. Later stages bring pain more to the front of your body. This pain, for me, lasted about 30-45 minutes. Then, it just randomly vanished…part of the discomfort comes from your body having contractions trying to move the stone along. Another portion of the pain comes from the fact that these stones are very hard and can be jagged.
The doctors may try to prescribe you opiates…they are worthless…they will make you feel ****** up in a bad way. Don’t take them. Ibuprofen can help. So can weed.
Also, they will prescribe you Rapiflow. Who knows how much this helps. I will say that I took one rapiflow right before my stone finally passed.
Once the stone is in your ureter tube you will feel a different pain. The pain will be felt much more now on the front of your body, between your lower right stomach to your bladder area. The stone can stay here for months. In my case, it was in this stage for about 6-7 weeks.
When the stone moves into your bladder, you will notice that the majority of the discomfort is in your bladder (right above your **** in the front), especially towards the end of your pee stream. The pain will last throughout going pee, and a maybe for a few minutes after you urinate, but will then fade for the most part until you urinate again. My kidney stone was in the stage for about a week.
As the stone passes out of your bladder into your penis shaft, you will begin to feel pain in your actual penis. The stone, once in your penis, will hurt. You will have the same pain as the bladder stage, but now much more in your penis itself, and when the stone is JUST about to pass, the pain will remain for a long time in your penis. This is because the stone is stuck in your actual penis. If the stone rotates a bit at this stage, you can get a super quick, extremely sharp “SHOCK” type pain in your penis. It’s a nasty little pain.
At this stage, I chugged water, lots of water and apple cider vinegar. Then the stone passed. During this urination, I really tried to ‘push’ the stone out, and out it came. It felt just like you’d imagine a small rock would feel like coming out of your penis. It was like throwing up, out of my penis.
I scooped the stone out of the toilet. Nasty little bugger. I feel better, but there was still a little bit of burning after I finished peeing the first pee after passing the stone. I imagine I have some irritation in there due to the stones passing, but that this will finally heal up soon.
A few things: you will get blood in your urine from time to time throughout the passing of a stone, in all of its stages. This will usually look like a slightly orange, or slightly rosey colored urine.
