I've got a kidney stone. What should I expect?

[pkbites]

Mine was 11mm, about the size of a 45 caliber bullet!

From another thread:

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It doesn’t go anywhere. I could urinate but barely. The stone is stuck. Pain form the back down into the scotum is indescribable!!!

They put a stent up you which is the length and circumference of a drinking straw with a loop at the end slightly larger than a nickel with a hole in the middle. Looks vaugly like that wand kids use to blow bubbles.

That stent remains inside of you for about a week while you heal from it’s placement. During that time your bladder is in spasms 100% of the time. Feels like you have a very full bladder all the time.

After a week they use high energy shock waves to blast the stone. For a week after that you have to urinate into a strainer to collect the small pebbles that come out. They want to examine the pebbles to determine what material they are made out of. It hurts to urinate while those pebbles come out.

If any of this sounds completely unfun, you haven’t heard anything yet:

When they remove the stent you are awake, unlike when they put it in. They put a metal cage thingy over your junk, inject some clear numbing gel into you (it doesn’t numb dick, quite litterally!!!) and the doctor fishes around inside you with an apparatus that looks very much like the claw game at an arcade. When the doc pulls it out it hurts like a mother fugger and it’s all bloody and goopy and it’s reminiscent of when they removed the bug from Neo in The Matrix. You’re screaming in pain while they pull this disgusting mess out of your prick!!!

Nice sight, huh? Go to bed now, sweet dreams.

Kidney stones are proof that gawd hates us and wants us to be miserable!