Naaah. Just think for a moment how recently I’ve seen my urologist and whether I should make an appointment if it’s been a while.
I’ve had13 kidney stones over the past 14 years. They all have been no larger than 4 mm and I’ve passed each one without medical assistance, though the last one took over a month to pass. It would move and be painful for a few hours, then stop, and I would go for days before feeling it move again. Overall it made me feel incredibly crappy. I passed that last one when on spring break and not only felt it come out, but saw it come out.
Mine are the calcium oxalate stones. My kidney specialist basically said to drink more fluids and stay away from high oxalate foods (wouldn’t you know, he didn’t give me a list of foods to avoid. Go figure).
One time I went into the ER for a kidney stone on my right flank and they gave me fentanyl. Whoooo boy, that was good stuff. Made me incredibly loopy, but that pain stopped right there.
I’ve had a few, including one with complete blockage. I wouldn’t quite say “childbirth” but it’s up there in terms of pain.
Please do see a urologist. You’ll get an idea of what you need to do with this stone and what else might be going on. For reference, my husband has had 2 now that made it into his bladder. The first stayed there and got bigger and bigger. They finally had to break it apart and remove the pieces. The second blocked urine flow. My husband got stuck with a catheter until they could schedule the procedure to remove it. Of note, the stone did not push back into the bladder. They had to push the catheter past it, pushing the stone into the wall of the ureter. Husband was not happy.
Note: do not attempt to remove the stone yourself (not that I think you would) my husband tried with some hemostats. He fainted from the pain and I found him on the bathroom floor, incoherent.
Take a look around a health food store or co-op. Basically you have to avoid all of that. It’s bologna on Wonderbread with Miracle Whip for you!
I also had a stone on Xmas eve back in 2007 and joked that Santa brought me a stone instead of coal. Took a week to pass. I drove myself to the ER and first they gave me CT scan, and then they gave me a strainer and said “Look for diamonds… you’ll understand when you get the bill.”
I’ve passed maybe a half dozen, starting back in the mid-90s when I was still living in France, including one that required lithotripsy and a two-day hospital stay. That one, and the first, were the worst; that first one took several months to pass, so I’d have a couple days of excruciating, wall-pounding pain, maybe a week of dull, on and off aching, then repeat. This was during about a year and a half period where I had kidney stones, gout, and impacted wisdom teeth. The stones were definitely the most painful of that litany of misery.
Mine, like many others, were calcium oxalate and may have been triggered by drinking too much tea made with (highly calcified) Paris water.
OK, now there’s an image that going to haunt me for a while.
In early November 2020, I had an incident which my GP and I thought was a kidney stone passing. It was quite painful, but not excruciating. After that, nothing, and I pretty much forgot about it. Yesterday, another pain episode in the place that WebMD strongly suggests is the location of kidney stone pain. That’s gone now, too.
I guess I’ll have to consult a urologist if this goes on. In the meantime, I looked online for what I could do about it. Lots of water, of course. Then a long list of oxalate-rich food to avoid. As mentioned upthread, this list contains lots of healthy things that I love.
On the list: tea, especially black tea. I’ve had to give up coffee because it gave me nighttime headaches, even decaf coffee. I switched to black tea a couple of years ago, and even of that, I drink mostly decaf. But I drink a big strong mug of it.
But then I read other sites that say tea isn’t a problem. So what’s the deal? Is tea a no-no?
There isn’t an emoji that does this level of terror justice. I have no less than 4 different sizes of hemostats sitting right here in my pencil cup. ( VERY useful when doing small-gauge soldering )
I can not even envision doing this to myself. To be a bit raw here, using 2 Fleet enemas in one day was about as discomforting a thing as I wanted to deal with in all of this. With the lower abdominal pain was lack of bowel action the likes of which I’ve never experienced, even when taking narcotics post-op.
Your husband is a brave man.
In OTHER news, I had no pain when I returned home from the ER. Had some moderate pain- close to what I’d had on Christmas day evening- the following day. A Saturday, I believe. Since then? Zero pain, zero indication of having passed it. I stopped using the screen about a week ago. I suppose I should not give that up- but what the hell do I do when I’m on a job, using a honeywagon and having to jam the white plastic screen into my winter coat pocket between visits to the loo ???
No, her husband is a STUPID man. 
(So, did he succeed in getting it out? Did you suggest that the next time he tried something, you’d bring out the meat cleaver and use it on him?).
I’ve thankfully never experienced a kidney stone myself, and I’m cringing and whimpering in sympathy for all of you who have. My late BIL had (among many other things) quite a lot of them - he spent a lot of time peeing through a tea strainer. I too have heard they are worse than childbirth. Though I had a gallbladder attack - and while “somewhat uncomfortable” (meaning, I was thinking about how to get to the ER through 2 feet of snow on unplowed roads), childbirth was quite a bit worse due to medical mismanagement.
On the gut slowdown: If you have not already done so, get yourself some Miralax, or Metamucil, or maybe Colace (stool softener), or some combination thereof. After my gallbladder surgery, between the narcotics and the “rummaging” my innards had just undergone, the gut said “Oh HELL no” and went on strike for 4 days.
A longtime friend is a tattoo artist. Roughly 25 years ago he worked in a shop that also employed a piercer, who he wanted to ask out, but he was shy. Not too shy to ask her about a Prince Albert piercing, which he wanted to do to himself since having her handle his penis was beyond the pale.
She explained the technique. He went into the bathroom with the equipment he needed. After 30 minutes the other employees all assumed he’d backed out, when there was a loud moan/scream, then quiet. Five or ten minutes later he called out, “should there be a lot of bleeding?”.
The piercer told him it should abate with time and pressure, and it did.
The piercing healed, and he has it still. He and the piercer recently celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary. I performed the ceremony Halloween night in a cemetery.
Yes, he is a STUPID man. I was not pleased. He did it twice, the idiot. After the second time, I told him that I would call the ambulance if it happened again and he should STOP. He completely failed to do anything other than shoving it further in.
All’s well that ends well !!
I got dizzy reading this story. Great tale though.
Why on EARTH did he want ANYTHING sharp near his junk?
Just reading these tales makes me want to curl up in a ball and whimper.
BTW, I did not know what that specific piercing was, so I googled. it.
Initial pic is SFW, text and later drawings are not.
Prince Albert Piercing: 3 Types, Sexual Benefits, Risks, Care, More
I made the mistake of Googling it too.
Man.
Three kidney stone attacks over the past 5 years.
I mistook the first attack for a stomach bug which abruptly ended after about 3 hours. This was just a preview for the full-frontal assault late at night about ten days later. I ended up driving myself to the ER at 2:00 AM. I was doubled-over in pain, pale, sweaty, and shaking. I’d already vomited with pain and was going to do it several more times before daybreak.
They took me in, drew blood, gave me an IV and some non-narcotic pain relievers and anti-nausea medicine. CT scan confirmed a kidney stone. Got prescriptions for Flowmax and Tylenol 3. Visited a urologist a couple days later and was given a strainer to piss into until the stone popped out a few days later.
Had a small kidney stone this past year that passed without any drama. WOOHOO!
That second attack, though? Felt like a 5-hour extended-release kick in the balls. How I kept from passing out is a mystery to me. I’ve cut down on drinking tea and now drink more water and so far have been doing okay.
Kidney stones blow big time…
So. I jinxed myself.
This afternoon, I suddenly had a sharp pain in my back – midway down my back, towards the left side. I thought, “back spasm? Maybe even a kidney stone?” I got out a heating pad, put it on my back, and the pain subsided after about 20 minutes. Between that, and the fact that my urine wasn’t pink, I decided, “must have been a back spasm.”
This evening, it hit again. And, this time, I had the pink urine, too. Same as this afternoon, it only hurt for about 15 minutes or so. I’m drinking much water now, and hoping that it keeps moving along its merry way, because this is not the sort of time to try to go to the ER. 
kenobi_65:
“. . . because this is not the sort of time to try to go to the ER.”
Amen to that. I had another episode yesterday, this time on the other side, and it followed a similar MO: pain in my flank that came and went, to be followed by pain in my lower abdomen on the same side that lasted about five or ten minutes. Now all is well.
Damn. I’m calling the urologist to make an appointment. I don’t want it to get to emergency room status.