Kidney stones...or most pain you've experienced?

...anyone else here ever get them?

Went home fine after work yesterday, an hour later was in pain, another hour and was doubled up on the floor in agony. Jesus Mary and Joseph, like nothing ever experienced before. Managed to find a doctor who tested urine sample and said it was a kidney stone, and gave me a couple of injections...anti spasm and painkilling. Anyway, by midnight they had kicked in and all seemed to settle down, and grand since. Wondering will I start into drink, after all might be back tonight or might never bother me again.

Or anyone experience anything else painful. Wife had gallstones around pregnancy, said it was just pure glassy pain.

Ruu

Yes, most intense pain I have ever had. I was rolling around on the floor with the pain, knocked me off my feet. I was on the cranberry juice for about 2 weeks and then one day felt like I pinch from the old chap when going to the loo and it was out. My wife had to get hers blasted to break it up, glad I was able to pass it. Tiny kidney stone made from calcium buildup.

January

Gallstones, actually thought I was dying.

Much worse than childbirth.

First time I had an abscess. Couple of days of agony.

...And Justice

6 smashed ribs and broken pelvis

MilesMorales1

Probably getting stabbed in the chest and tummy. Didn't hurt at first, it was weird, then the pain exploded, and ****.

TG1

Waiting for plates and screws to be put into my broken pelvis, the nurses had to role me every few hours to prevent pressure sores... Those few days have skewed my pain scale for ever more! Everything else is a 2 now!

mfceiling

Yep kidney stones here. Unbelievable pain...phenomenal pain. Bent over in the swift care clinic in Dundrum, unable to tell them what was wrong. Thankfully I passed them while high as a kite on some sort of painkiller that was stronger than morphine.
Wouldn't wish them on anyone.
OP...try and make sure you are near painkillers or a hospital incase they come back.

Dr.Robotnik

The day after they put me to sleep to reset my bone after breaking my ankle.

I was rocking back and forth like a crazy person, I couldnt take the pain any longer.

Menas

Getting a filling is probably the worst I have experienced. Soft life.

gutenberg

Probably when I dislocated my knee: I think the shock initially prevented me from feeling it too badly, but when the doc went to try & pop it back in, sweet jesus! Had to give me a sedative to get it back in.

Although I had an ear infection recently and it was just horrible: pain radiating across my skull, along my jawline, through neck and into the shoulder/upper back. Ugh. Was popping both paracetamol and ibuprofen on rotation to keep it at bay.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Have had two kidney stones. First one I threw up to the pain whilst doubled over on the bathroom floor. Hadn't a clue what it was.
Was of work for a week both times and have never felt that type of pain before or thankfully since.

Summer wind

My knee used to dislocate a lot. My DR showed me how to put it back in myself and after waiting about 18 months I'd an operation to fix it for good. They had to break my knee and shortened the tendons on one side and lengthened them on the other. Spent the night after the operation almost crying with pain even though I was on morphine. The DR said the same problem may happen with my other knee but there's no way I'd have that operation again.

pjmn

Lying on a football pitch with leg broken, and ankle broken & dislocated....

... ended up with plates and screws.... there was pain....

Toss up between ear infections and slamming a door on my little finger
Several weeks later the nail is still purple

Sugar Free

Cervical spine disk protrusion x 2

Ear abscess wasn't far off but at least pain killers and anti-biotics worked with that.

Nerve pain is

Arbiter of Good Taste

Slipped disc - six months of debilitating agony before operation. Thank God for health insurance.

Closely followed by miscarriage

crazygeryy

Good to see this thread being done again.

Bulbous Salutation

1996. U16 Galway hurling championship quarter finals. Ardrahan pitch. Sliotar straight into the bollocks at high speed.

stimpson

Kidney stones are a ****. I was in San Francisco with work crossing the Bay bridge one morning when it felt like I had been kicked in the balls. Curled 3 days of meetings with whatever painkillers I could get over the counter. Then got a flight to Boston to see my sister. 6 hours doubled over with the pain. I was in bits when she arrived at the airport. Two days in her bed drinking ridiculous amounts of water until it moved. I've taken all sorts of things to get high but nothing came close to the euphoria of that moment. Except when I got morphine for them a couple of years ago.

Sugar Free

crazygeryy wrote: »

Good to see this thread being done again.

It's nice to review things every year or two. I've added to my own list since the last time!

coffeepls

Chest drain. Forcing a tube into your back to drain a lung is so crudely Stone Age and yet is modern procedure. Having it removed was no fun either a few days later.

smoking_kills

Bulbous Salutation wrote: »

1996. U16 Galway hurling championship quarter finals. Ardrahan pitch. Sliotar straight into the bollocks at high speed.

I grabbed my Nuts just from reading that :eek:

Pink Fairy

Ruptured appendix for 2 1/2 days, ended up being rushed to hospital and operated on within an hour, ICU for 10 days afterwards, not even 13 years old at the time, nothing has come.close to that pain since then

perfectisthe

I had a strangulated testicle about 15 years ago.

The pain went from mild to unbearable in about 30 seconds. I was walking into Galway City on a Saturday afternoon and crumpled up in a heap on the pavement. It took about 15 minutes for someone to come along and help me.

I must have asked them to ring my dad cause he showed up and brought me to hospital. My memory is sketchy from the pain. I was prepped for surgery about two hours later.

kefir32

Kidney stone pain ...... curled up in foetal position on bathroom floor,, crying in pain and vomiting/retching............ feels like twisting barbed wire in ur abdomen
unforgettable 2013 year for pain

DEFTLEFTHAND

Bulbous Salutation wrote: »

1996. U16 Galway hurling championship quarter finals. Ardrahan pitch. Sliotar straight into the bollocks at high speed.

I've had that happen myself, I was standing on the goal line for a 21 yard free and caught a 100mph rasper, a direct hit. I was keeled over for about ten minutes with it, had to be dragged off the field by the umpire so the game could continue.

bnt

With kidney stones, I learned that there are two different ways it can hurt: the first is renal colic, when a stone blocks the ureter and the kidney backs up. I've had that, and the pain was Epic. It's wasn't that sharp as pain types go, but there was just so much of it. :eek:

I still have a stone in me, haven't yet had the displeasure of passing one from the bladder on out. With some luck, it will dissolve without the need for me to experience the second type of kidney stone pain. :eek:

Roselm

smoking_kills wrote: »

I grabbed my Nuts just from reading that :eek:

So did I and I'm a girl.Ha

retalivity

The pain in the 24 hrs before I had to get a testicle removed due to testicular torsion. It's effectively a blood clot that cut off blood to one of my balls, and can kill after 48 hrs.

Holy fcuk, i'm wincing thinking about it again...

Medusa22

Even though I have a chronic illness, I actually haven't experienced much severe pain, more like chronic pain or discomfort, rather than acute. I've had some uncomfortable operations and procedures over the years but nothing off-the-charts painful. I've had things happen like I had a lung bleed, and I was coughing up mouthfuls of blood but it wasn't painful.

I suppose one of the most painful operations I had was on my nose, I had a deviated septum and I had an operation to basically straighten out my septum.

I get chronic sinusitis, joint and chest pain but that's not usually severe and I've never broken anything.

I've also had operations to put two portacaths in my chest (one had to be removed and so it was replaced. Portacath - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_%28medical%29

I actually feel quite lucky compared to some of the horror stories on this thread!

xLisaBx

Broke 3 toes following a trampolining accident. Wasn't too bad, didn't know they were broken because they were all badly grazed (I fell off). Only realized a few months later when I noticed that they were all wonky- obviously had healed in that shape. The doctor offered me a procedure to break them again and reset them, but I didn't bother, I'll just live with my dodgy toes :pac:

Dramatic and all as this sounds, the worst pain I've ever experienced is severe period pain. I've had my wisdom teeth and tonsils out, the wisdom teeth were impacted, my tonsils had rubbed against each other causing both of them to become cut and bleed a lot. I'm also in the middle of an investigation confirming that I have early onset arthritis. But none of this is as bad as period pain.

Men, consider yourselves lucky!

xLisaBx

xLisaBx wrote: »

Broke 3 toes following a trampolining accident. Wasn't too bad, didn't know they were broken because they were all badly grazed (I fell off). Only realized a few months later when I noticed that they were all wonky- obviously had healed in that shape. The doctor offered me a procedure to break them again and reset them, but I didn't bother, I'll just live with my dodgy toes :pac:

Broke toes once when ai wasn't allowed to a disco at 15 or 16. Stormed off to bedroom, in socks, kicked little wicker bin in front of wall, so kicked wall. Not clever...couldn't tell parents I was so stupid so one foot just walked on heel for a while. Completely dislocated a finger too, which looked shocking, bent L sideways. Luckily it just popped into place so didn't bother with doctor.

bee06

I'm feeling very lucky after reading this thread! Haven't experienced anything like some of the things described here. Probably the worst pain was getting my (very bony) ribs tattooed for two hours a few years ago. all self inflicted though so can't really complain. Still have to experience child birth though ... Looking forward to that experience!

xLisaBx

Deleted User wrote: »

Broke toes once when ai wasn't allowed to a disco at 15 or 16. Stormed off to bedroom, in socks, kicked little wicker bin in front of wall, so kicked wall. Not clever...couldn't tell parents I was so stupid so one foot just walked on heel for a while. Completely dislocated a finger too, which looked shocking, bent L sideways. Luckily it just popped into place so didn't bother with doctor.

It's actually an ok place to break, they seem to heal pretty quickly

blinding

I had the kidney stone.

I was on a train and thought this train is going a bit funny or is it me; it was me

Off the tube train into the toilets maybe (recollection not 100% accurate) a bit of the runs/and getting sick ;out to cab office (white city tube station)

Ask for Cab to hospital; Guy(fooking genius) says your not going to work like that; Me lying against the wall panting and wheezing and sweating.

Into cab ;can't sit on seat so am in footwell in a bad state ; pay cab get into hospital tell nurse i am in big trouble, make way to seat to wait,but have to roll around on the floor in excruitating pain, soon help arrives and they bring me somewhere and give me something and put me on a bed; pain relief not working ,so make my way to nurses once or twice and tell them I am a big boy and i need something stronger ;they give me something stronger and I probably after a while sleep or something; When it is appropriate to approach me they get me to do a urine sample and do something else (Pain, drugs, I am not a reliable witness).

They tell me its probably a kidney stone (blood in urine). After a few hours I go home; at least slightly traumatised. I am okay till midnight and it starts again. Pretty much same as before ; maybe not quite as bad. It must have stopped; i probably had pain relief from the hospital.
Sometime later(I cannot recall how long) I passed my kidney stone. It was about the size of about half the head of a lighting match if that. I still have it somewhere.

I certainly have never experienced anything like that ! ! !

Piece of cake really !

cassid

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/trigeminal_neuralgia/detail_trigeminal_neuralgia.htm

Trigeminal Neuralgia when its out of control or on a flare up, you can't eat,drink or talk too painful. Painkillers don't work because its nerve pain and you just exist and walk the floors at nights, holding your face in agony or face down in a pillow. Nothing matters when you are in a cycle of pain, its just too overwhelming.

I remember ringing to see a pain specialist, as gp has thought it was trigeminal neuralgia, the lovely lady on the phone said oh your poor thing, you know they call that the suicide disease, because people kill themselves because of the intensity of the pain. Only good thing is that specialists will see you almost next day or that day when they think you have this. To be told you have the suicide disease is just something no person should ever be told. Have it 5 years now and still remember how rotten I felt after this wonderful sharing of information. I know avoid talking to admin staff in hospitals and keep away from google when I have a medical problem, this frightened me so much.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Suicide-disease-often-misdiagnosed-4608600.php

Medusa22

bee06 wrote: »

I'm feeling very lucky after reading this thread! Haven't experienced anything like some of the things described here. Probably the worst pain was getting my (very bony) ribs tattooed for two hours a few years ago. all self inflicted though so can't really complain. Still have to experience child birth though ... Looking forward to that experience!

I got a tattoo done on my back, definitely not as sore as the ribs must have been though, and I had plenty of chub at the time so it shouldn't have hurt too much, but when the tattooist was tattooing my spine, my god, the pain!! 5 hours of gritting my teeth

xLisaBx

Medusa22 wrote: »

I got a tattoo done on my back, definitely not as sore as the ribs must have been though, and I had plenty of chub at the time so it shouldn't have hurt too much, but when the tattooist was tattooing my spine, my god, the pain!! 5 hours of gritting my teeth

I'm mad to get a rib tattoo but some places wont even attempt it as a first one :pac:

Medusa22

xLisaBx wrote: »

I'm mad to get a rib tattoo but some places wont even attempt it as a first one :pac:

I got mine done at a tattoo convention and it was my first tattoo but the guy didn't realise that until we were about half-way through, he was surprised that I'd chosen such a big tattoo for my first one. It wasn't all bad though because there was a bar in the hotel where the convention was on and I asked a friend to get me a vodka and coke to ease the pain :pac:

Maybe just don't tell them it's your first

xLisaBx

Medusa22 wrote: »

I got mine done at a tattoo convention and it was my first tattoo but the guy didn't realise that until we were about half-way through, he was surprised that I'd chosen such a big tattoo for my first one. It wasn't all bad though because there was a bar in the hotel where the convention was on and I asked a friend to get me a vodka and coke to ease the pain :pac:

Maybe just don't tell them it's your first

Ha, good idea, I'll be like, "ohhh I've done this so many times before" :rolleyes:
The thousands of questions I'll have definitely won't make me look suspicious

mad m

OP, wait till you pass stone. Have suffered with stones since I was 23....20 years on I'd say I've had 3/4 stents put in. Not nice getting them put in, even worse getting a stent taken out, they do it while your awake..

They put a small camera down your japs eye while your laying down on bed, put a small grabber in and it grabs stent while a doc is looking down a camera. He then yanks it out.......jaysus....

I've had an 8mm stone block my urethra, had it blasted. I can manage to pass 5mm stones no bother.

Heroditas

retalivity wrote: »

The pain in the 24 hrs before I had to get a testicle removed due to testicular torsion. It's effectively a blood clot that cut off blood to one of my balls, and can kill after 48 hrs.

Holy fcuk, i'm wincing thinking about it again...

Suffered the same thing many moons ago and, like yourself, wasn't operated on for 18hours.
Pains all the way from my testicles up into my chest, vomiting for hours. Finally started vomiting blood.
Winced with pain every time the hospital trolley hit the smallest bump.

mad m

mad m wrote: »

OP, wait till you pass stone. Have suffered with stones since I was 23....20 years on I'd say I've had 3/4 stents put in. Not nice getting them put in, even worse getting a stent taken out, they do it while your awake..

They put a small camera down your japs eye while your laying down on bed, put a small grabber in and it grabs stent while a doc is looking down a camera. He then yanks it out.......jaysus....

I've had an 8mm stone block my urethra, had it blasted. I can manage to pass 5mm stones no bother.

Jesus. No thanks. The thought of facing that regularly...it's depressing. God love you.

cassid

cassid wrote: »

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/trigeminal_neuralgia/detail_trigeminal_neuralgia.htm

Trigeminal Neuralgia when its out of control or on a flare up, you can't eat,drink or talk too painful. Painkillers don't work because its nerve pain and you just exist and walk the floors at nights, holding your face in agony or face down in a pillow. Nothing matters when you are in a cycle of pain, its just too overwhelming.

I remember ringing to see a pain specialist, as gp has thought it was trigeminal neuralgia, the lovely lady on the phone said oh your poor thing, you know they call that the suicide disease, because people kill themselves because of the intensity of the pain. Only good thing is that specialists will see you almost next day or that day when they think you have this. To be told you have the suicide disease is just something no person should ever be told. Have it 5 years now and still remember how rotten I felt after this wonderful sharing of information. I know avoid talking to admin staff in hospitals and keep away from google when I have a medical problem, this frightened me so much.

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Suicide-disease-often-misdiagnosed-4608600.php

Know a fellow with this and he was growing his own cannabis and getting by...but busted twice now and kinda at his wits end.

January

coffeepls wrote: »

Chest drain. Forcing a tube into your back to drain a lung is so crudely Stone Age and yet is modern procedure. Having it removed was no fun either a few days later.

My daughter had open heart surgery last year and they were removing the chest drain without any pain relief for her, she was 5 at the time. In the end they had to sedate her as she was just in too much of a state for them to do it without it. She also had her pacing wires removed the next day, again, no pain relief for a five year old, just wrapped around two fingers and yanked right out.

It's no wonder she's a bit sceptical of medical professionals nowadays.

uch

I got circumcised at 39

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stimpson

mad m wrote: »

OP, wait till you pass stone. Have suffered with stones since I was 23....20 years on I'd say I've had 3/4 stents put in. Not nice getting them put in, even worse getting a stent taken out, they do it while your awake..

They put a small camera down your japs eye while your laying down on bed, put a small grabber in and it grabs stent while a doc is looking down a camera. He then yanks it out.......jaysus....

I've had an 8mm stone block my urethra, had it blasted. I can manage to pass 5mm stones no bother.

I think after passing a big one it makes way and they get easier. I passed a 5mm one recently after driving from London to Holyhead. Was a bit uncomfortable but didn't stop me driving. I've passed bigger too.

Smiley11

Gall stones for me. Hands down excruciating. Although I must face labour shortly so I'll get back to ye. I've been told gall stones are still worse so I'm hopeful for now!

uck51js9zml2yt

January wrote: »

My daughter had open heart surgery last year and they were removing the chest drain without any pain relief for her, she was 5 at the time. In the end they had to sedate her as she was just in too much of a state for them to do it without it. She also had her pacing wires removed the next day, again, no pain relief for a five year old, just wrapped around two fingers and yanked right out.

It's no wonder she's a bit sceptical of medical professionals nowadays.

Wow that's tough for anyone, never mind a 5 yo.
Had the same a few months ago. Take a deep breath and then yanked out the drains.

Felt a lot better afterwards.

PucaMama

When I dislocated my knee cap. Or the migraine-style headaches before I got my medication. Also I had some swelling in my lower leg weeks after getting the knee support off. One night I had some kind of spasm in the calf? Oh the pain. Other than that I've a bad back, which causes enough pain on its own. My other knee isn't great either.