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

05-12-2015 05:47PM #1

...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 · 05-12-2015 05:52PM

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 · 05-12-2015 05:54PM

Gallstones, actually thought I was dying.

Much worse than childbirth.

05-12-2015 05:54PM

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

...And Justice · 05-12-2015 05:55PM

6 smashed ribs and broken pelvis

MilesMorales1 · 05-12-2015 05:55PM

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

TG1 · 05-12-2015 05:58PM

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 · 05-12-2015 06:01PM

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 · 05-12-2015 06:05PM

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 · 05-12-2015 06:07PM

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

gutenberg · 05-12-2015 06:19PM

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 · 05-12-2015 06:23PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:21PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:30PM

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

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

05-12-2015 07:31PM

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

Sugar Free · 05-12-2015 07:34PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:36PM

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

Closely followed by miscarriage

crazygeryy · 05-12-2015 07:38PM

Good to see this thread being done again.

Bulbous Salutation · 05-12-2015 07:38PM

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

stimpson · 05-12-2015 07:44PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:44PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:44PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:46PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:49PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:50PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:52PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:52PM

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 · 05-12-2015 07:55PM

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 · 05-12-2015 08:00PM

smoking_kills wrote: »

I grabbed my Nuts just from reading that :eek:

So did I and I'm a girl.Ha

retalivity · 05-12-2015 08:00PM

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 · 05-12-2015 08:05PM

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!

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

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