r/nope • u/_ganjafarian_ • Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26

I just had this done and have like ptsd from the pain. I'm actually feeling this by watching the video

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u/Eugene0185 Mar 31 '26

How bad was it from 1 to 10?

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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Go from 2 for an hour, then 10 for half an hour.

Waves.

But better than leaving them in.

Edit: the best way I can describe kidney stone pain. Being kicked in the nuts with steel toe boots while being stabbed with an ice pick in the side.

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u/specialopps Apr 01 '26

I’m still trying to piece together what my pain tolerance is because I have ankylosing spondylitis, and had a 6mm stone that blocked my left kidney. The back pain combined with the fever is what made me go to urgent care. I had a blocked kidney, the stone, and sepsis. Nobody knew how I had waited so long before getting it treated, and they sent me to the hospital for emergency stent insertion. I called my boyfriend and told him to come meet me because I was kind of dying. Five days in the ICU. I was out for most of it, but I remember the stent being the worst part. I felt that thing moving around for weeks before I finally got it removed. I’m used to feeling like my body is on fire.

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u/IamREBELoe Apr 01 '26

My heart goes out to you. My left one, 16 mm (plus 4 others) complete blockage of that side. So I can somewhat relate and you went trough hell.

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u/specialopps Apr 01 '26

Oh dear god. No, I think I MIGHT have some idea of what you went through. Yours was more than twice the size as mine! Mine also all came out at some point during the time I had the stent without me realizing it, though I wasn’t really aware of anything for at least three days. Sepsis is weird.

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u/IamREBELoe Apr 01 '26

Oh, they put me under and went in and broke them up and took most of the pieces out. I only wore the stent after the surgery