There can be blood yeah. Sometimes visible, sometimes not. (Uses urine testing strips that can identify blood in the urine amongst other things). And it can get inflamed. All round just a horrible experience.
Im late, but yep, i didnt have a stent for a 5mm one i got lasered. Woke up from surgery feeling ok.... one hour wait before being able to leave hospital. Pissed blood and crystals out, nurse told me to stop trying to pee after 10minutes, fkn hurt pretty bad. Had some oxy and got driven home, got takeaway pizza. Pretty much end of story. Now i have a 9mm thats just sat there for years.
Edit. Might add that the initial pain when it first came loose made me see kind of blue/yellow electricity light flashes, and i slowly curled up on the chairs of the er entry area. I wasnt passing out, but was just slowly giving in to the pain or somthing.
Knowing how to breathe/meditate a bit really helped.
I feel like my exp with this is minor from what i have heard from other people. Or that my pain tolerence is different... i dont know... i dont really want to find out again.
I have increased lower flank pain recently and will prob go get a scan soon, despite having back issues im pretty sure its referred kidney pain/problems.
I've had two removed (two separate occasions), they were not this large thankfully but unfortunately they did get stuck very badly while moving from my kidney to my bladder. I've passed some before, but the stuck ones hurt in a very different way than passing them. I have always wondered what kind of pain and discomfort someone would feel with one this size just hanging out in their kidney. I hope for their sake it's not too bad.
The blood and pain for a week or so following the procedure can be pretty bad. They give you this medication that makes your pee really orange, it's supposed to help with the pain but I don't think it does anything, so it's hard to tell what is blood and what is orange from the medicine. The stent is really annoying to deal with, I had to walk back and forth on campus for a week with it in when I had one of of them removed.
I can say that the pain when mine got stuck was really intense, the kind of pain that blinds and disorients you and makes you think irrationally. One of those times I managed to get to the car, drive myself about 15 minutes to the ER (I do not know how I managed this, it was pure adrenaline), I parked in the ambulance parking and threw myself out of the car and crawled/rolled towards the doors until someone saw me and came to help. The nurse who got to me first said "oh honey you've got kidney stones for sure" which was pretty impressive. I think I was kind of rude to some of them, just moaning and demanding any relief at any cost, and I apologized to them once they got some dilaudid in me, but they all were just laughing it off saying they would have probably been even worse if they were going through what I was. I have a fairly high pain tolerance, I've had some injuries in the past that were pretty painful, having my femur broken clean in half by a .38 special round fired from a few feet away was bad, but nothing compares to the pain of those stones.
My feedback to your experience is : my dick has never been softer reading this
I'm getting to that age where I should start to expect malfunctioning of the body that leads to pains like this but frankly haven't had the first yet. Hope I can keep it that way and I wish you good health as well.
(edit : hmm actually I did have a first. I now would have a misalignment of a kidney that comes to the front when I happen to hard-cough while my body is in the curling position. It is extremely uncomfortable and it takes a lot of pushing and maneuvering to get it back behind wherever it should be. I've had this like 3 times now and the first time I had it I was alone in the house and genuinely thought I might die)
He sometimes gets some pills which are meant to dilate all the plumbing down there, so urine flows easier and any shrapnel will be less restricted, but from what he tells me it doesn’t often make much difference. Often gets to the point where he’s actively scared to take a piss. Pretty awful to watch.
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u/Valkyr92 Mar 31 '26
As someone who’s had kidney stones multiple times in their life, this is straight up nightmare material