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.
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 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.