My wife gave me so much s**t the first time I had them. She thought I was exaggerating. Luckily a few of her girlfriends described is as close to birth or worse and then she gave me a little slack.
I'll share my first experience.. lol..
I Started feeling crappy Wednesday of vacation week. Weds night I pissed before bed and it was pink. I kept that info to myself because my wife likes to freak out. Thursday morning, clear pee. Feeling crappy I said id go down to the beach but wasn't swimming or anything. Started feeling worse n went up to the outhouse to pee. Pissed blood red. I headed back to the house and during that 2 min golf cart drive death grabbed ahold of me. I called the wife and said she needed to come back n take me to the hospital. I was in the fetal position on the bedroom floor by the time she got there. After they confirmed a stone, they started with iv meds. They gave me everything. Dilaudid, morphine, the regular stuff.. I told them all they were doing was making me high and I was still dying, which was evident by my uncontrollable movements to find comfort. They then gave me ketamine.. that's when the walls started melting. They got me under control n sent me on my way with a script of Dilaudid in pill form. The VRBO renter knew what was going on and was nice enough to let us stay till Sunday morning.. well, 5am Sunday, it flared up. I took pills, went to the couch, searching for relief anywhere. Then it hit me, try the hot tub. Got in my underwear n headed out for the community hot tub at 6am. It freakin worked. Immediate (albeit temporary) relief.. once the pain came back I went back to the couch, almost making a move back to the ER.. then I hit the tub again and figured out that back and forth from the hot tub to pool to hot tub was shocking enough to my body that it helped immensely.. I did that till we left for home.. wife drove the whole way because I was eating Dilaudid like tic tacs. Had the lithotripsy done a week after home then finally pissed out a full 6.4mm stone..
F kidney stones.