I am not sure if I do, but I got nasty shooting pains and shit in my lower abdomen and shit. I feel like the rocky mountains are passing through me. No, I don't have to shit. The pain is getting worse by the hour to the point of unbearable. WTF?

yes. ok this is what i went through. i started pissing what looked like pepsi early in the morning, and my lower back hurt. it progressively got worse throughout the day, but felt like i pulled a muscle. at about 4 in the afternoon it hit me like a ton of bricks, and it felt like a spiked bowling ball was spinning in the middle of my abdomen. it is the worst pain imaginable, i can't remember the 6 hours i sat in the hospital waiting to be seen, i only remember getting up once to vomit from the pain. its like lightning, you can't move, i just sat curled up on a bed until they pumped me full of morphine. the stone passed 9 fucking days after it was discovered.

webmd.com, brah

definitely get to the doctor. they can put you on something at least, and then give you the MRI to find it. they also give you a healthy prescription for percocets.

Ha, narcotics, natures way of saying sorry. I checked webmd and it does not look good for me. Thanks for the info Yeti. My piss is still normal colored, but we'll see if I piss soda soon. This sucks.

I drink so much coffee that I'm worried about this.
no one in my family that I know of got them.

Does coffee really cause this rev?? I drink a ton of it too. My family has had them. What about the coffee causes them?

the pain is so bad, I would willingly go thru chilbirth again than have another kidney stone. good luck

it will also affect your bladder, you'll start having to piss a lot and it will be extremely painful. i'd suggest getting to the doctor, even if it isn't a stone, pain like that equals something bad. i hope the best, and if it is one, i hope it passes quickly. 9 days with a rock sitting in your urinary tract isn't pleasant.

the doctor said its the male equivalent of childbirth. he said he's had giant biker guys covered in tattoos come in curled up in tears over it.

I was ready to throw myself into the wall of the ER in hopes of getting knocked out. Thank god for IV pain meds.

I don't want to go to the hospital here as they are horrible and might as well throw me in the morgue. I might call my doctor in a bit, not sure. I don't want to jump the gun. So I take it the pain comes and goes, then increases and becomes more steady or what?

it starts off like nothing, the pain increases, from the back to the abdomen, to where you can't bear to move or breathe. you'll go for a CT, and then to dissolve them, they put you on a vibrating table

A vibrating table? That's hottt

i've had one... it sucked... there are several different types i had the most common one... they gave me a potassium supplement and told me to drink water like it was my job... i passed it a couple days later and it was broken up so it didn't hurt when it passed... i had to pee thru a strainer to collect it it looked like little red grains of sand...

you should get ur ass to the doctor cause it may not be a stone it could be a kidney infection or something completely different like ur appendix or liver etc...

having said that the pain of a kidney stone is the worst pain i've ever had.. i've broken my arm, foot, leg.. recently had stomach surgery.. etc and nothing even comes close to kidney stone pain.. it will bring u to the brink of tears/wanting to jump off a cliff... the only way i can describe it is it feels like someone has stabbed u in the side with a knife that is just stuck there.. and every so often the doosh that stabbed you twists the knife.

they say that excessive caffeine consumption can cause problems... but alot of doctors don't read much into that... they also say eating alot of dairy etc causes issues... both due to calcium.. mine was a calcium deposit and i dont drink coffee and don't eat a ton of dairy... my doc told me i needed more potassium in my body and that i don't drink nearly enough water... we underestimate how water flushes out our systems... he told me that a normal healthy person should be drinking 8 8oz glasses of water a day.

that was 3 years ago knock on wood...

Fucking ouch... This thing looks like one of the walls for Supermans hideout.

Calcium stones. Roughly four out of five kidney stones are calcium stones, usually in the form of calcium oxalate. Oxalate is found in some fruits and vegetables, but the liver produces most of the body's oxalate supply. Dietary factors, high doses of vitamin D, intestinal bypass surgery and several different metabolic disorders can increase the concentration of calcium or oxalate in urine.
Struvite stones. Found more often in women, struvite stones are almost always the result of urinary tract infections. Struvite stones may be large enough to fill most of a kidney's urine-collecting space, forming a characteristic stag's-horn shape.
Uric acid stones. These stones are formed of uric acid, a byproduct of protein metabolism. You're more likely to develop uric acid stones if you eat a high-protein diet. Gout also leads to uric acid stones. Certain genetic factors and disorders of the blood-producing tissues also may predispose you to the condition.
Cystine stones. These stones represent only a small percentage of kidney stones. They form in people with a hereditary disorder that causes the kidneys to excrete excessive amounts of certain amino acids (cystinuria).

Coffee can actually PREVENT kidney stones, not cause them. Coffee in large doses has been shown to break down Uric Acid, which as Murf said is one of the prevalent causes of stones.

Yeah, but coffee also dehydrates you, which is a no no if you are known to get them. Since my stones are all gone, I have been drinking water ever since like mad. I guess it would be better to drink decaf, but whats the fucking point then?

I've had several. The worst pain is when it passes from your kidney to bladder, since those tubes are the smallest. That's where my lightning jolts came from. Passing from the bladder to outside is a little better, but it feels really strange having a pain come from inside your penis.

Best self remedy I know of is to drink lots of water. It'll flush you out, hopefully get that thing moving.

I get them a lot, one was so bad they even put a stent(?) in me. That was the worst, asleep going in, wide awake in the urologists office coming out. Very surreal seeing a white and green tube coming out of the head of your cock, let me tell you.
Def. get to the doctor or hospital. If it's stuck it means it's to big to pass and the pain is just going to get worse.
Funny story, now... I went to the ER for one and the nurse said to me "A kidney stone huh? that pain is second only to childbirth" I said thanks a lot that made feel so much better.

no shit, coffee ain't that good

Childbirth pain has been blown way out of proportion. It's just a woman's way of trying to be superior using something we have never experienced. Pain is relative and some people have a higher pain tolerance than others. Estrogen lowers pain tolerance. Testosterone raises pain tolerance.

AHAHAHAHAHA

Dude, I cry when I pass a too big shit. I cannot even imagine being pried apart like that. I've been around quite a few vaginas, and anything that can clamp onto a cock must hurt like hell getting stretched wide open 6 inches or more.

drink water

You simply have a lower pain tolerance.

Although, morphine shits are fucking ridiculous.

wow, fuck you. i honest to god just got my first kidney stone last week. I am passing it slowly but surely. It sucks, sucks, sucks, it's too small for surgery (SO MY DOCTOR SAYS) but its big enough to make me keel over in pain about, oh, id say 50times a day. i wanna die. they gave me demerol, and i still wanna die, i take the demerol with poppy pod tea i make and i STILL WANNA DIE.

when it passes, its not really painful, it just feels so fucking weird. kind of like in Dead Alive when Lionel's uncle passes one.

i think that is what the doctor said to me verbatim. they were all non-chalant about it.

I've never had a stone. I had a kidney infection recently, it feels like someone is playing basketball with your kidneys. It was fucking awful. they gave me 30 vicodin though which was pretty sweet.

FUCK FUCK FUCK round 2. This sucks, i can feel it in my kidney now. I've had some bad back problems recently, so i was chalking this up to that. Only this morning i realized that it was another stone. DAMNIT!

no more soda for you

and i drink too much fucking soda too.

oh man i just re-read what i posted the first time, i haven't thought about this in a long time, i haven't had any problems since. i wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy.

Jim have you been to a urologist?

the pain just got bad enough today that i think it's not the fucked up nerve in my back. So no, i haven't had a reason to before this, but now i will make an appointment fo rizzle.

Just drink a lot of water and be done with it. Cut the soda. Squeeze that puppy out and be proud.

no soda yet today. argghhhhh

I drink coffee like water doesn't exist. How much of a correlation is there between coffee consumption and kidney stones? After reading this thread I almost don't want to drink coffee again.

The milk you put in your coffee is more likely to cause a kidney stone than the coffee. Dehydration is the usual cause for kidney stones, but eating too much animal protein is also a contributor. This is speculation here, but too much calcium without magnesium probably helps cause them, too.