anyone ever experienced a kidney stone?

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If you have... What where the symptoms?

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For me I thought I had appendicitis as it felt like you hear that should feel. I also had displaced pain in my right shoulder. I also blacked out after going to kitchen in night for drink and dp found me sprawled naked across overturned bin amongst used tea bags and cabbage leaves etc

Not good! Well where's that site? Can't find it

The pain was excruciating. It was by my waist early in the day and then moved to my groin and I couldn't walk. Nothing even touched it It was like that for 4 days I thought it was something ovary related

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I suffered pregnancy related renal colic. It was much worse than giving birth. The pain is severe, episodic, nothing touches it short of morphine. Starts in your back, moves to your groin.

Hospital is best as most gps are unhappy giving opiates in the community. You need to drink loads and LOADS of water. Take painkillers, watch for signs of infection and see a doc ASAP for proper pain relief.

The pain is very severe, in your lower back and groin. It comes in waves, every 20-60 minutes or so. I've found as it gets lower I get a pulsing, heavy pain in my labia and bits thereabouts, then a very sharp stinging feeling as it comes out. I've recently had a gritty kidney, so no big stones passed, and I was in pain quite badly for about a week. Tramadol and diclofenac took the edge off slightly, but there were more than a few occasions I would have gone to hospital for morphine if I had someone to watch my kids for me, alas not and stuck at home.

The waves is agony The tramadol sent me nuts!

Excruciating pain, as bad, if not worse than childbirth. It started as one sided back pain and then progressed til I was unable to walk and vomiting. Morphine was the only thing that took the pain away. Not an experience that I wish to repeat, so I drink lots of water & try to limit caffeine. Not sure if it makes any difference, but anything is worth a try.

Thankyou, well update...the pains I was experiencing this morning have eased off..had a few sharp pains in left side, but its back into my back. Left side all the way down from bottom of my ribs. VERY VERY painful. Been in tears many times today because of pain! The pain I had in my left abdomen this morning ...I couldn't move without feeling like I was being stabbed, I couldn't walk, all I cud do is lay in bed. But that didn't make it feel any better.I felt nauseous, hot. I would say it hurt a hell of a lot more than labour! I'm off to doctors tomorrow but thinking as the pain in abdomen has eased off from like a 10 to a 2-3 could it be something sinister? I'm scared its stressing my baby? Movements have increased

If you are pregnant why are you thinking immediately of kidney stones?

you need to see a dr asap.

About your baby!!

I had pregnancy kidney stones, which means a lot of painkillers aren't allowed.

I got really stressed about the morphine I was on and spoke to the pain specialist. He explained to me that the stress hormones from pain and me worrying were more dangerous for baby than the painkillers. Possibly why movement has imcreased for you? After that I took the morphine happily, dd2 was checked by paeds at birth and we had a couple of extra days in hospital in case she had signs of addiction but as I'd only had what the doctor recommended she was fine and didn't need any special care.

Kidney stones are quite common in pregnancy due to the increased risk of infection (I had loads) and the weight of the baby.

Hope it sorts itself out soon xx

It was the most painful thing I have every experienced.

DD3 was 10 weeks old and I colapsed on the bathroom floor, poor DD1 had to shout for help out of the bathroom window.

Stupid 999 operator put the call through as an abdo pain no blue light response so they sent a car out with ambulance back up over an hour away.

Paramedic in the car gave me morphine and I still thought I was going to die, she even asked if I had a history of drug abuse because she couldn't give me any more pain relief.

DH arrived before the ambulance and they wouldn't let him take me in his car because of the morphine.

I then spent Easter bank holiday on a stretcher off my face on morphine and gas & air.

We had to transfer to a private hospital in the end and after having a stent put in I was sent home with a urine bag because my kidney wouldn't function.

I had to stop bf'ing DD3 because of the drugs

It was hell from start to finish, you must see your gp.

stop trying to self diagnose and call your doctor

Get your butt to a doctor, if you have an infection or stones it can irritate the uterus and worst case scenario is early labour, you need to treat anything like that with urgency, same day appointment if you can get it, ring the midwife if needs be.