I’m passinga kidney stone – have passed them for 13 years – since I was about 24. Anyway, this one is a painful son of a gun…..and it’s near the ‘final frontier’ – just wondering if you have any advice as to how to get it out. I am drinking lots and lots of water….and I have been doing my normal morning workouts….but it’s quite achey……and in the past, Doc’s have told me that ‘movement’ is key – so walking, exercise, etc is good, if you can do it.

I do think I have a pretty high threshold for pain……but the gnawing pain is really getting old.

The largest stone I’ve ever passed is the size of half of an Advil…..which is pretty big…..and I’m concerned that this one is larger…..

I’m an old pro with it comes to passing kidney stones, but if you have any advice, I’m all ears (or eyes since we’re reading it here.)
When I was going through chemotherapy (Jan-July 2007) I was taking Allopurinol…..and I must admit, while it’s a good chemo-for-cancer drug, it is also used to eliminate the formation of kidney stones/gout. Anyway, I felt that during that time, my kidneys felt great….no pain at all. Not sure why doc didn’t prescribe this for me….but I think once this/these pass, I’ll have to go and have it prescribed…..I can’t live like this…

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I just had my first warning sign that I will soon pass a kidney stone. (Extreme sharp pain at the tip of my urethra.) This has me very worried (and terrified to go to the restroom!)

I’ve passed many kidney stones over the last five years (I’m 18 years old, male, 5’9" 140 lbs, and otherwise healthy.) Passing kidney stones have been by far the worst experience of my life. My question now is, 1) How fast do Kidney Stones grow? It’s been a while now since I’ve passed one, does that mean that the stone is going to be bigger this time because it’s had longer to grow?

2) Is there anything I can do over the next day or so that I’m passing the stone besides taking Vicodin? The worst part of the experience by FAR is going to the restroom, knowing that I could pass the stone at any time. I’ve had at least one incidence of the stone getting stuck halfway out of my urethra. (With an unpleasant "milking" required to remove the stone.) Any tips for stone passage?

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my dad is the master at passing kidney stones. since age 36, he’s passed his share, like 30+ and they’re big ones too! now that he is 53, he’s developed additional health problems, but still gets stones. when he was 36, he married his 2nd wife, he began passing stones and they had 2 kids. after that marriage ended, my dad went on a spree of just fooling around with woman after woman, no long term relationships, but made 3 kids out of it, not including his newest one. back in February my dad started fooling around with this 20 yr hottie, and I mean HOT! I have no idea how he gets the hot young women, but he does, even though short lived, he still gets them. I know for a fact there are men trying to get with her all of the time. after my dad started dating her, he had one of the worst kidney stones he’s ever had. he said getting it out the pipe was the worst part because of its size and it was jagged(OUCH!!!). I can’t imagine what that felt like & you know he was yelling at it was coming out. so that’s my dad’s pain story of 2008. so then, he gets this 20 yr hottie pregnant and last week, i went over there with my dad to deliver a crib for the baby, which she didnt have yet. it was at her mom’s house too, which felt all the weirder to me. the mom does not like my dad at all. before we were going to leave, she went into labor right there in the house. we called 911, they got there and helped deliver the baby, i did not stick around too close during the birth, but did hear enough of her mom and my dad trading insults with each other. with her in pain and my dad blabbing about what he does when he has a stone, the mom tells my dad, "this isnt the same, nobody wants to hear about you having a stone come out of your dick!" my dad is right there when the baby was born. he looked down towards Kressi before the baby was coming out i guess, then he looked away and backed up, like he couldnt look anymore. her mom looked at my dad and said, "whats wrong, you’ve never seen an angry one before?" at first i didnt get it, but then realized that she meant he gets a lot of pussy! afterwards she told my dad, that childbirth is way worse than passing a kidney stone. he disagreed, but not sure how he would know!

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My dad was planning to drive up from LA to Berkeley to visit my family, but he started passing kidney stones, which delayed the trip. All he could talk about, though, was how he’d booked a nonrefundable hotel room. Joel Jacobs

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I just painlessly passed a five mm kidney stone.

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