shalom PALS
early Sunday morning around 4 AM I woke up in the middle of the night. shortly after that I started to get this INTENSE pain in my nuts, similar to the feeling of blue balls. really dull and achy pain. I thought it was odd as I hadn't been fooling around with anyone to get blue balls. I was puzzled.
I then started feeling a very deep and intense pain in my back/ side, almost like I pulled a muscle... Within 15 minutes of feeling the initial pain I was on my floor in the fetal position, writhing and moaning in pain. I've never heard myself make sounds like that; imagine a grown man wailing, which quickly turned to sobbing, at the top of their lungs.
I tried riding the pain out for an hour and a half but it only got worse. at this point I was laying in bed with my glasses off, and I started hallucinating these all encompassing black voids in my ceiling. the thought that I was dying crossed my mind. I thought an organ was rupturing. I cannot stress this enough, it was the WORST pain I'd ever felt in my life.
I ended up calling my mom, who then called an ambulance. the ambulance showed up about 2 hours after the initial feeling in my back. before they left my driveway I was given IV pain meds that didn't do anything, halfway through the ride to the hospital I got another shot. again, didn't do anything. all the while I am uncontrollably thrashing, wailing, and sobbing. I was literally crying out for the Lord to take the pain away. the possibility of death had crossed my mind more than once...
as I'm getting rolled into the hospital I was thinking, "emergency surgery is 100% a possibility right now." I get to the hospital, 3rd shot, and it finally started to help. the nurses thanked me for being so loud as it helped wake them up first thing in the morning. A CT scan showed a rather large kidney stone lodged in my kidney before traveling to my bladder.
I was sent home with antibiotics, promethazine, and a medication to help me piss with more volume and with more force.
I get home from the hospital, eat a whole frozen pizza, and sleep until about 8 PM. shortly after I woke up I passed the stone, and thankfully it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I went to take a piss and I felt all this pressure build up in my ween and the thing shot out
after passing the stone it felt like I dipped my dick in hot sauce. you know how you can put a straw in liquid, place your finger on top of the straw to create suction, and the liquid stays inside? yeah, it felt like I did that with my dick in a bowl of hot sauce made out of porcupine needles.
Its been a few days now and I'm back at work, but I can still feel this pain in my kidney. I'm hoping another one isn't forming. I've resigned to the fact that I'll have to cut out all the sugar I can (not necessarily a bad thing) and stop drinking alcohol.
I do plan on taking the medication to make me piss more as a fun party trick.
If you ever think about getting a kidney stone, don't.
Here's a photo of what the IVs did to me because I was thrashing around so much: