TMI alert: I went to the Dr. for something like a check up and he did a urinalysis. He came in the room and asked me if I was on my period, I said no, he left and came back and asked if my lower back was hurting at all, I said nope and he said they saw blood in my urine. He started thinking something was up with my kidneys so he gave me an antibiotic and sent me on my way (I can't remember if he set me up for a scan or not). It was either a few hours later, that night or the next night I was laying in bed and woke up with the right side of my lower back and side was hurting and I started having to pee a lot, then the pain kept getting worse and worse. I went to the ER and they did another urinalysis and a CT scan and said it was a kidney stone. I had heard of them, but had never had one so he explained that the tube our urine travels through is about the diameter of an uncooked spaghetti noodle and my stone was about the size of the tip of an ink pin. The stones have sharp edges on them so imagine trying to fit something sharp that is the size of the tip of an ink pen through an uncooked spaghetti noodle and that's why they hurt and take a while to pass. ER doc told me to follow up with a urologist, I did and he gave me a strainer to pee in to catch the stone so he could analyze it to see if it was made of calcium or potassium. That's all he could do for me. There isn't much they can do unless they are too big to pass then they will either do lithotripsy or surgery. Mine were small enough to pass, they just freaking wouldn't.

I may be getting 2 different times messed up because I've dealt with these suckers a couple of times. This one is by far the easiest one I've had to deal with.