[lunarimiso]

I just, 2 days ago, starting to experience slight discomfort in the liver/kidney area. The feeling was very similar to how it was with my gallbladder. At least until it was removed. I am totally a ticking time bomb. So, yes.. please bring on even better treatments.

[justanotheratom]

just FYI, AFAIK, kidney stone pain is sudden and unbearable, when the stone starts moving out of the kidney. Slight discomfort may not be a sign of kidney stone.

[powersurge360]

Chronic stone former here, requiring surgical intervention a few times a year.

It definitely can be sudden and debilitating but for most of my teenage years I had mistaken the pain for ‘sleeping wrong’. Sometimes when I would bend over and then stand it would feel like someone had stapled my back together at the bend and I had to rip it out. It hurt, but not anything like what I expected. A couple of years later I wound up having a few stones that had grown to larger than an inch.

If you have unusual and unexpected pain it’s definitely worth getting checked out. I didn’t have health insurance at the time and since the pain was intermittent I never suspected anything serious and just chalked it up to sleeping in a poor posture or maybe not getting enough exercise to be limber. It almost killed me!

[Tade0]

For a long time I had a fear of flying.

After I passed stones I noticed something odd - no usual anxiety during takeoff and landing.

It was the stones all this time.

[UberFly]

Strange. A mental thing or possible pain from sitting so long?

[Tade0]

Pain from 'dem stones moving around in the bladder I think - but I don't really know, since the USG after passing didn't indicate anything.

For a long time any significant g-forces would cause pain in the abdomen, which I unwittingly started ignoring at one point. But the fear of that pain stayed and I couldn't identify where it came from.

When I the plane started its ascent and I felt nothing, I connected the dots - especially that the passing and flying were just a few months apart.

[Turing_Machine]

It varies a lot depending on the size of the stone and its jaggedness.

I've unfortunately had several of them. Some passed with only mild discomfort. Others were excruciating... worst pain I've ever had.

Somewhere around here I have a glass bottle with my collection of stones.

[RadixDLT]

get ready for some screams at night, your neighbors might think you are doing something different though