Kidney stone symptoms like pain are quite characteristic. When a person is passing a stone and suffering from excruciating pain it is not hard to tell that it’s a kidney stone issue. The pain doesn’t come from the stone when it is in the kidney, even though that may be the area that feels the pain, the pain starts when it moves from the kidney down into the ureter.
The stones form in the kidney over a period of time often because of a prolonged period of dehydration and then drop out of the kidney down into the ureter, which is the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder. The flow of urine will push the stone either to the bladder or sometimes if it is too large it will become stuck in the narrow ureter tube.
That’s when people get that stereotypical excruciating pain which means they can’t get comfortable so they end up in the emergency room. So what happens is when the stone gets trapped in a narrow part of that tube the urine can’t get passed the stone because of the blockage. It backs up the urine causing the kidney to swell up and the pain fibers in the kidney stretch which gives that terrible pain that people describe.
First piss after LITHOTRIPSY!
So when people end up in an emergency room they usually given pain relief medication and then generally they have a cat scan if it’s available, which is the best way to discover the location and size of the stone and what kind of damage it might be doing.
Passing the stone naturally is obviously the best option if it is not too large and the patient can handle the process. If the stone is too large it may require medical intervention to help the process along.
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