r/mildyinteresting • u/Bronxanator • 10d ago

humankind hiccups šŸ˜… The Absolutely Massive Kidney Stone I passed yesterday

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A let's say... interesting thing to witness come out of your body.

Edit to address some FAQs:

I am okay. Honestly I was only in severe pain one day.

Yes it hurt. Mostly when it was moving from the kidney to the bladder

I hydrate well at a minimum of 64 oz of water per day.

I had a full metabolic work up after my first kidney stone and the best the urologist could tell me was it's stress related.

I used a strainer, I didn't reach into the toilet.

Dimensions are roughly 15mm x 5 mm x 4.5mm at the thickest region.

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u/Legened255509Druss 10d ago

You pee it out. You drink a ton of water and take medication prescribed to help pass it and break it down.

Once it passes the kidneys youā€™ll start peeing blood. Best thing to do is drink as much water and in my case drank a shit ton of lemon juice (acid helps break it down) so that itā€™s not this big when you piss it out.

I was lucky in the case I drank enough I was peeing blood and brown (particles of the stone) for a few days.

Black specs too (blood clot) then on final day I had a few blood clots shoot out alongside some tiny pieces of stone that broke up in toilet bowl. The clots felt weird coming out.

Doc said that was normal and Iā€™ll pee blood a time or two more but Iā€™d be fine afterwards.

They were right.

Now, I make sure I drink a ton of water and lemonade regularly.

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u/Shpander 10d ago

I'm so fortunate my favourite beverage is water

Edit: of course thank you so much for the detailed explanation, I appreciate it. I'm sorry you had to go through that!

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u/Legened255509Druss 10d ago edited 10d ago

I will say this.

It coming out of the kidney is the worse pain imaginable.

If I ever go through this again Iā€™m committing suicide. I ainā€™t doing this again.

If I had a gun, I would have shot myself.

It was like being stabbed, shot, burned, twisted, crushed, frozen, drowned, ripped apart and pain I canā€™t put into words.

It was 7 3/4cms. Edit: correcting to 7 3/4mm. Mixed measurements in my head.

That little stone drove me insane coming out of the kidney.

Drink water.

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u/BiteOutrageous2106 10d ago

Such a profound statement. I hope I never have to experience that.

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u/Earth_Sandwhich 10d ago

I had one that was 4mm and if someone told me I could just shoot myself in the stomach to be pain free from it I would have immediately brutal experience and I didnā€™t know about it until I finally got to the hospital.

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u/Legened255509Druss 10d ago

My friends mom gave birth without painkillers and it nearly killed her, she got all sorts of messed up from it.

She would rather go through that again than another kidney stone.

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u/Shpander 10d ago

You're joking. Your kidney stone was 7.75 cm?! That's bigger than OP's, no??

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u/Legened255509Druss 10d ago

My bad 7 3/4mm. I mixed the two in my head.

They use a sonic thing normally to help break it down if itā€™s bigger than 8mm according to urologist I saw.

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u/Shpander 10d ago

Still though, fuck! Sounds like torture. Bet you wished they sonic'd it

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u/Legened255509Druss 10d ago

Pissing it out wasnā€™t bad.

It coming out of the kidney was hell. It took days for it to come out of my kidney. Once it was out and in urethra tract, it was smooth sailing.

Only liquid leaves the kidney. Itā€™s not made to pass solids.

It is essentially being stabbed constantly as the stone tries passing through.

It is a living hell.

I constantly would pass out from pain to wake up in extreme pain.

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u/Shpander 10d ago

Big oof. I'm sure it was... Character-building

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u/Connormanable 10d ago

Man, the only meds they gave me were hydros and a ā€œgood luckā€ I wish I had something to break it down

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u/Ok-Click-80085 9d ago

you should be drinking milk

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u/CatsOnTheKeyboard 9d ago

Having had urinary issues, I have to say it's really amazing how fast you can get past the initial horror of peeing blood to the point where you just say "Okay, let's see if it clears in a couple hours."

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u/AgentCirceLuna 8d ago

I honestly think Iā€™d sooner die than pass this