Have you ever passed a kidney stone?

Question

How long did the pain last?

Answer 1

It lasted for about 4 hours, I didn't know what the h**l was going on, but the doctor told me I had kidney stones. It wasn't half as bad as having gallstones!!!

Answer 2

yes. it hurt until u pass it then maybe a day later but not long

Answer 3

I passed one in February. The pain started about 2am, and ended about 2pm the same day. Duration of the pain depends on the size of the stone. Mine was about the size of a pencil eraser. It hurt like h**l.  

Answer 4

The kidneys are a pair of organs that are primarily responsible for filtering metabolites and minerals from the circulatory system. These secretions are then passed to the bladder and out of the body as urine. Some of the substances found in urine are able to crystalize, and in a concentrated form these chemicals can precipitate into a solid deposit attached to the kidney walls. These crystals can grow through a process of accretion to form a kidney stone.[1] In medical terminology these deposits are known as renal calculi (Latin renal, "kidney" and calculi, "pebbles").[2]

Renal calculi can vary in size from as small as grains of sand to as large as a golf ball.[3] Kidney stones typically leave the body by passage in the urine stream, and many stones are formed and passed without causing symptoms. If stones grow to sufficient size before passage—on the order of at least 2-3 millimeters—they can cause obstruction of the ureter. The resulting obstruction with dilation or stretching of the upper ureter and renal pelvis as well as spasm of muscle, trying to move the stone, can cause severe episodic pain, most commonly felt in the flank, lower abdomen and groin (a condition called renal colic). Renal colic can be associated with nausea and vomiting due to the embryological association of the kidneys with the intestinal tract. Hematuria (bloody urine) is commonly present due to damage to the lining of the urinary tract.

It causes a lot of pain until all the stones have been removed or excreted.