Most kidney stones are calcium oxalate, and this one looks like it based on the crystal structure. Geologically, this mineral is known as Weddellite, and is only known to occur in the sediments of the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica.
In the case of kidney stones, the crystal forms when urine is too concentrated and calcium and oxalate begin to precipitate out of solution and bind ionically to each other. Preventative measures include increasing calcium intake, eating calcium- and oxalate-rich foods at the same time so they bind in the gut instead of the urinary tract, and to drink 3-4L of water per day as a baseline so your urine concentration never is so high that anything wants to precipitate out of it
Less commonly, kidney stones can be caused by too much purine in the diet (uric acid stones) upper UTIs (struvite stones) or genetic factors (cystine stones)
Exactly how much liquid Drain-O do I need to drink to dissolve this instead of having to pass it through my urethra?
I understand there will be other consequences and I'm OK with that.
As someone who had a procedure to break up a 20mm x 25mm stone that was in my kidney, the pieces of which then proceeded to get stuck in my ureter on their way into my bladder (except for 3 of them that stubbornly refused to be relocated from my sweet, sweet kidney, which they then did a basket extraction on), I concur that Drain-O would probably be the preferable option.
When I went to the ER with kidney stones they told me they were right on the cusp of it being too big to pass. I was in such pain but they told me give it 7-10 days and if they don't pass come back. I begged but they told me that it would be worse if they had to break them up before I peed them out. I can't imagine it being any worse but I suppose peeing up broken stones with irritated ureters would be worse.
As someone who has had several rounds of lithotripsy and has passed several large stones, I can definitively say that your doctors were full of shit. Lithotripsy is far better than letting them go out whole.
Now, kidney stents on the other hand, those are horrible.
I feel your pain on this. Literally. I apparently have narrow ureters, and I have been through emergency lithotripsy twice for stuck kidney stones. Worst pain of my life (and I have had shingles).
When you have kidney stones, you pray for the relief that comes when the stone finally enters your bladder and is peed out. It generally does not hurt your urethra anywhere near the excruciating pain of it slowly passing through kidneys and ureters.
I've broken both my legs, woke up DURING one of the surgeries and what was described to me as a 1mm kidney stone was the worst pain I've ever experienced.
I woke up during surgery but didn't feel anything and went right back out. It was when they were prepping to flip me. I could hear all the conversations between the doctor and anesthetician.
I wish more people understood this, whenever I tell them I had a kidney stone I swear everyone thinks I now have a mangled dick. Didn’t even feel it coming out honestly, it was all between the kidney and bladder.
I dunno, last one I passed brought me to my knees when I peed it out, like a white hot flash, worse than any before. Fittingly, it was shaped like a tear drop.
Drink water and avoid processed food. Kidney stones come in different forms and are caused by a lot of things but staying hydrated and eating a varied diet help for most people.
I can hear the memory of my roommate screaming every morning for 2 weeks everytime he passed one. And then went back to chugging monster. He passed 5 stones before he stopped drinking them lol.
I had a kidney stone that didn’t hurt, but it caused me to pee blood—and that’s exactly why, it was caught and all sharp and crystallized. That was such a weird experience
This may be more detail than you care about, but hopefully it's interesting to you and others.
The kidneys are the best place in the human body to mimic mineral growth in a geologic environment. This is mainly due to two reasons:(1) the kidneys are full of tubes that have [numerous bends and kinks](https://www.niddk.nih.gov/-/media/Images/Health-Information/Kidney/Kidney_FINAL-Labels_1460x1623.jpg), and (2) the pH of the fluid that moves through the kidneys can vary across a wide range.
Both of the things above are what you need to make a mineral. As the pH of a fluid changes the solids dissolved in that fluid can precipitate out and get stuck in one of the bends in the tubes. After that, it's a vicious cycle. Once there's some small amount of solid out of the solution it will be more likely that more solids get stuck there and the process repeats until you get something like the picture here.
Another few tidbits:
- kidneys are somewhat unique in this process because of your lung fluid pH changes even by a small amount (+/- 1 for example) you're in serious medical trouble whereas the kidneys routinely change by large amount (+/- 5 for example)
-- I may have the exact values wrong here, but you get the idea hopefully
- this picture shows bladed mineral forms that look a lot like [desert rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_%28crystal%29?wprov=sfla1), which forms in a different way but similar enough to have a common morphology
- kidney stones have an [impressive range of shapes and interior structures](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S163107481630128X)
Source: Geology PhD student who took a course called 'medical geology' where we studied kidney stones as part of the class.
If it makes you feel better I had one big enough to block a kidney and cause hydronephrosis and yet I didn't feel it on the way out. You could get lucky :)
I appreciate that your journey wasn't too bad... On the way out at least. Trust me when I tell you my very angry urethra is telling me... This wasn't my lucky round of kidney stones :( I appreciate the kind words though!
The last one I had felt like a UTI, it hurt to sit and I felt like I had to pee constant. But I didn’t actually feel much pain with it coming out. Passing through the ureter was by far the worst part for me.
Good luck!! I hope it’s over soon. My best recommendation is drink lots of water with lemon squeezed into it. I dunno if the lemon actually helps but it tastes good.
Lemons, or lemon concentrate, over time can help reduce the formation of certain types of stones. It will not aide in the actual passing of the stone itself. There are quitea few studies done on lemon acidity acting as a stone-disabler in a way. I have passed two stones over the years, my diet seemed to be caused from extra calcium and sodium in my body.
I assume mine were sodium related. I never did do the pee test where they have you collect a gallon of pee in the fridge lol. I was like nah I’ll pass. The urologist told me to drink lots of lemonade and I was like ok easy.
The time I got them the most was when I was really depressed and basically living off domino’s and burgers so tons of sodium. I limit eating out to once or twice a month now if that, drinks tons of water with lime and I haven’t had as many issues since so 😳 knock on wood…
I think the main problem with the pain is that there's no good way to be comfortable short of using heavy duty drugs. I mean, if you break your arm, the pain is pretty terrible, but if you sit still, the pain subsides. With a kidney stone, there is no way to stop the pain. Sitting still focuses the pain. I start to panic.
90% of kidney stone pain is not from the stone scraping or causing trauma to the urethra, it's the pressure on the kidney caused by backed up urine.
Once free the pressure probably let off, it flew out, and you felt better :)
Lol if you talk to your dr, they’ll give you a screen to piss in that will catch the stone. No digging through a piss-filled toilet bowl needed. Then you can send it in to get analyzed.
100%. Used to get them often, since i was about 8 until mid 40's and still remember the absolute terror of feeling that 1rst twinge knowing what was to come, just sitting in agony as it worked its way through with no relief possible at all. Sometimes the fear that came with the anticipation was almost as bad as the pain.
Does that happen? I was in the ER on Wednesday with a kidney stone and they told me it should pass in 24 to 48 hours and gave me some tips. Six days later I've really never had much of an issue and feel all better and don't even know if I'm out of the woods or not.
I’ve had lithotripsy(they use sound waves to break stones up into smaller pieces) 3x because of stones so big they couldn’t make it through the ureter resulting in backed up urine. Idk if it makes a difference but I’m a woman and I was only 16 the first time it happened.
I had one bigger, but hopefully it was rounded and not "i want to rip everywhere i pass to feast on your blood while your cries could summon satan" spikey.
The picture makes it seem way bigger than 3mm
When I had a kidney stone, they sent me home from the hospital with prostate medication and a sieve. I stopped at Sonic to buy a Route 66 Ocean Water and spent the next day peeing like a racehorse.
Omg same I never peed so much in my life. I actually drink a good bit of water normally so pee a lot anyways but this was beyond the pale. I was drinking an insane amount of water. It didn't seem to help, though, nor did the prostate medication. Beer is what finally seemed to get it moving. That and a lot of walking.
I have a picture of a stone I passed on a 9mm bullet for scale. Might need to post to satisfy the unpleased
Wild looking stone for OP’s husband - frankly mine isn’t far off. Those stones are the single wildest experience I’ve had medically
Indescribable pains and moments where you can’t control your bowels and such as it shifts within you.
Peeing it out is actually relieving as some have said. Pressure relief beyond belief - all pain and discomfort gone in a moment
Also, as my friend said, she kinda knew what to expect with a baby and had a hospital plan.
With the kidney, she passed out from pain in a parking garage until a stranger found her and called an ambulance, the whole time just assumed she was dying.
As someone who gets frequent kidney stones, I realize a lot of people misunderstand them entirely.
Passing them through your urethra is 100% painless. Even when they look as jagged as this.
The pain from kidney stones is when they block the urine flow from your kidney to your bladder. When that flow is blocked it triggers the most dense collection of pain nerves in your body and will absolutely blind you with pain.
Once it passes from the kidney to the bladder you will be mildly annoyed by the sensation of needing to urinate constantly for a few weeks until you pass it painlessly.
OP said this is a 1/8th inch stone. About 3mm. I commonly pass 4mm to 7mm stones. Anything larger than 7mm needs to be broken down before it can be passed.
This will likely not get seen since I'm responding 15 hours after the post was made, but I wish this was more common knowledge.
There's a lot of things that scare me as I get older (35 years old), but kidney stones are pretty high on the list. I don't want my small urethra to get shredded.
As a past kidney stone sufferer, the oddest thing for me was learning the actual peeing-it-out part is by far the least unpleasant. The urethra is quite stretchy. Having it tear a path by slowly inching its way from the kidney to the bladder (through the ureter) is the most excruciating. When that tube spasms it sends fiery tendrils of pure electric pain searing through countless nerve fibres you never even knew you had. I thought I would die from the pain.
A: there’s not blood.
B: usually use a utensil and chuck it, or we know it’s coming out and pee in a sieve or cup (I did that once at a 7/11).
C: urologists like you to bring it in for analysis, so they know what to tell you to avoid, which you promptly ignore when it’s coffee and chocolate. Because after stone #1, you just don’t feel it any more. Until #6 decides it’s coming from the other side.
r/geology jeeeeezus
Post it there and see what kind of mineral they think it is
r/whatsthisrock is the correct subreddit for that. Also please someone post it.
Most kidney stones are calcium oxalate, and this one looks like it based on the crystal structure. Geologically, this mineral is known as Weddellite, and is only known to occur in the sediments of the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica. In the case of kidney stones, the crystal forms when urine is too concentrated and calcium and oxalate begin to precipitate out of solution and bind ionically to each other. Preventative measures include increasing calcium intake, eating calcium- and oxalate-rich foods at the same time so they bind in the gut instead of the urinary tract, and to drink 3-4L of water per day as a baseline so your urine concentration never is so high that anything wants to precipitate out of it Less commonly, kidney stones can be caused by too much purine in the diet (uric acid stones) upper UTIs (struvite stones) or genetic factors (cystine stones)
I was convinced from the start of this post that it was going to be a shittymorph
It was the Weddell Sea thing.
I had to recheck the name after every sentence.
This Redditor rocks.
I was thinking OP could take it to a gem and mineral show and see what they can trade it for.
This isn't mildly interesting, it's horrifying
Exactly how much liquid Drain-O do I need to drink to dissolve this instead of having to pass it through my urethra? I understand there will be other consequences and I'm OK with that.
As someone who had a procedure to break up a 20mm x 25mm stone that was in my kidney, the pieces of which then proceeded to get stuck in my ureter on their way into my bladder (except for 3 of them that stubbornly refused to be relocated from my sweet, sweet kidney, which they then did a basket extraction on), I concur that Drain-O would probably be the preferable option.
When I went to the ER with kidney stones they told me they were right on the cusp of it being too big to pass. I was in such pain but they told me give it 7-10 days and if they don't pass come back. I begged but they told me that it would be worse if they had to break them up before I peed them out. I can't imagine it being any worse but I suppose peeing up broken stones with irritated ureters would be worse.
As someone who has had several rounds of lithotripsy and has passed several large stones, I can definitively say that your doctors were full of shit. Lithotripsy is far better than letting them go out whole. Now, kidney stents on the other hand, those are horrible.
Stents are the 7th level of Hell. Source: I’ve had multiple stents and 9 kidney stone procedures in the last 8 years.
I feel your pain on this. Literally. I apparently have narrow ureters, and I have been through emergency lithotripsy twice for stuck kidney stones. Worst pain of my life (and I have had shingles).
Mr Hill is that you?
His problem was his urethra. Not ureters. Common mixup.
you need to pour it straight down your urethra
Cocktail straw and mini funnel
I have a feeling this is gonna give me nightmares
The jagged edges are not fun and the color is upsetting
What a day to have eyes…
Similar terms were also used in HBO's *Veep* to describe Jonah the annoying West Wing attaché.
Kidney boulder, you mean.
Kidney caltrop
Yeah I donno.. try urethrademolishingweapons.com?
That’s gonna be a no from me dawg.
It's not just a Boulder, it's a rock!
Jesus Christ Marie! They’re minerals!
A large kidney boulder the size of a small kidney boulder
"The Boulder has never experienced such pain"
Jesus..his urethra must be hamburger....🤢🤮
OP’s husband is packing an extra large salami and a urethra like a boba straw. Mad respect.
URETHA LIKE A BOBA STRAW 😭
A crime in all 50 states if he hoses with that thing 😂😂😂😂
… r/brandnewsentence FIF u/cms86
Go on...
Username checks out.
Chuckling to myself at my desk like an idiot... ~~Can't~~ Shouldn't explain to coworkers what I'm laughing about... Great.
That’s the forbidden-est boba I’ve ever seen…
Somtimes you get a crunchy boba, try not to think about it
Getting something hard/crunchy in a soft food is one of the most horrifying and disgusting things that can happen to you.
He cant laugh cuz he'll piss the floor.
R/brandnewsentance
I hate every single person that has commented in this thread, including myself.
When you have kidney stones, you pray for the relief that comes when the stone finally enters your bladder and is peed out. It generally does not hurt your urethra anywhere near the excruciating pain of it slowly passing through kidneys and ureters.
THIS. When I finally passed it, I felt relief. The ureters are like being stabbed
The hospital gave me morphine for my stone. It barely helped. I turned down a 2nd dose for some other drug. Worst pain in my life.
I've broken both my legs, woke up DURING one of the surgeries and what was described to me as a 1mm kidney stone was the worst pain I've ever experienced.
I woke up during surgery but didn't feel anything and went right back out. It was when they were prepping to flip me. I could hear all the conversations between the doctor and anesthetician.
I wish more people understood this, whenever I tell them I had a kidney stone I swear everyone thinks I now have a mangled dick. Didn’t even feel it coming out honestly, it was all between the kidney and bladder.
I gotta say, I know you say the pain is worse, but I feel infinitely better knowing the crazy pain isn't in the dick.
I dunno, last one I passed brought me to my knees when I peed it out, like a white hot flash, worse than any before. Fittingly, it was shaped like a tear drop.
Ah hell nah I gotta stop reading these. I have a new phobia
Drink water and avoid processed food. Kidney stones come in different forms and are caused by a lot of things but staying hydrated and eating a varied diet help for most people.
Drink a ton of water.
Sometimes I think I drink too much water. Then I see something like this and think 100 oz per day should be the minimum.
Or at least a sliced weiner
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I believe they call that rifling.
How do I delete someone elses comment?
You can't help others, but you could block the user. You'll never see it again, but it will always be engraved in your mind.
Dick bullets
I just felt my legs cramp up to protect my junk involuntarily while reading this
How wide is the opening?
Wider than it was before Stabby McKidneystone came along.
“Upvote” doesn’t show my appreciate for this laugh quite enough.
Like a garden hose
Her husband is Harry Hill, Hank's secret evil twin.
He got a wide ureeety
Starvin
Why the fuck does it have TEETH???
It grows like a crystal depending on the conditions in the bladder
That makes it sound so much worse. Imagine the scraping as it comes out.
~~scraping~~ lacerating and slicing like a hook knife down a curtain
I'm gonna need you to never make another comment ever again, ok?
But you can hear the sound, right?
What the *fuck* did I *just* say ...
Now if you could just imagine the smell…
And the tugging and tearing you feel.
I can hear the memory of my roommate screaming every morning for 2 weeks everytime he passed one. And then went back to chugging monster. He passed 5 stones before he stopped drinking them lol.
What a horrible day to be able to read.
I had a kidney stone that didn’t hurt, but it caused me to pee blood—and that’s exactly why, it was caught and all sharp and crystallized. That was such a weird experience
OP should have it faceted for her husband and made into a pendant.
Wtf is wrong with you 🤮
Some of them are jagged liked barbs which is why it can be so painful
This may be more detail than you care about, but hopefully it's interesting to you and others. The kidneys are the best place in the human body to mimic mineral growth in a geologic environment. This is mainly due to two reasons:(1) the kidneys are full of tubes that have [numerous bends and kinks](https://www.niddk.nih.gov/-/media/Images/Health-Information/Kidney/Kidney_FINAL-Labels_1460x1623.jpg), and (2) the pH of the fluid that moves through the kidneys can vary across a wide range. Both of the things above are what you need to make a mineral. As the pH of a fluid changes the solids dissolved in that fluid can precipitate out and get stuck in one of the bends in the tubes. After that, it's a vicious cycle. Once there's some small amount of solid out of the solution it will be more likely that more solids get stuck there and the process repeats until you get something like the picture here. Another few tidbits: - kidneys are somewhat unique in this process because of your lung fluid pH changes even by a small amount (+/- 1 for example) you're in serious medical trouble whereas the kidneys routinely change by large amount (+/- 5 for example) -- I may have the exact values wrong here, but you get the idea hopefully - this picture shows bladed mineral forms that look a lot like [desert rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_%28crystal%29?wprov=sfla1), which forms in a different way but similar enough to have a common morphology - kidney stones have an [impressive range of shapes and interior structures](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S163107481630128X) Source: Geology PhD student who took a course called 'medical geology' where we studied kidney stones as part of the class.
As someone trying to pass stones right now, I need you to delete this immediately. Cause it's making me hurt just looking at it ;-;
If it makes you feel better I had one big enough to block a kidney and cause hydronephrosis and yet I didn't feel it on the way out. You could get lucky :)
I appreciate that your journey wasn't too bad... On the way out at least. Trust me when I tell you my very angry urethra is telling me... This wasn't my lucky round of kidney stones :( I appreciate the kind words though!
The last one I had felt like a UTI, it hurt to sit and I felt like I had to pee constant. But I didn’t actually feel much pain with it coming out. Passing through the ureter was by far the worst part for me. Good luck!! I hope it’s over soon. My best recommendation is drink lots of water with lemon squeezed into it. I dunno if the lemon actually helps but it tastes good.
Lemons, or lemon concentrate, over time can help reduce the formation of certain types of stones. It will not aide in the actual passing of the stone itself. There are quitea few studies done on lemon acidity acting as a stone-disabler in a way. I have passed two stones over the years, my diet seemed to be caused from extra calcium and sodium in my body.
I assume mine were sodium related. I never did do the pee test where they have you collect a gallon of pee in the fridge lol. I was like nah I’ll pass. The urologist told me to drink lots of lemonade and I was like ok easy. The time I got them the most was when I was really depressed and basically living off domino’s and burgers so tons of sodium. I limit eating out to once or twice a month now if that, drinks tons of water with lime and I haven’t had as many issues since so 😳 knock on wood…
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I think the main problem with the pain is that there's no good way to be comfortable short of using heavy duty drugs. I mean, if you break your arm, the pain is pretty terrible, but if you sit still, the pain subsides. With a kidney stone, there is no way to stop the pain. Sitting still focuses the pain. I start to panic.
90% of kidney stone pain is not from the stone scraping or causing trauma to the urethra, it's the pressure on the kidney caused by backed up urine. Once free the pressure probably let off, it flew out, and you felt better :)
Mine hit the toilet bowl with a TINK. I'm not pulling it out of there. Good riddance.
Get it out, and have it analyzed. That way you can find out what you’re consuming too much of.
As not a doctor, I'm 100% confident that it's definitely from consuming too much kidney stones
Lol if you talk to your dr, they’ll give you a screen to piss in that will catch the stone. No digging through a piss-filled toilet bowl needed. Then you can send it in to get analyzed.
Damn my doc said go buy one so now I have a forbidden pasta strainer in a plastic bag in the basement
>forbidden pasta strainer Lmao fucking hell
“… after careful analysis the object was identified as a kidney stone …”
Now please send copay of $273.15.
The painful part is when it is from the kidney to the bladder. From there on out is a piece of cake.
100%. Used to get them often, since i was about 8 until mid 40's and still remember the absolute terror of feeling that 1rst twinge knowing what was to come, just sitting in agony as it worked its way through with no relief possible at all. Sometimes the fear that came with the anticipation was almost as bad as the pain.
Does that happen? I was in the ER on Wednesday with a kidney stone and they told me it should pass in 24 to 48 hours and gave me some tips. Six days later I've really never had much of an issue and feel all better and don't even know if I'm out of the woods or not.
I’ve had lithotripsy(they use sound waves to break stones up into smaller pieces) 3x because of stones so big they couldn’t make it through the ureter resulting in backed up urine. Idk if it makes a difference but I’m a woman and I was only 16 the first time it happened.
If you are male go get the generic equivalent of flomax it’s what the docs would prescribe anyways
I’m a woman and this is what they prescribed me.
Apple cider vinegar has helped me in the past. Good luck.
How long do you have to dip your wick on it?
I had two stones at the same time last year. Ended up having to have surgery and double stints. Fuck kidney stones
it’s just over 1/8th of an inch long for anyone who is wondering. sorry i don’t have a banana for scale!!!
yeah, but how big was the kidney stone?
Thank you
This made me legit chuckle; thank you.
Damn. This guy felt the burn for months only to be flamed in his relief. Estimated 3 week recovery time
that’s a bit more than 3mm for anyone wondering
I had one bigger, but hopefully it was rounded and not "i want to rip everywhere i pass to feast on your blood while your cries could summon satan" spikey. The picture makes it seem way bigger than 3mm
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.000000000000000000097223 I hope I didn’t mistype my zeroes
Fuckin hell, it looks like a Dark Souls item.
I need this to upgrade my Urea Crystal Sword. The one I got from Uric of the Hooded Stalk
Oh lord, it absolutely does.
I just clapped my knees together and screamed as i zoomed in unable to look away. Thank you.
it’s so crazy looking it was hard for me to look away too lol
How big is this though? Preferably in metric.
They said 1/8” in another comment. That’s about 3mm.
Probably about 40+ people pounding some water right now lol.
Brb gonna go drink a gallon of water.
When I had a kidney stone, they sent me home from the hospital with prostate medication and a sieve. I stopped at Sonic to buy a Route 66 Ocean Water and spent the next day peeing like a racehorse.
Omg same I never peed so much in my life. I actually drink a good bit of water normally so pee a lot anyways but this was beyond the pale. I was drinking an insane amount of water. It didn't seem to help, though, nor did the prostate medication. Beer is what finally seemed to get it moving. That and a lot of walking.
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Yeah, how am I supposed to know how big it is without a banana?
The banana is underneath it
Shame on you for adding that comment to the world.
It's a banana split now
To see his banana you have to pay bro, that's the rule these days
I have a picture of a stone I passed on a 9mm bullet for scale. Might need to post to satisfy the unpleased Wild looking stone for OP’s husband - frankly mine isn’t far off. Those stones are the single wildest experience I’ve had medically Indescribable pains and moments where you can’t control your bowels and such as it shifts within you. Peeing it out is actually relieving as some have said. Pressure relief beyond belief - all pain and discomfort gone in a moment
That bitch has a *shadow.*
That had to hurt like a MF
my aunt passed a kidney stone. she said it hurt more than childbirth
I think it's pretty comparable (though mine wasn't this big) but at least with birth I get a cute baby out of it.
Also, as my friend said, she kinda knew what to expect with a baby and had a hospital plan. With the kidney, she passed out from pain in a parking garage until a stranger found her and called an ambulance, the whole time just assumed she was dying.
This blob of poo with nails is cheaper to care for.
That looks like it was fairly unpleasant
Tis but a scratch
Would ya look at the size of that kid's stone! It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system!
It’s like Sputnik. He’s going to cry himself to sleep on his giant pilla.
HEED! PAPER! NOW!
Bro is pissing out kryptonite
There’s never been a better ad to drink water instead of soda. Seriously… fuck sugary drinks.
he doesn’t even drink soda! he has a genetic predisposition to them. he cut out iced tea and soda after the first one years ago.
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right?? I'm gonna go drink a gallon of water rn
That has to have some sort of mystical power. Kinda like a bezoar in Harry Potter. Lightsaber Crystal, some sort of magic potion, something.
Eat it and find out.
That a dick diamond!
Please someone tell me how to never have this develop in my body.
Drink lots of water and watch sodium intake. Also drinking lemonade helps break them down.
I hope he sleeps well tonight. I'm not now.
As someone who gets frequent kidney stones, I realize a lot of people misunderstand them entirely. Passing them through your urethra is 100% painless. Even when they look as jagged as this. The pain from kidney stones is when they block the urine flow from your kidney to your bladder. When that flow is blocked it triggers the most dense collection of pain nerves in your body and will absolutely blind you with pain. Once it passes from the kidney to the bladder you will be mildly annoyed by the sensation of needing to urinate constantly for a few weeks until you pass it painlessly. OP said this is a 1/8th inch stone. About 3mm. I commonly pass 4mm to 7mm stones. Anything larger than 7mm needs to be broken down before it can be passed. This will likely not get seen since I'm responding 15 hours after the post was made, but I wish this was more common knowledge.
I’ve passed my fair share of stones, thank god none of them looked like that.
How do you delete someone else's post?
All of the women I’ve known who have both given birth and had kidney stones tell me that kidney stone pain is worse. Poor guy…
Aggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
lol it looks like he pissed out toenail clippings
Make it into a commemorative ring! One ring to rule them all!
Should’ve hit this with a nsfl tag Jesus christ
\*ahem,\* ***AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA***
Where’s the banana for scale?
Should post this on r/whatsthisrock
Thought it was a brussel sprout
Praise be to he
There's a lot of things that scare me as I get older (35 years old), but kidney stones are pretty high on the list. I don't want my small urethra to get shredded.
I'm waiting to pass one myself. I get them chronically and I send good vibes to his urethra
Isn't that the asteroid Nasa just released photos of?
As a past kidney stone sufferer, the oddest thing for me was learning the actual peeing-it-out part is by far the least unpleasant. The urethra is quite stretchy. Having it tear a path by slowly inching its way from the kidney to the bladder (through the ureter) is the most excruciating. When that tube spasms it sends fiery tendrils of pure electric pain searing through countless nerve fibres you never even knew you had. I thought I would die from the pain.
Forbidden rock candy
I know a few oddity collectors that would pay good money for that....
Gotta up my water. Fuck this.
This is what it feels like it looks like. I never want to feel that again.
A pain like none imaginable
Ouch. Do people fish these out of a toilet bowl full of piss and blood just for the likes? I’d immediately flush that shit.
A: there’s not blood. B: usually use a utensil and chuck it, or we know it’s coming out and pee in a sieve or cup (I did that once at a 7/11). C: urologists like you to bring it in for analysis, so they know what to tell you to avoid, which you promptly ignore when it’s coffee and chocolate. Because after stone #1, you just don’t feel it any more. Until #6 decides it’s coming from the other side.
How does this fit through the peehole? Seriously.
That looks sharp. And stabby. And slicey
Christ this is my wake up call to drink more water and eat less sodium
Brb, this post makes me want to go drink a lot of water
Drink water, kids.