The Most PAINFUL Thing a Human Can Experience?? | Kidney Stones 

Hey everyone! I just want to be super clear about something towards the end of the video - it's not that spinach, potatoes and beans should be avoided by all individuals at all times (or that they're unhealthy). The issue is that once someone has a kidney stone, the likelihood of them developing another stone within the next few years is EXTREMELY high. It's these individuals that will need to make the most drastic dietary changes. For most everyone else, diets high in citrate and that include a significant water intake are usually seen to be a best practice. As always though, consult your doctor and find the best path forward for you. Thanks!

Well I’ve never had a kidney stone and this comment section makes me wanna do literally everything I can to avoid getting one

Alternate title: Man scares you into keeping hydrated

I had a kidney stone in 2019. As a man, I am extremely reluctant to complain about pain, but I ended up in the ER, and after the nurses waited around for a while, I broke down and started SHOUTING from the room in which they had left me, all the way out to the nurses' station/waiting room "Help! Help! Help!" I almost couldn't form multi-word sentences. All social restraint was gone. The nurse said my eyes were rolling around in my head and she thought I was going to pass out at any moment, so THEN they took me seriously, and my 1.3 cm stone was removed surgically, thank God.

I had my first kidney stone in 2014 and it woke me up out of a dead sleep and I was SCREAMING! If you can imagine being stabbed in them kidney with a red hot jagged spike, then it being twisted over and over, you KINDA get the idea. I thought I was dying and got no relief until I begged the ER for meds to make it stop. Worst pain I’ve ever experienced and I’ve had it twice.

“Noo getting kicked in the groin is more painful!” “Noo birth is!” Kidney stones: “Let me introduce myself.”

It feels like being stabbed with a hot knife. Then, every twenty minutes someone comes and twists it. This could go on for several hours or even days. You can’t sit up because it hurts, so you try to stand but that hurts. You can’t lie down because that hurts too so you just kneel over some cushions or curl up on the floor. Then the pain is so intense, you just puke for what seems like an hour until there’s absolutely nothing left. You can’t eat, sleep, or even drink a little water for quite some time. Best thing to do is get a heating pad and eventually you will get so exhausted, you’ll pass out for a brief respite between the stabbing pains.

My grandpa had kidney stones a few months ago. He is 86 years old and he is a colonel of the air force, i’ve never seen him asking for help, in pain or complaining. As far as i can remember under all circumstances he preserved a strong posture and never asked for help. When he got kidney stones it was the first time that he desperately called for help during the night and my grandma said that he wept in the hospital, and she said it was the first time of that happening. Stay safe friends

Let me give you a tip! I dealt with a kidney stone in September of 2022 and it was the worst pain I ever experienced. Not because it’s unbearable, but because it’s never ending. It’s a constant flow of horrible pain. During the first night of dealing with the stone I suffered greatly. I couldn’t sleep or even sit still without the horrible pain making me worried that I may be possibly dying. I would easy get dizzy and light headed because of how extreme the pain is. Overtime I found a home remedy. Whenever the pain would come back and I could tolerate it no longer, I would step into the shower for about 20 minutes and let the hot water just hit my kidney. By that time my kidney would start numbing and I would no longer feel the pain. When I was good, I would go lay down and try to sleep. When the pain came back and I would wake up in the middle of the night, I would do the same thing. Shower, numb, sleep. Keep doing this over and over and trust me, it will make your experience a lot easier!

I had a teacher who had kidney stones. Occasionally they'd hurt him during class and he'd lean on his desk, head down, teeth clenched and say: "Kids, drink your water! Please, drink your water!!"

I would rather give birth to a coffee table then to have another kidney stone

What a wonderful, young man who explains everything with such enthusiasm. We need more like him.

Had kidney stones when I was 10. My grandma was in the hospital having her hip replaced. She was a floor above me and said with certainty that she heard my screams. I’m 42 now, and have since had bone marrow biopsies, but passing those stones will be something I remember forever.

I passed a kidney stone when I was 9 months pregnant. The pain was so bad I thought I was in labor and went to the hospital. Luckily it passed and they sent me home. 5 days later I delivered my son and I can say indefinitely the kidney stone pain was much worse.

This video made me want to drink more water immediately

My wife just went through this. We have three kids--two of them twins. Her exact words about the kidney stone pain was "I've had twins and thought that hurt but this [kidney stone] is a whole different level of pain!"

I have had kidney stones. They hurt. A lot. BUT! There is a long way from kidney stone pain to the worst pain I have experienced. I won't go into it. I just want to tell you to be kind to people in pain. You have No Idea how bad it is for them. Alleviate their suffering as best as you can, and do it with as much compassion as you can muster. I remember a nurse running back and forth for hot towels for half her shift and I still tear up from gratitude for that relief. My heros are the ones who relieve my pain and do even basic care like bringing me an orange or any silly little things ... I am on palliative care for my pain.

"the pain is subjective". On a scale of 1-10, it starts out as an 11 and then subjective kicks in.

I just love how his back ground is a bunch of dead bodies.

This definitely hurts more than childbirth. 100% it’s the worst thing a human can go through aside from purposeful torture. The sweat, the loss of limb control, the vomiting, the loss of bladder and bowl control…never have I thought I was dying the way I did that day. I’ve also passed a premature pregnancy and it was painful too, throwing up, shaking, shitting, bleeding, but nothing compared to the kidney stone. Ibuprofen worked for passing the fetus but I wouldn’t stop involuntarily shaking until they gave me morphine to the vein for the kidney. I thought my spine had somehow broken and I was genuinely afraid I wouldn’t be able to walk again. My husband and I have both had them so thankfully someone near me understood.

We really should be so grateful 🙏 when our bodies are working well. And grateful to the donors who are helping us understand our bodies. Thank you !

"we're gonna see why they hurt so much" you're pissing sharp rocks thats why they hurt so much

I literally crawled into the ER because of kidney stones. That pain is no joke.

My dad had kidney stones, and I remember the doctor saying that passing a kidney stone is the nearest thing a man can experience to the pain of childbirth.

I have surgery Monday for a kidney stone. I am looking forward to relief but terrified too. Thank you for this explanation

Ive had kindey stones multiple times, I remember the first time, it was 8 years ago, I was 12. Me and my parents were watching a movie at night thats when I first started feeling a kind of unexplainable pain, I thought it was my back but it wasnt, I hid the pain away until the morning. I woke up in the biggest pain I will ever experience. I threw up 17 times that day because of the pain. After throwing up 12 times, the last 5 times were just blood because I didnt have anything else to throw up. We were of course at the hospital for a few days and I going to the cafeteria with my mom. I saw a kid at my age that had cancer. That child died a few days later... I will never forget the pain of the kidney stones, but at the same time... I will never ever explain how thankful I was to have ONLY kidney stones...

My mom has these right now and she’s going to get her surgery soon. Wish her luck.

I passed one a few months back that stuck with me for 3 weeks. Grown man and it made me AND my wife cry. I actually thought about dying a few times as the pain was just all consuming. On one of the rides to the hospital I just started wailing and talking about dying and my wife had a mental breakdown too. It was 1mm in size. If you get one, please find out what caused it, and if you haven't had one, please eat foods responsibly.

I passed a kidney stone last year. The amount of suffering these things can cause is unbelievable. I can't put it into words Stay hydrated, save yourself the pain.

The feeling of relief when it passes is incredible. I was nauseous, and doubled over in pain with a stone for hours. When it moved on, the pain and nausea disappeared in minutes. The euphoria of going from one exteme to another cannot be decribed !!!

My dad has passed two kidney stones and holy shit seeing my extremely tough mexican dad scream out in painful crys still is the scariest thing i've ever witnessed.

Fantastic explanation. First time it happened, I didn't know I had a stone. One minute I was out socialising, next thing I thought I was dying. You won't be able to sit in a ER waiting area, you'll be pacing like a mad person - this is a classic kidney stone sign, you can't stay still. The next hours were a blur. You're sweating, vomiting, totally out of your body. It took 4 morphine shots to get the pain down a tiny notch. A scan showed I had 7 more stones. Eventually had a uteroscopy to get them out - 4+ hours of surgery. In my case, it's genetic and the shape of my kidneys. Btw peeing out the stone is a relief, and that part doesn't hurt at all, it's when they're stuck at the top near your kidney that you'll be begging for mercy.

I've not had kidney stones, but I had gallbladder stones. If you could do a video on that, including what they do during the surgery to the bile duct etc, I'd be very grateful, and so interested.

This happened to me and it was so painful that I just made my peace. I thought it was over...

I think it's safe to say that a lot of us started drinking more water after watching this.

I've never had kidney stones, but I have had a burst appendix and lived with arthritis most of my life, so the idea that it could be even worse than those two is scary as hell. 😮

Two years ago, late August, I woke up one morning, at around 5 am I believe, feeling a sharp pain on the left side of my abdomen. At first I thought it might be food poisoning. Oh, I wish it were. I lied down awake in the bed for a bit and then decided to go to the bathroom. I didn't feel like pooping or vomitting so I returned to the bed with a bucket just in case I wanted to throw up. While trying to relax in bed, the pain got worse, I sat at the side of the bed and then got on my knees on the floor, trying to find a more comfortable position to relieve the pain, laying my upper body against the mattress. The pain had literally folded me in half. It was still early, around 6. I decided to get up, and go to the local health center. I was in no condition to drive, and it wasn't particularly far, like 600 meters from my house. I just left the house wearing whatever I was sleeping in and some sandals (summer). Well, let me tell you, I barely walked like 50 meters out of the house, when I had to collapse on the sidewalk from the pain. I didn't have my phone with me, for fear of losing it under these conditions. Luckily, someone happened to pass by that knew who I am, they immediately tried to get an ambulance to pick me up, but sadly, there was no ambulance available. I gave them my parents number to call them and remember, it was still like 6:15 AM, so my parents were still in bed. They woke up, got the car and drove for 15 minutes to get to me. I was still lying on the sidewalk on one side. I couldn't really stand up, at least not for more than a few seconds. When they arrived, I managed to get in the front seat and we promptly got to the health center. I threw up once while in the hospital bed, but it was a lot, I overfilled the bowl the nurse was holding, it was real bad. At some point while there, I was given a strong painkiller which slowly made it easier to relax and eventually get up. I went to the toilet for a urine sample that had a pink tint, (surprise, surprise, there was blood in there). The doctor then sent me to have an ultrasound of the general abdominal area, which didn't show any kidney stones or any problems with my bladder, just an irritation in a specific area of the kidney, where the stone was, the ultrasound doctor assumed. I went back to the doctor at the health center, and she told me that I need to see a urologist. That led to some of the worst months of my life so far. I saw the urologist, he told me I need to go get a CT scan for my upper abdominal area. The CT scan mentioned something around 13mm in diameter in my left kidney and proposed I have an MRI scan in that kidney to examine that finding better. Fast forward 1 month after the CT scan, I get the MRI scan and send the results (with the data disc) to my doctor who is in a different city, he looks at them with his team of experts and tells me it's like 99% a cyst. But then, he tells me I should go do a cellular urine test to be more safe. I had to go to a different place and stay at a hotel to give them the required samples at the hospital, because I couldn't do this test where I live. Anyway, after that stressful 3 days, and another 10 days of waiting for the results, I was relieved to get a negative result in terms of malignancies. So after that, the urologist told me I should try to relax and forget about it, because there's nothing more I can do, in terms of tests, other than possibly do a scan every year or so, to check if anything has changed. Last time I did an ultrasound, the doctor told me he can barely make out something around 14mm in diameter and according to his expertise in the field of kidney ultrasounds, he said it is most likely something called a... let's say... fatty bloodvessel or something (sorry, we are not English speakers so I tried to translate it directly) and that it's a benign formation. The good news is there were no kidney stones and the kidney looks fine, same for the bladder. He also told me I should stop worrying too much so I've been trying to do my best to live more carefree. The only thing I've changed about my diet is drinking plenty of bottled water. In the past I used to drink exclusively tap water, which was probably my downfall. I just hope I haven't done any major damage to my kidneys. And yes, my father had issues with kidney stones but ever since he started drinking exclusively bottled water, he hasn't had an episode for more than 20 years now. P.S: It's defintely the worst pain I've experienced so far.

My husband had kidney stones, it was the worst pain he’s ever experienced. He named two of the biggest ones Bertha and fang.

A bottle of water literally just spawned in my hands after this video

Just found your channel a few weeks ago, and man, it is INCREDIBLE! Thanks so much for putting so much excellent information out there for us totally free. Such an incredible resource! Keep up the great work!

I’ve had kidney stones…unbelievable pain. When in the hospital, I was next to an ex Israeli soldier who told me he had once had kidney stones, he had also had been shot two times in military service. He told me he would rather get shot than have kidney stones.

I had a kidney stone a few years ago, thought I was literally dying. I thought at first it was a massive painful shit, but after I realized I couldn't crap, I collapsed on the bathroom floor in pain. I then told my job at the time that I had to leave. On my way back home I stopped at about ten restrooms thinking I had massive poop pains but yet nothing helped and it felt like my intestines were melting. I then went back home and after an hour of severe pain I called a friend to drive me to a hospital as I thought I was about to die. I then was puking while in the emergency room from the pain and then after a couple of hours I pissed it out and almost immediately the pain went away. Ive had blood clots, and had them slice into my leg without any painkillers or being asleep for them to pump in anticoagulant into my veins and pushing the tube up my deep veins in my leg (because of the severity of my condition they had to operate on me without putting me to sleep and with no painkillers, because it would have lowered my heart rate too much). Anyways, the kidney stone hurt worse then them slicing into my veins and shoving shit up them. But the worst pain was afterwards when I got a 20k medical bill for them doing nothing and just pissing out the kidney stone for being in the emergency room for three hours, yay America!

Never had a kidney stone. This has fucking terrified me.

I had one at age 31 in 1992. I've always had severe menstrual cramps but this pain was different...it was towards my back. I went to the emergency room at 1:00 a.m. it was just down the street, Piedmont in Atlanta. The stone had passed and later I was released. I've always been very healthy. Women were told to take Rolaids for extra calcium. So there you have it. That was 30 years ago.

I had one out of nowhere and I can confirm the pain. Suffered some injuries over time as an athlete but I’ve never felt pain like that. I crawled on my knees on my way to the ER, in tears and could barely talk. Doctor told me it’s the “equivalent to child birth”.

I’d rather shit broken glass than ever have to piss out a kidney stone. I think I’d just rather get all of them surgically removed

I must say, I know for a fact that my right kidney is bigger than my left one. Because my left kidney is gone! Lol! Donated it to my Mom in Oct.99’! Sign your drivers license people. Gave my Mom another 14 years off the dialysis machines. Wouldn’t change a thing. Great show.

When I was 16 I was diagnosed with infantile ureters. This meant the tube from my kidneys to my bladder did not grow. They remained very small. This caused my body to retain waste. This caused a build up of scar tissue and kidney stones. I was really sick. My urologist said they would have removed this kidney but the other kidney was damaged as well. Both kidneys weren’t working as well as one normal person’s kidney. I had numerous surgeries to correct the problem and remove kidney stones. After the first surgery my doctor presented me with a specimen cup with about twenty stones.

From all the videos that I have seen yours were the more informative... Thanks for sharing

I still can't get over that most RU-vidrs have a play button or something in the background, but my dude over here just has three bodies.

When my cousin was 8 months pregnant, she thought she was going into early labor, but it turned out her excruciating pain was from kidney stones. When she gave birth 3 weeks after passing her stones, we all asked her what was more painful, natural childbirth, or kidney stones, (since she experienced both so close to eachother) and she said hands down, kidney stones are worse!

I must say that this is a very impressive video. The way you explained everything so that it can be clearly understood is amazing. You are an amazing teacher. I truly learned a lot & will be sharing this video so that others can educate themselves. Thank you so very much! God bless you! I definitely subscribed as I look forward to learning more from you! 🙏🏽🎯

Excellent work! Well done and thank you 🙏🏼

i just drank a bottle of water after watching this video 🤣

My kidney stone was, according to the doctor, just 1,5 milimeters in diameter. But I was still shaking in pain. Drenched in sweat, screaming and vomiting at the same time while a nurse was shooting pain killers into my lower back. Peeing blood, vomiting any water I drank, so an IV had to be put in. Limping on the left leg because of the stone after the worst had passed and then about 2 weeks of constant pain suppressed by chewing pain killers. Without a doubt the most all encompassing horrific pain I have ever experienced to this day. And yes.. 1,5 milimeters diameter was all it took for me..

Had extreme pain in my right abdomen and diagnosed with a 1.6 cm stone. The first procedure installed a stent and the next procedure will use a laser to break up the stone. I'm looking forward to getting back to normal. Plan to drink a lot more water and modify my diet to prevent forming more stones in the future. This video was very informative!

great guys. I have recently found out about my kidney stone and watching this video and reading the comments really is very encouraging. So I haven't had any symptoms yet but now I know what is going to happen to me. It's worse than giving birth to 6 children and possibly the worst pain a human being can experience. Wise choice of words! Thankyou 😂

this morning i passed my first kidney stone. i would listen to people tell me how bad they hurt in the past, so i had an idea in my head of what i thought it would be like if it ever happened to me. let me tell you, I HAD NO IDEA!! it was literally the most painful thing i have ever felt in my life. the pain was so intense that i began to sweat and vomit. i was crawling on my bathroom floor, thought i was honestly dying. i was in that condition for a little over 4 hours until it finally passed. i pray i never have to go through that again.

anyone else just feel so fragile when watching anatomy videos?

Best description and explanation video on this topic

I've had a highly abnormal number of kidney stones, including one that got STUCK and needed lithotripsy (but not before I developed a gnarly kidney infection). I personally think they can be akin to really, REALLY bad tooth pain. I've also had a corneal ulcer that almost cost me vision in my left eye. Kidney stones are *shockingly* painful, as are tooth problems, but give me five stones over a corneal ulcer *ANY* *DAY* !

When I told the ER doctors I didn't need pain medication and he slammed that script in my hand and literally begged me to take it I knew it wasn't going to be fun. I have never felt pain like that in my entire life. Good thing he made me take the pills. I thought I was going to die.

"You can prevent kidney stones from being hydrated" Me: *Grabs a bottle of water*

Watching this while going through a now 8 day straight passing (shown in the last few days by a CT scan. Its about 3 mm and its almost through now). Still enjoyed the video 😊

You have scared the hell out of me 😳 Post prostatectomy I have cut back on my water intake for obvious reasons but I will have to have a big rethink I guess. Have you ever done a video on the prostate ? The more I experience/know now since my op the more I learn about it's other functions that they just don't tell you when they lop it out. Great videos too, many thanks 👍

The first time I had kidney stones I didn't know what was happening to me. I thought I was going to die because there was strong pain with no apparent reason. That scared me to my core. The second time that happened (a year or so later) I already knew what the feeling was with kidney stones so I was able to drive myself to the ER and explain to the doctors what was going on. The second time was much easier but still painful.

I had a massive kidney stone a few years ago, ended up having to have two surgeries to get rid of it. I felt like someone had dug their dull fingers into my body and they were slowly tearing me in half. I was surprised at the amount of mental anguish too; there was just no escape from the pain. It never diminished and nothing could ease it. It got to the point where everything around me faded and only my pain existed, it was almost like my mind so badly wanted to be unconscious but the pain wouldn't allow it.

This was an awsome video. I can rarely sit through a video that is 20 min long - but this was so interesting and well presented - I really enjoyed it and learned alot. Thanks!

Yes, yes they are. I broke 2 ribs training in Muay Thai. I finished my training session. I had kidney stones. I was practically on the ground in the ER with that pain. You cannot believe how BAD they hurt.

Human body: *creates literally everything to sustain itself* Kidney: haha beans.

I had an ultrasound showed a small stone & this was really helpful to understand the process and what I might expect. Thank you!

Thank you for this video. I had a kidney stone in my late 20's. The day started as normal, if a little stiff in the area of the kidney. I went to work and things got progressively worse. I actually felt as if I had been kicked by a horse. Then it got worse.... In the end it broke after some self medicating... The relief is what I remembered best, and for a long time afterwards.

Bear with me…I was standing in line at the bank with two people ahead of me. Out of nowhere I starting sweating and then a slow steady feeling of a dull knife pushing slowly through my back, through my body core and up to the right front near the appendix as the pain intensified it continued to get stronger to the point I fell to my knees and passed out from the pain. I woke up with the medics putting me on the gurney as the pain was still radiating to the maximum. They couldn’t give me pain meds because they didn’t know the cause. A cat scan showed I had a 10mm jagged shaped stone stuck in my ureter trying to escape my kidney. It was too large to pass. So, fortunately this hospital had a lithotripsy unit that uses ultrasound waves to blast and pulverize the stone into basically sand and then you pass it through your bladder. I’ve passed a few smaller ones in the years since but I have never experienced pain on a scale of that magnitude and I hope none of you ever experience one tenth of that pain.

I've had an 8mm kidney stone about 3 years ago, and it was hands down the most painful experience of my entire life. Take every broken bone, every dental treatment without local anaesthetics, every headache and stomachache combined, multiply them by 10 and you're not even close. I woke up in the middle of the night and literally screamed with pain. Called myself a taxi, crawled outside on the street, waited what felt like an eternity for the taxi to arrive, then told him to get me to the nearest hospital as fast as he can. There, I limped to the reception in slow motion, tried to tell the lady what my problem is but could barely form a sentence through all the pain. Luckily though, she guessed what happened and declared an emergency, so I "just" had to wait for about 10 minutes (it felt like 8 hours, honestly). After I squirmed with pain and almost passed out, a doctor came and finally gave me some really strong pain meds. Trust me, I don't even want this to happen to my worst enemy!

Thanks for the wonderful content team 👍🏻

Great video! Very informative and enjoyable. I'm so happy I have discovered this channel. You're doing a great job! Keep on doing awesome videos! Thumbs up!

I died and having a kidney stone is worse. Joking aside, sympathies to all of you who went through this. I'm here to learn and avoid this at all costs.

I was kinda hopping that someone in comments would say “I had kidney stones and it was not that bad” but nope, everyone’s story is scary.

My experience has been that Urologists don’t do lithotripsy on a stone that’s already in the ureter. Because it essentially explodes the stone and it could damage the ureter. So if you have kidney stone pain, it’s already too late for lithotripsy.

Interesting video. I've had kidney stones 3 times . I'm 49yo. And I don't wish my worst enemy to go threw the pain of kidney stones.

its scary to think how fragile we all are, millions of tiny moving parts working 24/7 to keep us alive. Makes me feel brittle.

A telltale sign for kidney stones is extreme lower back pain out of nowhere on the left or right side right above your hip. Trust me, you'll want to go to the hospital after 20 minutes of that pain. I have kidney stones almost yearly and it's kind of messed up. Since 14 (2004) I've had Colitis and then Crohn's disease (2009) and I had my large intestine removed in 2006 so it's difficult for me to stay hydrated (Not really going to get into the dozen or so surgeries I've had for other things, like Hernias). The largest kidney stone I ever had was 9mm, imagine pissing out a literal bullet. I've had doctors and nurses try to tell me I was faking the pain just they get pain medicine and refuse to treat me until I've had a CAT scan or Ultrasound, even when I'm vomiting like crazy. Fun fact, I've had over 40 CAT scans so I'm basically destined for cancer. I didn't make this post for pity though, just wanted to share my experience. Life goes on if you keep your head up and stay positive and take care of yourself! Edit: Just wanted to say thank you for all the personal stories, positive messages and Good Vibes in this thread! Y'all are awesome! As a stand-up comedian, my pain definitely formed my sense of humor and my upbeat attitude towards life. I'd just like to add that anytime you think you have a kidney stone, try not to get a CAT scan if you can get an Ultrasound instead! Sometimes my stones don't even show up on either but I'd still piss them out, a few of those times they didn't believe me but now that I'm an established patient, they're much nicer towards me and my situation. If anyone would like to personally message me about Crohn's, Colitis, or Kidney Stones, my Facebook is BetweenTheLyons as well!

I've had kidney stones and I have a very high pain tolerance but kidney stones were by far the most painful thing I've ever had and I have had hip transplants. However as soon as that last ones out pains gone just like that.😊

Thank you, I have had Kidney stones since the age of 15. Dr Laughed then and couldn't work out what was wrong. I have passed over the last three weeks several stones, some small and a couple at 4.5mm. I had more pain and needed to attend the emergency room, had a CT and they told me there is a very unusually shaped stone that is blocking the flow but is in a position they couldn't get to. I have learned a lot from this video and thank you for this. ATB

Must agree. I screamed for 6 hours waiting to see a Doctor, because of a kidney stone that broke and blocked my tube. I only have functionality in 1 of my kidneys. After 5 children, this STONE was worse.

I had one very tiny kidney stone (I never saw it's size so who knows if I passed it). The pain was so bad that the doctor thought it was a burst appendix. I could barely breathe through the pain, and almost passed out a couple of times. They had to dope me up on morphine, and a nurse held my hand until it kicked in. How I didn't break that woman's hand is beyond me. I literally saw stars, and was in so much pain I couldn't cry or hardly breathe. Not an experience I ever want again, nor do I ever want to experience the side effects of such heavy pain meds ever again.

Your channel is teaching me so much thank you for making these videos!

I absolutely love how you explain everything, in detail, and the way you explain it makes so much sense to me Weird kinda comment but omg I just love learning what you’re teaching

This is bringing up some PTSD feelings in me. I had a kidney stone that was so large it ripped the ureter and with each push my body tried, it ripped further. It was the most miserable experience of my life. The pain was so excruciating that I stayed in the bathroom on the toilet because the overwhelming need to pee and everytime I did, I would pass out from the pain- it was that intense. I would then wake up on the bathroom floor countless times with my pants still down and the extreme urge to pee. I'd hop back on the toilet and the process kept repeating itself for a few hours until my husband got home and took me to the ER. I don't remember much at the hospital because of all the painkillers they put me on but I do remember getting the ultrasound water thing. As a mom of 3 who's had natural childbirth- Id gladly do the natural childbirth all over again too. I'd do all 3 again on the exact same day, one after the other if it was a choice between that and a kidney stone. At least in natural childbirth I wasn't passing out from pain and got a cute baby as a reward.

“This, too, shall pass! It’s gonna pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass!” 😱

Thanks. That was very interesting and informative. I've been enjoying your videos.

This channel makes me experience pain where I never thought I'd feel pain

Whenever I hear the word "kidney stone" i down a bottle of water.

My father has kidney stones and damn I never would’ve imagined how painful kidney stones are. Props to him through getting through the pain.

Most informative video I’ve watched as of yet great job

Thank you for this video I just got done having kidney stones back in septembar and was in excruciating pain was out of work for so long that I was terminated from my assignment

I actually got rushed to the hospital on my 19th birthday back on May 20th because of a kidney stone. It genuinely sucked but the "good" news is that it's only 1 millimeter. But it still sucks.

I honestly don’t get why we don’t watch videos like this in my biology class because I’ve learned more in this video that’s I have in a whole year of classroom learning

I'm 21 and had a kidney stone because I was just stupid and didn't care much for my health at the time. Well, safe to say I've cut a LOT out of my diet and am taking care of myself more now. I cannot express how painful that kidney stone was. The trip to the hospital? I felt EVERY crack in the road, every small bump, turn, etc... I hope never again

I’ve had stones 3 times. When I went in the nurse tending to me said she feels for me as she’s had kids and stones, and having the stones was so much worse than having kids. That tune has so many nerve endings it’s almost like punishment! Btw, don’t mess around, IV based dilaudid takes the pain away immediately!! They tried 3 other meds, when they landed on this I felt like I literally could sit up and walk home. Prior to that I was unable to open my eyes as the pain was so intense. Oh, and cause of stones was traced back to take a one a day vitamin. I was in mid 30s, and thought it was time to take a daily vitamin for health. Turns out, all it did was deposit a massive amount of mineral deposits in the kidney for stones to build up.