Right side pain below the rib cage. Feels like I have to piss but can’t. Feeling sick to my stomach but haven’t thrown up. Woke up at 2a this morning with the storms and felt like a cramp in my side but just didn’t go away

No family history of them. But I am a diabetic.

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Appendicitis or Kidney stone are high on the list.

(Liver, gall bladder, or some other giblets ain't happy, you didn't cook them beans and ham hocks long enough...)

If it bothers you enough to ask on the forum. it bothers you enough to drag yer ass to the ER.

Put yer sneakers on and beat feet.


For what it's worth, I went to the ER thinking I might have be having a heart attack.

Ended up I needed a "fleet" (after a lidocaine green mint nasty cocktail in the ER) and the pain subsided. Fleet worked.

Two days later I was sick as a dog as I actually had e-coli and it had "paralyzed my bowels", but it did not present in a manner that the ER would catch it.

And my gut still was not moving things south, rather like snowbirds, everything went back up north, until I was heaving toenails, and things from my childhood into the commode.

The point?

Screw embarrassing and munny, get yourself to the people that can fix this.





Let us know how it goes.

Get to the hospital while you can still ask if you have one.

When they asked how the pain was on a scale of 1 - 10, by the time I got there, I mumbled 9. I figured any more pain and I'd not be able to get any intelligible words out or I'd be passed out.

As soon as I feel them I start pounding down water, have had 23. Sometimes I’ve had them pass in ER before a doc can see me. Stay off dark sodas, watch your diet. I hate those little ba$tards.

Very well could be a gallstone.

My kidney stones have always started with a back ache.

Well, I hope he went to the ER, and if it's one of those free-standing ones, got seen quickly, diagnosed and treated properly. When you suddenly develop severe pain like that that persists, going on the forum and asking is not the right answer.

See my "Get to the hospital now" thread. Do not mess around with difficult urination.

Are you doubled over in pain?
Throwing up because the pain is so bad?
Laying on the ground thrashing about?
Praying to all the deities you can think of?

If not, it's probably not a kidney stone but some other type of situation that you need to get medical help for ASAP.

Please keep us posted

Good luck to you and a speedy recovery

Yes please keep us posted and good luck.

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Are you doubled over in pain?
Throwing up because the pain is so bad?
Laying on the ground thrashing about?
Praying to all the deities you can think of?

In my experience, there are some things you don't need to question. If you say "Do I have a kidney stone?" you don't have a kidney stone. If you say "Is my nose broken?" your nose isn't broken.

But for sure, you should get to an ER.

Sorry guys update

Yep it was a kidney stone. It has now passed from the kidney to the bladder. More discomfort than pain. Did throw up twice and all is better now.

2 years ago, my wife had a small kidney stone that got stuck between her kidney and bladder. This caused Sepsis and she nearly died. I have always taken them for granted. Now I know they can be serious. Just my 2 cents…

I was having weird signals to urinate. If I sat in the recliner it seemed I had to pee a lot. Then on New Years Eve, I passed some blood in my urine. Lickety split to the ER. Luckily a new hospital was only 1/2 mile as the crow flies from the house. CT showed a very large stone in my bladder and I also had a UTI. Blood got worse but soon settled down. My urologist scheduled the procedure to remove the 1.5 cm stone. Procedure went fine and very little discomfort. Get to a hospital right away.

So the CT scan showed it has moved to the bladder. If I don’t piss it out is it Able to stay there

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Originally posted by Lineman101:
2 years ago, my wife had a small kidney stone that got stuck between her kidney and bladder. This caused Sepsis and she nearly died. I have always taken them for granted. Now I know they can be serious. Just my 2 cents…

Similar situation with my wife she had a massive obstructive stone that caused sepsis and she was very sick. Stone to big to remove by traditional methods, had to have a nephrostomy ( where the cut into the kidney and dig the stone out)
Definitely not something to take lightly

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:
So the CT scan showed it has moved to the bladder. If I don’t piss it out is it Able to stay there

For me the worst was the kidney to bladder movement. Once it got to the bladder it was a short (Ahem, I mean long distance to the funnel I was pissing through to collect the stone for study.
I actually ran out of urine part way when it had left the bladder, knew where it was but had to wait till the next restroom visit.

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Originally posted by k5blazer: My urologist scheduled the procedure to remove the 1.5 cm stone. Procedure went fine and very little discomfort. Get to a hospital right away.

How in the heck did a 15mm stone make it through the ureter from your kidney to the bladder?

December 31, 1999 at 7:50 pm I went to the hospital with the last kidney stone of the Millennium! Laser Ed, broken up and gravel passed uncomfortably by the New Year. Last gravel by the afternoon of January 1, 2000!

Toradol is your best friend.

Time to start the competition...
"My stone was xx millimeters!"
"That's nothing, my stone was zz millimeters!"
Repeat for about three pages...