Bigger than a sesame seed, heckuva lot smaller than it felt like

[jducoeur]

The pain died down a couple of hours ago -- while I was attributing that to the megadose of ibuprofen, I suspected that it might be due to the thing moving along, and so it seems to have done. Peeing through a funnel is an annoying thing to have to do, but it does provide fine closure in the form of, "Yes, the damned thing is out of your body".

Still a bit of residual achiness here and there, but I suspect that's more muscle tension than anything else. Hopefully that's the end of it, at least this time around. In the grand scheme of things, I got lucky: one day of that horror is shorter than most, far as I understand it. And I now have something to assiduously try to avoid, from here on out...

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[gyzki.livejournal.com]

They say there is a certainly sympathetic fellow-feeling between people who have passed kidney stones—they have experienced a kind of pain that simply cannot be imagined from another's description. Like eating lutefisk.

I do hope the kidney has suffered no lasting damage.

[jducoeur]

Thanks -- tomorrow, I'll chat with the urologist about how to interpret the commentary on the CT scan...