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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Re: Find out what kind you had.

[jducoeur]

Yeah, I gather that this is why they asked me to pee through the funnel, and supplied me with a sample jar so I could hold onto it when it came out. I have an appointment with the urologist tomorrow, and he'll presumably do the appropriate analysis on it.

As for the x-ray, I believe that yesterday's CT scan checked both kidneys. My impression from reading the gobbledygook is that there are a few other stones in there, but all are "tiny", and they aren't in especially worrying places. But presumably the urologist is going to talk with me about what to do about them.