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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[keshwyn]

I take cranberry pills to prevent UTIs. They aren't quite as good as straight juice, but they seem to work and they also give me extra vitamin C. If kidney stones are handled by the same acidifying effect, maybe those would work?

[jducoeur]

Possible -- something for me to keep in mind...