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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[querldox.livejournal.com]

Had one myself a couple of years ago. I'm still not sure if I got morphine in the ER or a placebo; the original shift didn't want me leaving until 1:45a.m. since they didn't want me driving up 101 on morphine. But when the next shift came in at midnight, they had no problems practically pushing me out the door.

Was given vicoden to take home. At first, I thought it wasn't having any effects other than reducing pain. Then I went across the street to Target to get some cranberry juice. It being October, they had costume displays up, and it started occurring to me that maybe I did actually need a lifesize giant chicken costume when I thought "Maybe the vicoden has kicked in".

Never felt it actually pass, but the pain stopped so either it passed or moved elsewhere in the kidney where it's not bothered me since.

[jducoeur]

In my case, the morphine was definitely real. Took a minute or two after they injected it into the IV, and then it hit like a mule -- practically passed out at first, and was distinctly woozy on my feet for the next half-hour. But it did work wonders on the pain...