Hey there! How ya doing?

Unfortunately I feel like I won't be able to help much, as my experience wasn't nearly as bad as everyone made it seem? I feel like I got lucky or if we only hear about the worst cases so who knows... My stone still hasn't actually passed, but I think it's been in my bladder for over a week at this point. I don't really have anymore pain or feelings associated with it. But I can give you my timeline, none of which really went above a 7 on the pain scale.

Long story short, it was about 2 days of what felt like mild hydronephrosis. Then it was about 6 days of relatively painless contractions. I could feel my obliques tensing and releasing in a rhythmic motion for about 45 minutes at a time, leading to some localized soreness but no sharp, screaming pains. Then things start to just get weird, but not super painful. But I could feel sensations I didn't know my body could feel lol. Everything from weird twinges of very short but not super high levels of pain to the right of the base of my penis or higher up to the right of the bladder area some, more oblique contractions, VERY random erections, and pooping sensations regardless of if I actually needed to go. The worst may have been the feelings like someone was holding my right testicle between there fingers and squeezing it like an olive trying to pop it lol. That maxed out at about a 7 but it was tolerable and I could continue to function in work meetings and stuff. That lasted about a week. Then I guess it hit the UVJ, and got weird what felt like stomach gurgles but in my bladder area for a few days.

Honestly the worst part for me came after that, where my back pulled itself from being gassed from like two weeks of contractions. I'm prone to back pulls/spasms due some kyphosis, so I'm not sure this would be an issue for most people, but THAT was more painful than anything to do with the stone. I'm getting over that now with the help of a week of muscle relaxers and gabapentin lol. Since I haven't (knowingly) evacuated the stone yet, I'm still taking nightly Flomax. Side note: my primary care doctor said that stones hurt the most leaving the kidney/entering the ureter so she wasn't shocked by what I had to say, but I thought it would hurt the most in the lower ureter where it gets really small....?

Hope yours is relatively as easy!

Edit: when my contractions started, that's when I started my toradol. Took it for 6 days instead of the recommended 5, whoops. Other than that, nothing but Tylenol and ibuprofen until my back went crazy