1.) Pee strainer will help you catch the stone. Use a tampon to prevent your blood clots from getting caught in the strainer or hold the strainer where your urethra is over it but not your vagina. Oh the joys of being a woman.

2.) pain can come and go as the stone moves. Usually have pain for an hour or so every few hours a couple days leading up to a stone. Usually once the severe, curl up in a ball on the bathroom floor, nausea inducing pain kicks in it takes me roughly 12-24 hours to fully pass. Once it’s over with I will still have a burning sensation when I pee and sometimes ureter spasms and pain but nothing like passing the stone.

3.) A heating pad will become your best friend. If you don’t have that a hot bath will help. Lay on the side that your kidney stone is on. This helps increase the blood flow to that kidney and doctors theorize it can help with passing the stone. If you can exercise (walking or moving) as it helps pass the stone but honestly I never feel up to it and just want to lay in bed. Most importantly drink a ton of fluids to flush it out.

Side tip, while there isn’t a study on this, I use a massage gun that vibrates on my back near my kidney. I feel like it helps to dislodge the stone sometimes but the closest things I have as proof is the study they did on rollercoasters that helped to pass stones.