Well..I have just been thru a nightmare with kidney stones..I had a 4mm in 2023 and passed it no problem (the Urologist was amazed.. said most people would be double over in pain..but I've had so many horrible gut issues..this was a picnic)..so in June I went back, and he told me that I had only 4 small stones in each kidney .. not to worry .. 2 weeks later after I had been in bed for a week in a fetal position thinking it was another gut issue, I told my boyfriend ..we ought to go to ER.. and we did.. and they did a CT (w/o contrast) and found pneumonia.. no stones..and discharged me..I almost passed out in their restroom as we were leaving and just walked back into ER (which freaked them all out) and said I need to talk to him (theDR)..and told him I was in so much pain I just could not stand it.. and he gave me a morphine shot and redid my diagnosis too include "renal colic".. 2 days later I went back to the Urologist and I was trying to pass a 1.7mm stone!! Thant's 10 Centimeters+.7mm!! ( which everyone says is a large one).. now ..I only had 4 small ones about 2 weeks before.. this time I asked for the ultrasound copy so if I had to go back to the hospital, I could prove I had stones..( all this and the next day I finally made it to my much anticipated 5 month wait to see my new gastro..and while I was there, my sister facebooked me my 95 year old Mother was not long for this world..so I went home and called the Urologist and was arguing about what to do as it was July 3rd and they would be eating hamburgers until the next week.. and I got a face book message from my sister.. MOM HAS DIED.. all this . very disruptive to my conversations with my new gastro .. and why did he tell me I only had 4 small ones.. and then he made me pass it.. for weeks.. passed 4mm of it and then passed the other 6.7... and now I have 8 total all of with are over 6 mm.. so I am keeping myself on Flomax.. and got a referral to another Urologist from my primary care DR (who is an angel) and a prescription for the pain meds.. he wouldn't give me..I really don't appreciate not being told what I was up against.. and also then having to go to a very important gastro appt passing a 10.7 mm stone ..no pain meds.. (wanted to be as alert as possible) and the nurse arguing with me over the phone even as I told her my MOTHER HAS JUST NOW DIED..what is wrong with some of these doctors?.. where is human compassion?? I got extremely traumatized by this..so now the new doctor says he'll just knock me out and get them all out!! Hurray!! I have been in agony for months!! Cheers to my Primary Care team (she cried when she heard this story.. lovely lady, new doctor for me..I just love and appreciate her so much..I always send a thank you card to special doctors like her.. some ae sooo bad.. ) that's my nightmare kidney stone story.. Momma is in a better place for sure..