Kidney Stones (part one)

My doctor described kidney stone pain as the equivalent to a woman giving birth. Well I can personally attest that it is extremely painful. In fact the pain was so great that heavy doses of Tylenol 3 didn't make a dent! I was fortunate that Vancouver General Hospital has an Acute Kidney Stone clinic. This clinic uses a Lithopriper kidney stone crusher. This machine is used to target and crush the stone(s) using sonic waves. It is less invasive and quick and i found the Lithopripsy treatment to be quite pain free. But afterwards passing the fragmented stones was extremely painful. But once this was done less than 6 hours later I was pain free and on the road to recovery.