Yes, I had kidney stones in February of 2004. Wow, hopefully never again..
I was supposed to watch a friend's store that day, because she had things to do.. She picked me up in the morning for the 20 minute drive to the store. Just as I was getting in the car, I felt a slight twinge of pain in my back. By the time we arrived at the store 20 minutes later, I was in the worst possible pain. I mean, the absolute worst. I too was crawling on the floor, because I couldn't sit or stand or walk or do anything. As I don't have health insurance, I didn't want to go to the hospital. My friend called the doctor and they gave me an appointment for 3 in the afternoon, that was still 6 hours away. 15 minutes later I was in an ambulance on my way to the hospital.
The guy in the ambulance called ahead to let them know we were coming, but they said that their ER was very busy at the moment, so the ambulance had to go to a different hospital which was much further away. I had already been in the ER for at least 20 minutes, they had taken my blood pressure, an EKG, taken some blood, checked my temperature, but nobody had thought about giving me a pain killer. Then, when a different nurse came in to check my blood pressure once more, I became completely furious, and I don't get mad too often. I screamed that someone was going to give me a pain killer right NOW or I would break the damn place down. Another nurse came in, with the intention of putting a pain killer in my IV, and somehow the IV broke and he had to put a different one in before he could get me the pain killer. It was horrible. Luckily, the pain killer worked right away and it made all the difference in the world.
Then I had to take this little sifter thing home and pee through it in order to catch the stone. After doing this for like a week I got tired of it and just threw the thing out. They gave me strong pain killers and something for the nausea. I still carry the painkillers wherever I go. All this cost me a good $4,000 which took me a year to pay off.
A few facts I learned..
90 % of people who have kidney stones are male.
After you have developed kidney stones, you have a 50% chance of getting them again.
The develpoment of kidney stones can have several causes. Usually they can only determine the cause when they actually see the stone and can figure out what kind of a stone it is.