Sunday night at about 11:00 I started having some back pain – it felt like I pulled a muscle or something but I hadn’t done anything to pull a back muscle. It got bad enough for me to take some Alleve (and I never take pain meds). The pain moved around to the front and into the groin area and since I was online I started googling things like “What does a hernia feel like?” trying to figure out what was going on and at some point I searched for something that led me to kidney stones.
The symptoms of kidney stones was EXACTLY what I had – back pain, spreading to the front and groin area, and nausea. So, before I went to the ER I knew what it was. The pain was bad enough to bring me to tears. For guys, imagine the feeling of getting kicked in the junk for 15 minutes straight then add to that severe back pain.
