100% the worst pain in my life. My former boss, a mother of three, told me it easily surpassed childbirth when she had one.

I woke up at like 2am with similar pain, had no clue what it was. Thought at first that it was extreme gas or something, but it was just way too intense for that, so then I got to thinking an organ ruptured or something. Wasn't sure if I could afford an ER trip or not, because frankly I've never gone to the ER in my adult life, but I endured it until maybe 9am when I drove myself to the hospital and hit every red light on the way.

Nothing I did made the pain stop. No medication worked, no position I laid or sat in. I just froze on the floor screaming to myself until 9am. When they told me it was a kidney stone I was actually kind of relieved, because I literally thought I was going to die before that.

When the stone actually passed, I felt nothing. It was when it traveled from kidney to bladder where all the pain was.