Yep, it is perfectly normal. So is the wide eyed expression on his face when he feels those twinges.The Annoyed Man wrote:Update: My son was released from the hospital as scheduled and is doing much better. He told me on Saturday that he's still getting a twinge here and there, but he's been warned that is normal and will fade over time. The receptionist at his urologist's office told me that she's had two kidney stones and given birth twice........and the kidney stones were worse by several orders of magnitude.
Not to take away from anybody's childbirth experience—I'm sure it is darn hard and painful—but you women are actually biologically designed to deliver babies. Neither men nor women are designed to pass a spiky mineral cocklebur down their ureters. As any good test pilot can tell you, when you go beyond the design parameters of the platform, bad things happen.
I've had a number of urinary tract issues over the years, mostly related to the prostate or secondary to it, but watching my son was enough to convince me that I'd rather have a raging bladder infection any day of the week than have to pass a kidney stone. You can have 'em.
I have had a couple women who went through both tell me the same thing.
No thanks, I have had plenty already. I just ride them out now. The doctors are always more concerned with running up the bill with expensive, time consuming, and unnecessary tests than actually providing me with any relief.
The last time I let someone take me to the emergency room, by the time it was all said and done, I ended with about 30 minutes of relief and big fat bill that would have covered the cost of a nice new gun. I am not making that mistake again. 
