It all started a couple Thursdays ago. I woke up and when I went to the restroom my urine was a red/brown color. I had food poisoning earlier in the week and had been really sick for three days. Couldn't keep any food or water down, so figured I might have a urinary tract infection. I took a shower, got dressed, and was going to swing by the Rediclinic at HEB before heading into work. Before I could get out the door, I had the worst pain of my life. Excrutiating pain in my lower back and groin and was sweating bad. Couldn't even stand up. This went on for a couple hours. Had to lay down in the bath tub in hot water to make it through the pain. No way I could drive myself to urgent care, so I call the wife home from work. By the time she got home, I was feeling better and we went to urgent care facility. They took a urine sample and said I was really dehydrated which makes since after being sick earlier that week. They gave me 3-hours of IVs and took x-rays to send off to the radiologist. Sure enough, there were three kidney stones but they were all out of my kidneys and at the very end of my ureter (tube that connects your kidneys to your bladder). Given the location, he said that my pain was most likely my body pushing the stones out of my kidneys and that I should pass them within a couple days. Dehydration is a major cause of kidney stones, so he said that was most likely the cause and not my diet. Couldn't get into the urologist until that following Monday, so urgent care prescribed pain pills and some other medication for nausea. I felt fine all weekend, but had quite a few times that I felt like I really needed to to a leak, but couldn't. The urologist sent me to get a CT scan to confirm I had already passed them and sure enough I had. Only felt one leave my system which was not a pleasant experience either. Felt like I was pissing glass. Urologist said that the reason I felt like I had to pee, but couldn't was because one or more of the kidney stones had lodged in the ureter. There was urine ready to leave my system, but it couldn't make it past the stone(s) to my bladder and was backing up towards my kidney. I had heard some horror stories about kidney stones and I can tell you that those people weren't lying. Not a fun experience. Best of luck to you!