I know someone right now that has a stone the size of a pencil eraser, he tried to have it blasted last Friday and it did not work! So he has to drink a ton of water and just try and get it to pass on it's own. I have seen those bring grown men to the floor in pain and theirs was only the size of a grain of sand.
Whaaaatttt? They want one that size to pass?
OMG. That sucks.
Not that size affects the pain. Ureters are pretty darn small. I just thought one the size of an eraser could get stuck and cause other issues.
This grown woman was brought to her knees in pain with my first one, and I was terrified as I had no idea what was causing it and I thought I might die, literally. My son was with me at the ER (so was my mom) and he was pretty young and I had to go away from him so he wasn't terrified. There was JUST no maintaining in his presence. I tried to be chill but it got to the point where it was impossible and I couldn't even think straight.
Side note: they gave me a medication I was allergic to (anaphylaxis) so while it killed the pain I had to go get someone to give me epinephrine so I literally would not die. But that was less scary than the pain from unknown origin.