Pain
The description of the pain encountered by kidney and ureteric stone sufferers is Acute Renal Colic.

 Very often a sufferer will lose consciousness due to the pain they are experiencing!

To Quote from the NICE Guideline that was published on the 8-1-19 

"Pain Management

Offer a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) by any route as first line treatment for adults, children and young people with suspected renal colic.
Offer intravenous paracetamol to adults, children and young people with suspected renal colic if NSAIDs are contraindicated or are not giving sufficient pain relief.
Consider opioids for adults, children and young people with suspected renal colic if both NSAIDs and intravenous paracetamol are contraindicated or are not giving sufficient pain relief." 
 
Comments from sufferers:

They can be moving arms, legs or torso perfectly normally for days. 
Then after only a slight movement the pain starts.    
When they are lucky they have their pain killers to hand; if not, the pain will be too great to move, so they stay very still and wait for the pain to subside a little, then they get and take their pills. 
Even after taking their pain killers many remark they feel as if they have been kicked in the stomach.
They might go a day or even weeks before the pain starts again.
They risk getting the pain every time they do an everyday task and it may take the stone weeks or months to be ejected.

Acute pain is experienced by all sufferers and Beat Kidney Stones is now raising money to support the following research recommended by NICE: 

“What is the most clinically and cost effective route of administration for non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the management of acute pain thought to be due to renal or ureteric stones?”

The routes of administration for NSAIDs are: intravenous, intramuscular, oral or rectal.

Acute pain is bad enough but if the administration of NSAIDs by one particular route causes a quicker reduction in the pain then that needs to be known about and published for all to act upon. 
This Charity intends to support all of the 5 research recommendations made in the NICE Guideline published on the 8-1-19. If any of the other research proposals is your preferred choice for support and you tell the Charity which it is, then the Charity will allocate your donations accordingly.
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