This is dead spot on accurate. Mine was relatively small. The pain wasn't. The only funny thing through the whole ordeal was when the CT scan tech was looking at the photo of my kidneys, I asked him if there were any more. When he said he counted fifteen, I was alert enough to sit bolt up on the table but not alert enough to realize he was kidding. It took me a few seconds to realize that he was grinning. Only then was it funny. My dad said he passed one without meds once by lying in a hot tub for hours, without medication. I'm way too much of a ninny for that. Gimme meds and give 'em quick. This from a guy that doesn't like to take aspirin. I get over my anti-painkiller tendencies real quick when that kind of pain is involved.