I am one of those fortunate (???) individuals whose body makes those insidious things as a matter of "situation normal". So I have had numerous attacks throughout the years and have been hospitalized on multiple occasions, twice simply for pain control.
The trouble is that in spite of imaging advances those devils are difficult to find. The pain, although it's the worst one has ever experienced, is nearly impossible to localize. Your nerves reflect it everywhere, or no where. It really does feel like somebody's kicked you in the nuts, although that's not where the stone is.
And you pee blood. A little blood in the urine and you'd think you were bleeding out. A little goes a long way. And since it often takes a while to find the cussed things, you may have to go back again and again. They can't treat until they see them. And they hide.
You end up popping Vicodin or Oxycotin like candy -- I've tried both -- in order to function while you get diagnosed and the urologist locates the bugger. That can take weeks. I've been there twice. The other times I passed the stone with no medical intervention.
All told, six times in my 65 years. All very painful. Once with sonic wave lithotripsy (good! Easy Peasy!), once with LASER (bad, but better than the fucking stones). The difference is that lithotripsy is only indicated if the stones have not entered the ureter. (AFAIK)
Kidney stones are nothing to mess around with. And they are extremely painful.
on edit: and no, DeSwiss, dope does not help. 
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