probably because i've been eating a lot of really awesome street food (that's admittedly sodium-rich but my choices are on me)
worst pain ever though like not even getting shot would feel this awful but hey at least i now know i'd make for a good punk screamer
anyway ended up going to the hospital and and despite being a foreigner on an L visa it was easy and affordable, and since my chinese is terrible (they naturally assumed such in advance) they had an english-speaking doctor video-call me to explain what the other doctors were doing before using one of those machines to punch my kidney stones into kidney dust
healthcare here is pretty cool, so common china W 😎 too bad i'm pissing blood
My partner has had several kidney stones and it is the worst pain they have ever had. A kidney stone almost killed them once when it was blocking an infected kidney from draining and our idiot GPs were so convinced they were just being too squeamish that they failed to ignore obvious danger signs.
Take UTI's serious, especially when you have a history of kidney stones.