Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Ickie, get to a doctor and have it checked out. Kidney infection or a stone is not fun at all, and could really knock you silly.

I'm almost 70 now. Had a kidney stone about 11 yrs ago. I do not remember ANYTHING being worse than that. Had a bout of gout buy K-stones are much worse. Not even a gall bladder prob was that bad.
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I have never given birth (obviously) but I have had cracked ribs (twice), torn muscles in my lower back (thanks to my own stupidity), almost ripped my thumb off in an industrial accident as a 17 year old apprentice and passed a kidney stone and the stone was by far the most painful experience I have ever had. Passing the stone was not too painful but the lead up to that point certainly was.I was assured after my kidney stone, by a very upper class lady in the London department store I worked at, that the pain is worse than child birth!! Ickie, you have my deepest sympathy mate. :salute:
It's those curly florescent light bulbs, you need to go back to incandescent!