Renal Colic

The pain arrives like a bolt of lightning. Without warning, without warm-up — a cramp that gnaws through your abdomen, doubles you over, takes your breath away. Renal colic ranks among the most severe pains a person can experience. Some compare it to labour contractions. Some say nothing is worse. Medically, the cause is usually a stone that has become lodged in the ureter — a tiny formation that blocks the flow and triggers a chain reaction of pressure, cramp, and pain.

But why does this stone form in the first place? Why does something crystallise in your body that should have remained fluid? The psychosomatic perspective asks exactly this question: what in your inner life has been so long at a standstill, so long condensed and compressed, that it has literally hardened into stone?

Renal colic is not a gentle hint — it is an alarm. Loud, relentless, unmistakable.