Kidney stones are said to be as painful as ‘giving birth’ – and thousands of people are affected by them every year. Get the facts on the condition with sufferers including Peter Kay and Dolly Parton Star Fit editor James Moore was less than impressed by his kidney stone experience

Comic Peter Kay has revealed that he underwent emergency surgery for a huge kidney stone.

In his new memoir the star reveals that it was eventually blasted away after a camera was put up his urethra.

Other sufferers include TV funnyman Michael McIntyre and country singer Dolly Parton.

Here I reveal a Q and A guide – and my own story of painfully passing one…

‘Like being stabbed’…

“They say it’s as bad as giving birth,” said the nurse as I lay writhing on the hospital trolley.

I don’t know about t

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