Renal colic and childbirth pain: female experience versus male perception

Renal colic is often described by patients as the worst pain ever experienced.1 Pain childbirth is also similarly described.2 To date, no study has comparatively the pain of renal colic to that of childbirth in female patients who have both. Furthermore, no such study has evaluated the perception that men renal colic have with respect to the pain experienced during childbirth. Here we our cross-sectional observational study to address these questions. The primary of our study were to answer these questions and highlight the severity of colic which is not always faced and treated aggressively.