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The previous answer is not entirely true. Stones can be made of calcium or uric acid. The mainstay of treatment is drinking fluids (not necessarily ALL water but not all the SAME thing either) – up to 2 liters per day when you have a stone that needs to pass and 100 ounces per day if you have had a stone before to try to keep from getting another stone. Calcium stones can be treated with sound waves sent through water (ESWL – extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy – done from the outside of the body), laser lithotripsy (sometimes called Lithoclast – done through a tiny fiber optic instrument inside the body), or with stone removal (ureteroscopy – going up the ureter/"tube" with a tiny instrument and a stone basket to extract the stone) sometimes followed by stent (a tube to keep the ureter open when there is inflammation and is removed days or weeks later). Sometimes, when the stones are very, very large, they will have to open the kidney itself to take them out, or even remove the kidney (that is not in your case though). While none of these procedures are fun, pain medication and anti-spasmodic medications are used to help treat the discomfort. Passing a kidney stone is not always painful. The pain is caused from obstruction of the ureter/"tube" but once it is in the bladder, the stone usually passes without much problem.
Uric acid stones can be dissolved with medications or removed.
A Kidney stone is a calcium build up. It is located in the tubes leading from the kidneys to the the bladder.
Hopefully it is small enough because a doctors #1 treatment is to drink as much liquids as possible so that the stone can be urinated out. It is extremely painful though.
If the stone is to big they will resort to either a laser zapping or a small surgery to correct and remove it.
It is often that most smaller stone of size 5mm pass through to the urine. For larger stones, treatments include lithotripsy, which is shock wave ultrasound which pulverizes the stones to smaller particles. Ureteroscopy can be used to break up the stone and pull them out through the urethra and then a stent is placed. The other treatment is percutaneous nephrolithotomy.