I recently had surgery to laser blast 2 kidney stones and had stents inserted into my uriters. The urologist also said I had a lot of stones higher up in my kidneys he could not get to with the laser. He suggested shockwave treatment. I will find out in a few weeks at my follow up what the plans are. If I do require this method is it painful? and do they put stents in after the shocwave treatment?
Thanks

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My boyfriend has a kidney stone at the moment. He recently had an operation to remove a stone from his bladder and a stone from his kidney. They got the bladder stone but they couldn’t find the kidney stone.
About 20 weeks ago when he was first diagnosed he was told the kidney stone was 8mm, now apparently it’s 7mm.
Though i’m not ready to trust the hospital since the whole 20 week thing has been nothing but a series of massive cock ups on their end. They didn’t even give him diet advice.
So, what i would like to know is…
Is it possible for a kidney stone to shrink?
What can he do to break the stone down?
What can he do to avoid more stones? This is his 3rd stone.

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Okay, so I had asked a question earlier in this category, about some odd thing coming out in my urine…

I had said it was bloody, and squishy. I retrieved it from the toilet and kept it in a little dixie cup for when I see my doctor. I had a bit of the urine or water in the cup… and it dissolved. I’m thinking it was mucus, instead of a blood clot (too light), or kidney stone (too soft).

I mentioned before that I have very frequent (2 times a month) UTIs, and I’m wondering if this couldn’t be related?

It didn’t hurt coming out and YES, I AM SURE IT CAME FROM MY URETHRA! (I saw it, and felt it.)

So anyone have any ideas? I’m 15, female… not pregnant nor sexually active. Could this be mucus, or possibly (please no) a polyp?

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I have 3 kidney stones (2 on the right one on the left) and the ones on the right really cause me alot of pain. I was just wondering if anyone knew if taking diurex or something would help move them down and flush them out?

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friend cant remember if it was a leafy herb or was a green veg. like broccoli or which green spice/herb/vegetable. joe barton is selling the cure for 19.95 just to give you these 2 grocery"store items the doctors don’t want you to know about."unquote.

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