I had kidney stones a couples of years ago. It woke me out a dead sleep on a Sunday morning. I ended up going to the ER vomiting and hunched over in severe pain. After confirming that I had a 4 mm stone with a CT scan, I was given morphine, something for nausea and sent home with an appt to see a urologist. The urologist gave me antibiotics, told me I would probably not pass the stone and scheduled cystoscopy and lithotripsy for the coming Thursday. I went to work and just took my pain meds. The day of surgery I had an x-ray to confirm the placement of the stone. Then after waiting around most of the day I finally had my surgery. It wasn't bad at all. No stitches or anything like that just a small spot on my back where they did lithotripsy. As soon as I woke up the pain was gone. The doc told me to finish taking antibiotics, strain my urine because I would be passing tiny particles of stone and come back in a week to have the stent removed. I thought having the stent removed was going to be painful but it wasn't. I had another x-ray and the doc told me I still had tiny stone particles in my kidney. He told me to do this maneuver every night where I'm practically standing on my head and have someone firmly slap me on my lower back to jar my kidney and help the stone particles pass. He told me to drink lots of water, limit my caffeine intake and that once you have a kidney stone it is likely that you will have another at some point.
Needless to say I drink tons of water whereas before I would drink 1-2 cups of coffee a day and 1 glass of tea at night.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. Good luck.
