Kidney stones and lithotripsy

[justhanginon]

5. I have had a bunch of them. I think the last few were with the lithotripsy

procedure. I think they break it up with ultra sound so that you can pass them normally. Been a few years but as I recall I had some local soreness in the kidney area for a couple of days but not anything major. As a footnote, I had the first one back about a hundred years ago and have an eleven inch incision scar and a two week stay in the hospital. I woke up on the recovery room and had friggin tubes running out of me everywhere. Two more like that, scars on both sides, and then the procedure went down to an incision about an inch or so and finally the ultrasound. I also passed a few normally without any medical help. Needless to say I applauded their progress.

On edit; I am a male.