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I just read the post from Smiffy and am starting to get very nervous. I am having a lithotripsy done on the 26th. My doctor said I would be taken to surgery and put out. I hope he wasn't telling stories to me. So far everything that he has told me has been on the money. I am curious about all that is involved with the procedure and what to expect when I wake up and have to go home. Will I be able to function or will I really be hurting? I wanted to go to my daughters college swim meet the next day and it is a three hour drive one way. I will not be driving of course, my husband will be but will I feel well enough to ride that distance? How soon after do the stone pieces come out and are they painful like an ordinary kidney stone? (I hope you understand what I'm trying to ask. I'm thinking they will be small and just come out with little or no pain) I plan on going back to work on Monday am I being unrealistic? Well thanks for any information anyone would care to share with me.

Smiffy, I hope you can go to a different hospital and have this done because the one your using doesn't sound very caring.


Maggie

Hi Maggie,

Everyone is different when it comes to having the lithotripsy done. Heck, even if you have the procedure done, you may feel different the next time. I have had this procedure done many times and have felt different each time, even with the same doctor. Whatever you do, do not let them give you an epidural, where they give you the shot in the back. The last time I had this done and it was the first time. I felt the worse after the last procedure.

You could wake up the next morning feeling great with very little pain in your kidney area, or you could just feel like crap. It all depends.

They never put me out, they only gave me a local anesthetic, because when they are doing the procedure sometimes they have to ask you to move. I have never been put out totally. I like it like that. But you will need to go home and rest. Hopefully you have the earliest procedure, that will give you more time to rest for the rest of the day.

I have passed kidney stones a few hours after the procedure.

When you get this procedure done, make sure after you drink as much fluids as possible when they give them to you in the hospital, because if you don't pee, you don't go home. My dear mother in law has taken me each time except for the last time my husband took me and now he knows what I am going through. He feels for me. These kidney stones are nothing to joke about.

If you have any questions feel free to ask me, I am on this board all the time.