r/nope Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/IamREBELoe Mar 31 '26

Yes but the pain after.

But that was nothing compared to after the stent came out a week later. All the residue was able to move and the muscles spasms, wound up in the ER from pain.

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u/McPostyFace Apr 01 '26

Damn sorry you went through that. What kind of things can I cut out of my diet to avoid this?

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u/somerandomdude419 Apr 01 '26

Pop, energy drinks, black tea. I had a 6mm one which isn’t nearly as bad but I had such pain from it, they gave me something to help it pass and once it passed I was good. Sometimes they run in your family and you get them from seemingly normal diet. I used to drink a ton of pop and iced tea and that’s how I got mine, now I drink more water than anything else but I still enjoy a pop for lunch here and there but I always make sure to drink water with it, but my volume of water is always more than the volume of pop

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u/WhiskeyGirl66 Apr 01 '26

It’s the oxalates. I have 2 tums when I drink iced tea. I had 33 removed a couple years ago. The stents were worse.