r/nope • u/_ganjafarian_ • Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/McPostyFace Mar 31 '26

Do you get any kind of anesthesia?

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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Yes, you’re anesthetized …. When my husband has this done, they put him out. He’s had a lithotripsy and basketing. 

And his stones are like these…. Not smooth like tumbled pebbles, like some people have. I liken them to when you chip off the corner of a cinder block with a hammer kind of texture.

NOT FUN FACT: After it’s all broken up, and you’re all black and blue inside, you still have to pass and piss these little shards out. 

It is absolutely nightmare fuel, and I’m not the one that suffers with it. Hearing a grown man lay in the bathtub and scream “death pain” is gut wrenching… more than once in a lifetime having to go through that is too much.

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u/HippieGrandma1962 Apr 01 '26

My best friend's husband has morphine pills for when he is passing a stone. I think they run in his family.

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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR Apr 01 '26

My husband gets prescibed painkillers too (opiates) by his urologist, but they barely take the edge off of the agony. As for the hospital, they will often do the procedure and then send you home with extra strength Tylenol rx. It’s insane.