Patients will often prefer ESWL as it is less invasive in that typically no scopes are inserted into the patient’s bladder, and no stent is placed.

How long will my stent stay in place? The length of time the stent remains in your ureter is variable. Your doctor will probably request it to be removed somewhere between 5- 10 days after your procedure. About 50% of patients feel flank fullness (usually during voiding) and urgency as a result of the stent.

What to Expect at Home. It is normal to have a small amount of blood in your urine for a few days to a few weeks after this procedure. You may have pain and nausea when the stone pieces pass. This can happen soon after treatment and may last for 4 to 8 weeks.

Conclusion: Routine placement of a ureteral stent is not mandatory in patients without complications after ureteroscopic lithotripsy for impacted ureteral stones. Stent placement can be argued and agreed with the patients preoperatively in the light of the data presented above.

Full recovery can take 1 to 2 weeks. Fatigue and discomfort are common but will fade during recovery.

Mean pain during stent removal was 4.8 out of 10 with 57% reporting moderate-to-severe pain levels of 4 or more. Removal by office cystoscopy resulted in the highest experienced pain (5.3). Thirty-two percent reported delayed severe pain after stent removal, including 9% who returned for emergency care.

The majority of patients reported moderate-to-severe levels of pain with stent removal, with an overall mean pain of 4.8 on a scale of 1 to 10.

If it was placed because of severe pain from a stone, stent discomfort is usually significantly less. Most patients will experience some discomfort which may include pain in the back, flank and pelvis, urinary urgency and frequency, and intermittent blood in the urine.

How will I feel after surgery? You may still experience pain after laser surgery. If you have a stent between the kidney and ureter, most pain will likely come from the stent because it can rub on the kidney or bladder. It also can make you feel like you have to urinate, and it may cause some blood in the urine.

Some benefits of this type of procedure include pain relief, being able to avoid a more invasive surgical procedure, and reducing the chances of developing a urinary blockage or damage to the kidney. Some potential cons of lithotripsy for kidney stones include potential complications such as kidney infections or kidney damage due to the procedure.

What to Expect After Lithotripsy Treatment. Most patients will pass blood in the urine after the procedure. This is to be expected. Some patients, especially those with large stones, experience discomfort, fever or intestinal upset as the stone particles pass.

The normal recovery time for open kidney stone surgery is about six weeks. The urologist will go over the recovery process with the patient before the surgery. Some kidney-stone patients must contend with a stent in the ureter during recovery. The stent is a tube in which the urine flows while the ureter heals.

A: Extra-corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy ( ESWL ), a technique used to treat kidney and ureteric stones are known to be a safe procedure with no known established long-term side effects. However, it is important to mention here that, some studies both in animals and humans have pointed towards a small…