What fun! Kidney stone!

[diverdoug]

I know someone who had lithotripsy. The newspaper described it as sitting in a bathtub with gentle vibrations in the water. My dad thought it was more like sitting in a swimming pool while someone threw sticks of dynamite into the water.

We usually give a general anesthetic for lithotripsy.

 

[beginish]

We usually give a general anesthetic for lithotripsy.

That's what they did with me. Thank god. The bruise that device left was, um, significant.

 

[Mojo88]

We usually give a general anesthetic for lithotripsy.

I was wating for my lithotripsy to begin and I was placed next to a paitent that just had the surgery done. He was asked by the nurses if he wanted pain medication.
He said in a very condensending tone that he had a high tolerence to pain and he didn't want or need that crap.
I just smiled and looked at my wife as the pain is not horrible after the procedure, but it is very uncomfortable. After 5 minutes his wife came over to the nurse and in a very low voice ask for pain medication. I started to laugh and the nurse giving me my IV started to laugh so hard she had to stop putting in my IV. So much for tough guys.