At home stent pulling.

I (43 year old male with history of stones) had A procedure Friday to blast 3 in my right side, they placed a stent and left me with a sting to pull it out with.

I took one of the 5 mg pain pills my doc prescribed, drank a bunch of water, and stood under the hot shower, took a deep breath, and gave a steady but gentle pull as I was urinating and the stent was out in 5 seconds and I felt zero pain.

The absolute worst part of the whole thing was that my doctor didn’t leave me sufficient string length to keep the plastic pieces on the end of the string from irritating the end of my unit. I did not like that and next time will ask him for an extra few inches of string.