After laser lithotripsy, my stent just yeeted itself out
Stone Fighter #C514EESep 8, 2026👁️ 241❤️ 175- Strategy
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About two weeks back I headed to the ED showing signs of a nasty UTI. They ended up putting a stent in. Turns out I had a large (13mm) kidney stone sitting there, and they needed the stent draining properly so they could go after the infection.
The stent was pure misery, so I was itching to get my follow-up booked ASAP.
Today I went in to have the stone broken up with laser lithotripsy. My surgeon also put in a brand new stent. I was the last surgery of the day and everything ran way behind, so by the time I'd mostly recovered from the anesthesia, most people had already headed home.
Once I managed my first post-op pee, urine started leaking out of me nonstop. Seems like my body was not ready to deal with a second stent, because it pushed the thing right back out. I had somewhere around 5 inches of stent peeking out.
There was nobody left around at that point except a resident, who told me to just let the nurse pull the entire stent out and give them a call in the morning.
Has anybody else had this happen to them? Am I likely looking at yet another stent?
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Stone Fighter #F48373May 12, 2026Hate to break it to you, but come 9am someone will probably call to schedule a new stent placement, likely that same day, possibly right in the office.
Stone Fighter #857783May 12, 2026Dang. Can they even do that with just local anesthesia? Going under general again is the last thing I want to deal with.
Stone Fighter #F48373May 12, 2026They do at my office? Honestly, it wasn't bad. They use numbing gel, then a needle with local, then they lube the thing up with numbing gel (it's on a camera hook thing) and run the camera up slowly, making sure nothing's damaged, then get it placed and use the thing to press the Y open. Then back down slowly, checking again all the way to the end, pop the other y/j open, then pull the camera thing the rest of the way out. That said, mine was replacing a stent they had taken out, not one th...
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