Considering the pain that comes along with passing kidney stones, why is sedation/anesthesia not an option during the operation?

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Considering the pain that comes along with passing kidney stones, why is sedation/anesthesia not an option during the operation?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Anesthesia is relatively dangerous. You need to be monitored by a professional anesthesiologist and there is a risk of life-threatening complications. When the issue is someone’s ureter spasming painfully there just isn’t any reason to undergo such a risk. It can also take a relatively long time to pass a kidney stone, potentially *weeks*. It would be extremely unsafe to try to keep someone sedated for that long.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Passing stones doesn’t just happen during the operation, it happens afterwards and for quite a while, unless they are lasered.

When they are doing the lasering you are under a general though.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Wait, what? I’ve had about 5 kidney stones in my life, and not once was I operated on without sedation/anaesthesia. Which country does this? Each time I went to the clinic, I was given immediately the painkiller Diclofenac.

I’ve undergone lithotripsy about 3 times. The last time was between January and March, during which I had a maximum of 5 sessions for a single kidney stone. You’re sedated for the 45-minute session. The last 5 minutes are extremely painful, even with sedation.

The pain that comes with kidney stones is number 1 on my list, even though I experience episodes of terrible cluster headaches for which I need to inject myself with sumatriptan.