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Is there away to hurry up and speed up the passing of kidney stones instead of waiting painfully for 2 weeks until i go back to the urologist. ?

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Dr. Yaseen Odeh answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Size of stone: unfortunately kidney stones is a miserable experience . Depending on size up to 4 to 5 mm can be passes by gitting flomax (tamsulosin). 0.4 mg daily. Ivp , pain killers, fluids with oily content( like parsly boiled and drank, non alcoholic beer, smooth muscle relaxants and anti anxiety like small dosis of Valium ( 2 to 5 ) mg at bed time. These shown great help . But the best is to try avoid formation of stone

Answered 5/17/2015

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Dr. James Lin answered

Here are some ...: Advising to wait on a passing stone for 2 wks is largely decided by assessing the general available & individual specific experience in stone passage and balancing medical necessities and professional possibilities. There has been no known way to speed up stone passage but increasing oral fluid intake + using alpha-blocker. At imes, procedure may be done for intractable pain, possible infection,..

Answered 3/29/2015

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