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Are there good ways to get a kidney stone to start moving?

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See below: The general advise is to drink more fluids , and this makes you pass larger quantity of urine which can cause a mechanical movement of the stone depending on its size.

Dr Kandarpa agreed

Answered 3/27/2020

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