Kidney Stone Normal Medication. So your doctor may want to adjust your regular medications if you have had kidney stones. But even small kidney stones can be painful although the pain usually only lasts a couple of days and disappears when these stones have cleared.
Taking medications such as triamterene diuretics. Kidney stones usually pass on their own without causing any long term problems if they don t or if you re in a lot of pain your doctor can break up or remove the crystals. Examples of alpha blockers include tamsulosin flomax and the drug combination dutasteride and tamsulosin jalyn.
Larger kidney stones or kidney stones that block your urinary tract or cause great pain may need urgent treatment.
However in people with normal kidney function this isn t a concern. Kidney stones usually pass on their own without causing any long term problems if they don t or if you re in a lot of pain your doctor can break up or remove the crystals. Your doctor may give you a medication to help pass your kidney stone. Even through they are commonly called kidney stones the crystals can form anywhere in the urinary tract including the bladder or the ureters the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder 1 the medical term for the occurrence of kidney stones is urolithiasis 1.