Your choice could be between letting the stone pass off in urine from your body on its own while using pain medications, or breaking up the stone to reduce the size to speed it along and lessen the pain. Try considering the following when making your choice.

If your stone is not made of cystine or uric acid, you have not had a stone earlier, and you are otherwise healthy and the size of your stone is small then there is a possibility of it passing on its own. It may also help determine the type of treatment most suitable for you.

The smaller the stone is, the more likely it is to pass off in urine on its own. About 9 out of every 10 stones smaller than 5 mm and about 5 out of every 10 stones 5 mm to 8 mm pass on their own.If in your case the stone is small it will probably pass off. You can control the associating pain with medication at home and normal pain medication may be enough. If the stone is not likely to pass as it is bigger than talk to your doctor about all your treatment options available to you.

If you cannot control your pain with normal pain medication, or if the stone is blocking the urine out flow, your best choice may be an ESWL treatment . ESWL may work best for kidney stones that are still located in the kidney. It may be a bit harder to break up a stone that has moved into the ureter, although this is still possible. You have options other than ESWL, but it is the most commonly used method because it is effective and does not require any surgery.

ESWL is not the only method used to break up kidney stones, but it is the most commonly used and preferred method because it does not require surgery or any intervention.