These guys keep returning (since I was 20).Yes, I have had lithotripsy but a surpise to US folks,
the med system here is something to scream at. People don't have GPs. I have to do my own diagnoses and make sure I get copies of all the reports done on me because the next person I see (after waiting in line since 8 am), won't have the slightest idea what I'm about. It takes 6 months here to get lithotripsy. Imagine if it were already at the screeching pain level. I never leave home without my big drugs.
Not really whining about pain, it's just that food is one of the few things left to enjoy and the list of what I can't eat is larger than the other.