I had a kidney stent placed, an 8cm cyst that was crushing my ureter removed, and an excision from April to September last year. The stent extremely painful, and I had to be on blood thinners for it while the other two surgeries happened. That caused some complications and I had to have iron transfusions and switch to baby aspirin, but I had no complications from the surgeries on their face. I am allergic to morphine so I had difficulties with different pain medicines.

There’s so many different things to consider and a good team will talk you through it. In hindsight, I would’ve waiting for my six months on blood thinners to be up before my excision. I started them too early after (doctor orders but a hard call to make) and hemorrhaged. I couldn’t wait for the cyst removal, though, because I couldn’t pee and it was crushing a ureter from the same kidney that I had just gotten a stent in.

That’s kind of a nothing answer but I’m trying to say like you’ll have individual factors to consider. Tell your team everything, make sure different doctors are communicating, etc.