Do I have kidney stones?
I’ve had a few recurring UTI’s within the last 5 months. (Also…for the past 10 months, I’ve had blood in my urine in almost every lab work prior to some of my UTI’s and the doctor said that it wasn’t an alarming count and to not worry about it) About a week ago, I had symptoms of the beginning of a UTI….urgency, frequency, and flank/back pain (but no burning). My doctor started me on Ciprofloxacin and told me that if things didn’t progress by the end of the week to call back. Things didn’t get better, and he put me on Augmentin. I’m still having the urgency and frequency and flank pain. The flank pain ranges from a dull radiating pain to sharp pains that could send me to the floor. Could this be a UTI and I’m just "immune" to the antibiotics or is there a possibility that I have kidney stones?
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squacked off on December 30, 2009 at 11:49 am
It sounds like you could have kidney stones and you should ask your doctor to screen you for it. I had stones and the symptoms were similar to what your describing. Sometimes a person may have stones yet they don’t show up on an x-ray or ct scan . If you are imaged for stones and your doctor does not find any in the in the x-rays or pictures taken of your kidneys and your symptoms persist insist on another round of scans done with another radiologist that is informed on why it is that you are going in for a second round of images. This happened to me, and the x-ray tech knew exactly how to image my kidneys to find stones, and they were there, I had stones in both kidneys, and they were quite huge. Undetected by one round of imaging, and detected in the second. Good Luck,,