Hello, I have been having a TREMENDOUS pain on my left side for 3 weeks now. I do not have insurance so i tried to avoid going to the doctor and since I passed 2 kidney stones back in 98, I figured this one is kidney stones as well (similar pain and locations). I could not bare the pain anymore and headed to a cheap doctor who knew less than I do about kidney stones and simply prescribed me the medicine I recommended to him…What a joke. Anyway, thanks to the internet, i told the doctor to give me flomax and he did. My pain would go away during the day a few days before i started my medication and it would come back at night and early morning, VERY BAD. Ever since i started to take the flomax, I have no kidney stone pain or symptoms. What the heck? While it feels amazing, at the same time it scares me. What is it going on guys? Any ideas?

Doctor also gave me pain medication (oxycodone) and I took only one 3 days ago (the day i got it).

Do you think flomax relaxed my ureter and the stone is no longer pressuring and urine is passing through and that is why it is not hurting anymore? I definitely havent passed the stone..
I will go get ultrasound done sometime soon, but I am just curious what is going on. If any doctors on this site have any ideas and would like to share them. Flomax took the pain away.. hmm…
I am feeling 100% normal, I have no symptoms of anything. I was advised to take the medication for a couple weeks or three and then go get ultrasound to find out the size of the stone. I am assuming this is a stone because it feels like it did last time. What else could be? PLEASE do not tell me to go to doctor and leave at that. I am very well aware of it and I have and I will again if nothing changes.

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A few months ago I had A kidney stone show up in an annual sonogram. The stone was not obstructing anything so I have not had any pain or symptoms. It was about 5 to 7 millimeters. I have only one kidney so my doctors wanted me to have the shock therapy which I did exactly two weeks ago with a stent. I have been straining and not seen any stone fragments passing. The stent was removed three days ago and I had an x-ray. The stone was split in three fragments.

How long should it take for this stone to finally pass?

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I’ve researched a lot about kidney stones, and about how they feel.

Well, every now in then i’ll get a sharp pain in my lower back, inside where all of my organs are.

I always think it’s a kidney stone, but everytime I go to the hospital, there isn’t any.

Here are the medicines I take on a daily basis, plus a few vitamins. It’s alot, so please don’t say anything. I can’t help what these stupid doctors got me addicted to.

Magnesium, B12, Mega men vitamins, Strattera, Geodone, Vistaril, Suboxone, Baclofen, Remeron, Metapolol, Bisacodyl Laxatives, and Stool softners. I also take something for my acid reflux disease, normally pepcid AC

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My boyfriend found out on Wednesday that he has a kidney stone that is 3.6mm wide. He still has pain in his side and his back. When the doctors did a cat scan on Wednesday, it showed that it was just about to drop down into his bladder. Should he go back to the doctor to see if it got stuck? Or is it normal to still feel this pain even after it dropped into is bladder?

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For almost 3 weeks now, I’ve been having the symptoms of a really bad kidney infection. But testing my urine, nothing came up. I’ve been in and out of the doctors almost every day. There’s horrible pain in my lower back on both the right side, and left side. Just normally, they feel about the same, but when the doctors push on my kidneys, the right side is almost unbearable, and the left side is a bit more tolerable. They’ve tried using antibiotics, but only the very strong IV medication has helped, and only for two days. When I have to go to the bathroom, my pelvic area cramps up and I need to go right then. When actually going, I cramp up even worse. It’s take a few minutes to actually start going to the bathroom, so I sit there all cramped. My lower back pain hurts a lot worse in the morning, and feels a bit better as the days goes on. I’ve puked twice now, and I’m always either freezing cold, or boiling. I’ve gotten an ultra sound, but nothing showed up. There’s not blockage, no stones, nothing that looks alarming to the doctors. I’m bruising very easily, and cuts are healing very, very slowly. I don’t have the urge to eat, and I’m constantly tired, even after having a nice 10 hour nights sleep. At night when the pain in my back is keeping me awake, I get a very bad headache and my whole face feels really cold. Then when I put on a sweatshirt I get really hot and start to sweat. I have white blood cells in my urine, but no blood and no bacteria for a UTI. The doctors are coming up with nothing, and I refuse to take Vicodin anymore. Does anyone know what it could be? If I have something to suggest to the doctors, maybe they can go off that and go into more tests to try and figure out what’s going on. Thank you for any help.

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Well i was admitted in Children’s hospital for 9 days for
kidney problems ( Possible infection/stone ) I was given
a I.V. Antibiotic every 12 hours, As well as other I.V. medications
for other problems and pain. I was released two days ago,
at my 7th day at the hospital i began to start a fever – 99.8
8th day 99.6 – 9th day 99.8. they still however, released me.
Well now i’m still having a fever (goes up to 101.8) headache, swollen
glands in my neck mostly on the right side **I have had the gland on the right side
surgically drained due to cat scratch fever disease a few years back.** My sinuses are fine-not stuffed up. My throat hurts – hurts like hell when i swallow.
i noticed tonight there are these little lines up and down in the back of my throat. ( i do not have my tonsils. ) Also i have a bad cough (loud barking sound, last for a few minutes, i gasp for air during the coughing fits.) i cough up Brown/Rusty colored stuff (in big amounts) i have no wheezing. Vomiting (ive threw up 4 times today.) My parents are now starting to get my symptoms.
What is this? I was on antibiotics while in the hospital but is there
still a chance i caught something from being around other sick children?
P.S. THE DOCTORS SAID MY KIDNEYS ARE FINE NOW AND
THERE WAS NO INFECTION WHEN I LEFT – AND THEY SAID
THEY DIDNT SEEM TO CATCH ANY STONES BUT THEY STILL
PUT ON MY RECORD POSSIBLE STONE THAN A INFECTION

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i think i have a urinary tract infection or a bladder infection, but i want to try and get rid of it on my own by drinking cranberyy juice. How much cranberry juice should i drink each day to get rid of it? :) pleaase dont tell me to go to the doctors either, thankyou :) btw im 14 years old if that helps.

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I’m a 52 year old man in what most would think is in very good physical condition. Six months ago I started passing visible blood in my urine. After seeing several doctors the best answer I could get from them was that I was having kidney stones. The urine went from tea colored to the color of cranberry juice. There was never any pain. I’ve had stones in the past and as anyone who has had them before can tell you, the pain they cause is the worst they’ve ever felt.

I discovered that the bleeding was brought on by the use of Advil. I would go weeks with no problems, then take Advil for an unrelated issue. Within three hours I began to see the blood again.
Needless to say, I quit taking Advil, Aspirin or Alieve as the are all NSAIDS and cause bleeding.

Since then, I’ve only had one incidence of visible blood. However, Now I’m experiencing another symptom that has me scared and baffled. I work construction for a living. In the past few weeks my stamina has fallen way off. I become extremely fatigued after only a few hours on the job. After going home my body seems to become one giant nerve to emit pain. I can only compare to the body aches that one feels during the onset of a bad case of the flu. No fever or chills. No joint pain. Just muscle aches. While the urine appears to be of normal color, I wonder if there is something connected here.

Since the doctors have been useless, I am hoping someone here can help give me some answers.

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I was on the yasmin for 1yr. with very heavy bleeding and bad migraines. but then the doctor changed it to yaz because my ins. didn’t cover yasmin anymore. So the migraines continued and so did the bleeding, but 2yrs. ago I stopped the pill for 1 week and got pregnant. after I found out I was pregnant they found out that I had a large fibroid in my uterus which cause me a lot of trouble in my pregnancy. Also I had stones and a infection in my kidneys , that almost caused me to miscarriagee my baby at 5 months. after I had the baby I kept taking the pills and 1yr. later I have not 1 but 2 fibroids, and lots of stress and anxiety. I just stopped taking these pills 5 months ago because the doctors said that the tumors keep getting bigger because of the hormones in the pill. Has anyone had something similiar happen to them. I still don’t know if the pill is to blame!

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My girlfriend has been to the hospital several times, getting xrays and everything, but the doctors can’t find anything. She has an excruciatingly bad pain in what she believes is her kidney, yet the times she has gone the doctors can’t find anything. What could it be? Could she have torn a muscle or could it be an imperceptibly small kidney stone?

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ok first lets rule out what I dont have since I’ve been to several doctors and been tested, DON’T have diabetes, UTI, no kidney/gallbladder stones, no abmoral kidney scans, not pregnant, don’t use drugs/smoke/alcohol.

heres what my symptoms are:

pee at night about three times a night its so frustrating wakes me up at night,
pee during the day more than your usual person I wanna say twice every hour sometimes even more and its really annoying.
my stress level is moderate
dry mouth
always thirsty due to dry mouth
no pain when I pee just my upper right side feels pressure when I have to pee and goes away when I pee, not painful just annoying.

I thought it could be overactive bladder but wouldn’t that mean that I would have to have a bladder infection, someone help any suggestions would help since i’ve been to several doctors and nothing they say that im normal.

One doctor did tell me that I had IBS, and have always had problems with this but never the bladder issue until recently for about two months

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so for the last several weeks i have had blood in my urine, but the doctors have not figured out why yet. (they have tested for infections and other problems of that nature) But on Saturday night i was in the car with my boyfriend and i suddenly felt the most intense crampy spasmy like pain in my back on the left side below my ribs. the pain was horrible, so bad that i passed out and he brought me to the ER, where they did CT scans, EKG, blood tests, etc and came up with nothing still. :( The doc told me that it could have been a kidney stone (without calcium or something) that wouldnt show up in the scans or i could have already passed the stone. Since then i have felt mostly fine, except a few less intense pains in the same area every once in a while. I’m going back to my regular doctor later this week for more tests, but im just wondering if this sounds like kidney stones? or if anyone else has any other thoughts? I’m just curious !(im 19 and no family history of kidney stones)

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right.. im 14 years old and for as long as i can remember i have been urinating blood for about 1 week at a time , around 2 times a year, every year.. not good..

i never went to the doctors because i thought it was NORMAL to be peeing red every now and then! now im older and have matured i realised its not normal so went to the doctors ( i have been about 4 times befor for this problem).. they took a urine sample and said it was an infection.. 3 lots of antibiotics later and it still hasn’t gone..yesterday morning ( around 7 ) my mum rushed me to hospital because i was having the most horrible pain where my kidneys were and i was crying coz it hurt SOOO much. . . they did loads of blood tests and samples and ex-rayss and the doctor said that there were dark shadows on my kidneys so i have to go for an ultrasound scan on friday so its more detailed..

i was just wondering.. cothank youey stones of really lasted about 5 years ?! and don’t you think i would of pee’d them out by now ? also i thought kidney were for older people ?

im confused lol..

thankyou guys xx

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I have a friend that has IC and also gets kidney stones a lot. She has been to doctors and they do very little to help her. She takes elmiron for the IC but the doctors don’t give her anything else. When the pain in unbearable she can’t tell if it’s kidney stones or an IC flare up so she goes to the ER but they usually just tell her she as a UTI and send her on her way with antibiotics. Sometimes she gets pain meds but it seems like the doctors don’t know what to do with her. She has a hard time working because of pain. She is only 32 years old and it seems like the doctors think she is too young to be having problems like this. I have been with her many times and seen how she gets treated and I just don’t understand how they could be that way. It seems like they don’t know anything about the disease or that she is making up how bad she hurts. She just needs help if anyone has any advice. She just went to the doctor the other day and he just blew her off basically and once again gave her a script for an antibiotic for a UTI. She has been diagnosed with IC about 2 years ago, but she has had problems with kidney stones since she was about 18. We have looked on the internet for info on IC and read everything there is to read, but if anyone has any info on maybe what meds she needs to ask about or something. Hopefully she can find a doctor to listen to her so far she hasn’t had any luck with that. Please only serious answers this is a serious question.

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Ive had several UTI’s lately and recently I had frequent urination, nausea, pain in my back and stomach etc. so I assumed it was another one. However, the doctors say my urine is CLEAR and I dont have any kidney stones or anything. I also know Im not pregnant.

What could be causing this frequent urination, bad back pain, and nausea?
*The back pain is on my lower right side…if that helps

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I am "turning a new leaf" in my life. Trying to make healthier choices because I have realized that I am 20 and already have too many health problems to worry about. I don’t want my next 60 plus years on this earth to be miserable and filled with doctor appointments and prescriptions. So I am making some changes. I’m starting small so I don’t overwhelm myself and give up. I am a HUGE pop drinker. I used to drink mainly Mountain Dew with a Pepsi here and there. Then a few months ago I started drinking more Diet Pepsi than Mountain Dew to cut down on the calories. But still, 2 twenty ounce Diet Pepsi’s at work then maybe a Mountain Dew or 2 when I come home is NOT GOOD. And to add to that I have kidney stones often. Probably due to excess pop but doctors seem to think its due more to calcium. Anyway after all the explanation my question is, Can I switch to drinking green tea? I love Lipton Diet Green Tea Mixed Berry. I have researched and some say it is better for you than pop, some say it’s not and to go buy the actual leaves and brew it yourself. But honestly, for someone as busy as I am and with limited "quick" options for satisfying drinks (I will drink water but I despise drinking water while eating. It is very unsatisfying to me.) what can I do?! I figured I would go with green tea because it has benefits but do I really need to go through all the trouble of brewing it myself or will the bottle stuff do? Some insight please!! Hope this isn’t all too confusing! lol

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Wednesday February 9th late at night I started to feel bad back pain. I went to bed thinking it was just back pain nothing else.

* I had not done anything to my back.
* I had not lifted anything to heavy.
* I had not fallen at all
* I had not been hit at all

Thursday February 10th I woke up early morning in alot of back pain. So much back pain that:

1.) I couldnt put any pressure on my back (meaning i couldnt put my back against anything)

2.) I could not stand up straight at all (I am so bent over and cannot stand straight at all I look like a question mark or the hunch back)

3.) The pain is horrible 10 or higher! Its from my butt to my neck. Most of the pain is lower back!

4.) I was getting sick from the pain (sick as in throwing up, when I move or even when laying still)

5.) The only thing I could keep down was toast.

6.) Nothing can touch my back a tiny bit of pressure makes the pain worse!

7.) I can hardly walk due to the pain in my back and the fact im bent so much

8.) I cannot do anything on my own do to all the pain and being bent so far.

I started calling my doctors about help due to everything heres the info that they have said and tests they ran and test results:

1.) Hospital ran a pee test saying my symptoms seemed like kidney stones.
—Answer came back I do not have kidney stone, but I do have small amounts of blood in my urine (not on period)

2.) Hosptial ran a xray to make sure of kidney stones
— Answer xray came out negative for kidney stones
—- Released from hospital with medication for a possible infection.

3.) Seen my normal doctor she ran a pee test, and checked me out.
—Answer Pee test came out with just small amounts of blood in my urine.
— Answer checking me out she said she thought I had some type of infection taking over my body so she gave me pain medications to cure my infection.
**** Pain medication did not help > actually made me really sick.

4.) Seen a sports care doctor (aka back doctor) They said they could tell I was not in good shape and said it was probably just a musle spasum. But said it was obvious I am not well. They did a xray of my spine.
—- Answer, xray showed my l4 & l5 lumbar are fused together
**** Doctor said maybe that is why I’m in so much pain, they gave me pain medication and set me up for an mri to see if my nerves in my l4 & l5 lumbar are damanged or not.

5.) Pain medication did not help actually made me more sick

6.) February 22nd had my mri done.

7.) February 24th the doctor called and said my mri showed that my nerves are not damaged. But that my disk below my L5 is bulging.
**** They said that would be causing a little bit of the pain but not all the pain im in.
***** THey said they dont know what else is wrong and advised me to see a pain managment doctor.

8.) The doctor gave me pain medication and pain patches to wear but that is all they offered. They said when my pain goes to a 5 and im able to walk more and stand up more then ill have to go through physical therapy > but no idea when that will be.

With all that is said above,
1.) I’m still in alot of back pain
2.) I’m still unable to stand up (still bent downward!)
3.) I’m still getting sick off and on.
4.) Pain meds are not helping at all.
5.) Still unable to have anything touch my back as it adds more pain!
6.) Unable to do anything!

I’m looking for any advice, or ideas to try or even to look into! Anything would be appreciated! I’v delt with this for far to long, and cannot do anything at all! I’d like to have my life back. I’d like to find an answer or a different option to fix the pain issue so i’m able to stand up and have no pain or at least less pain! Right now doctors I’m personally seeing have thrown their hands up in the air and said they dont know and can no longer help. If you could please offer any kind of advice on what I should do or another type of doctor to look into seeing or even tell me something you think it could be so I can look up information on it or anything else I’d honestly with all my heart appreciate it! This has taken over my body, and has taken over my life. I no longer can live a normal life. I’d like to get back to normal and be able to do things again! Please…

Please! And thank you to those who offer any kind of advice or ideas or exc. Myself, and my family are trying so hard but were running out of ideas so I thought id try to get others help at this point. Ill do anything for answers. And maybe you can think of something we havnt or even my doctors havnt!

Thanks again!

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I’m just wondering how long I have to wait to have sex after a c-section..also, did it hurt for you, what did it feel like. And if anyone knows…can I have sex right after I have a lithotripsy? (It’s a procedure where they use sound waves to break up kidney stones) I’m gonna ask my doctors of course, I’m just curious now. I’m planned for a c-section on nov 12 and then after a few weeks have to have my stones dealt with. I’ve been in so much pain from the kidney stones that my hubby and I haven’t had sex in what feels like forever and I would really like to know when I’ll be able to again…

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Over the past few days I have been having painful preassure on my bowl or whatever
when I’m close to finishing peeing. I am feeling sick like the hungry feeling, I’m tired and drowsy and I can’t sleep, I’m going to bed at like 4 or 5 in the morning cuz I’m not tired and can not sleep
I’m only 13 so I’m not having sex
Is it a kidney stone? Should I go to the hospital? What kind of tests will they perform on me? Annyone is welcome to answer but if there is; I’d like a doctors opinion

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two months now, went to doctors, at first they didn’t know what my pain was, and then was supposed to go to venezuela for second opinion but couldn’t, tried remedies chanca peidra, tried warm beer first thing in the morning, i’m drinking at least 8 liters of water a day,

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I have been straining my urine for about 3 weeks now and have not found any stones. There were small pieces of bloody tissue…i assume from the stone moving. Is that normal and when should i pass this stone, Like i said it has moved what feels like as far as it can without coming out. the pain comes and goes throughout the day but it is just dull pain. When i try to pee i get a really sharp pain, it takes my breath away and makes me want to scream. I have tried everything. drinking lots of water but it doesn’t seem to be helping.
I woke up yesterday morning and the pain was so bad i could not walk. My boyfriend took me to the hospital and they did a CT scan. As far as they can tell I have a kidney stone lodged where my uiter enters my bladder. I have been advised to wait it out…I am going next week for a second opinion. I don’t see how the Doctors expect me to be able to work with this pain. They did give me pain medicine but as she was writing the prescription she said " this is going to get alot worse before it gets better" Ill keep you posted thanks for the help.

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my dad has a kidney stone and its about 6mm. the doctors are sending him home today and said to drink plenty of water to flush it out. i want to see if there are ways i can add to the water to get it out sooner so we can all take a relief chill pill. also, is drinking cold stuff a bad way or is it better to drink cold. basically, what can i do to help my dad other than hold a pitch of water behind him? any good smoothies i can easily make or a good fruit to detox the kidneys..ect
thanks alot :)

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I have been having problems with kidney ,UTI and bladder infections for a couple of months. I took medicine and they still came back and I was still having problems urinating. This past saturday I had to go to the emergency room because I had the worst pain in my right side. The doctors told me that I had a Kidney stone. I have been taking the pain meds perscribed since saturday morning.Today is the first day that I have not taken them. So how long do you think it takes for them to move? Because I have not really felt much pain since I left the hospital.

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I am on thyroid medication.50 levothroxine my thyroid runs low. I have been on this medication for about a year and they said it is working fine. May 6, 2010 I had lithotripsy for kidney stones.
On May 23 rd I started my period in which I hadn’t had one in 5 months started my period and two hours later in the middle of the night I felt chilled got up to change close and passed out.
I woke up and laid on the bed for a hour I felt like I had to go to the bathroom got up and went to the bathroom had diarrhea tried to get up from the toilet and passed out again. I tried to get up from the floor and passed out again. I was told by the doctors that the stones were not gone and were lodged in the ureter and was backing urine into the kidney which was toxic and that and the diarrhea made me pass out. Now My lymph nodes have been swollen off and on and going up into the left side of my head. It feels like something is draining on my left side of my gland in my throat I keep swallowing something. When this gland swells it gives me a light headache and the back of my neck hurts like there is another gland there or something. I also keep having hot flashes night and day. Sometimes it feel like something is lightly crawling on the left side of my head inside.
I have not had the flu or a cold in several years. I Have had some dental work but after all of this medical issues started. Please help me someone. I am 54 years old and don’t know what to do.
I talk to my doctor and he said we will take more lab work in two months. My last lab work had a weird reading saying my WBC is 3.8 L and should be 4.5 or higher. also the absolute granulocyte was 2.1 L should be 2.5 or higher. I have never had any chemo or anything like that.
Please if anyone has any answers for me PLEASE HELP ME !! I am really worried because it has been since May 2010 this has been going on and last week it has come back. One more important detail I feel lightheaded and dizzy all the time even while laying down.
Please help ! Thank you !

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So doctors thought i had PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease).They did a pelvic exam and found i had no STD which can cause PID. They also did a CT scan and found no inflamation in my pelvic area. Does this mean i can stop thinking i have this disease????? I also have a small ovarian cyst and 2 kidney stones, a bladder infection and fluid behind my uterus.

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