Okay folks, let me start from the beginning. A week ago yesterday mother nature had already come for a visit (aka, my period) and also in addition to that I had experienced my first Kidney Stone ever…

I am a 32 year old woman, so I didn’t know what was what, I kept feeling pain at first but passed it off as a menstrual cramp. Nothing I was taking helped. The pain would come and go in waves until Tuesday of last week I had had enough and went t the ER. They Catscan’d me and all that good stuff, they said they couldn’t see the stone but saw evidence that it was there. They gave me morphine and a script for Vicodin and sent me home.

less that 18 hours later, I experiment pain VERY differently and I was SCREAMING, almost called 911.. went back to the ER at 3 AM and they said I had a kidney infection and was shocked and floored that the doctor during the first ER visit did NOT put me on antibiotics… for 3 hours there bey 6 AM they had apparently flushed out the infection with was apparently in it’s final stages.. and sent me home.

Now, everyone, I am left scared here, I never want to have to go through that again… even after the 2nd ER visit, after the infection and stone were declared gone, was still SORE and sleeping round the clock for almost 3 days, thanks to Vicodin.

So, first I do not understand why I was in sore discomfort even after the stone and infection were gone… It blew my mind… why?

and 2. I don’t want this to happen again, everyone told me it was NOT my fault it had occurred but told me to help prevent another by drinking more water. They told me kidney stones are made of Calcium, so okay, I have MS and my doctor has me on a Vitamin D/Calcium supplement, and I wonder now… by me having to take THAT for my MS, am taking more calcium, could that have been the cause of the kidney stone since I was told that they are formed of calcium…?

It is as easy as drinking water to help prevent another stone…?

Was it my fault that I had one cause I didn’t drink enough water?

Why was I hurting with soreness after stone and infection were gone…?

And do taking Calcium supplements encourage the production of stones?

This is a long involved question and I am sorry if anyone gets confused… but my mind won’t stop racing with these thoughts, can anyone put my mind at ease?

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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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I swallowed the mercury out of an old thermometer about 23 years ago. About 8 years ago I had a very bad kidney infection and was told at that point that I had a kidney stone, a very small one. About 4 months ago or so I was having some abdominal pain and my doctor felt a "mass" so she sent me to have an abdominal CT. There were several findings, one of which is that I have a kidney stone. Could the mercury I swallowed all those years ago be stuck in my kidney?

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My vagina is lined with white… it kinda looks and feels like toilet paper. i recently had a kidney infection and a kidney stone.. but they never looked to see if i had a yeast infection. i feel like an std might have more symptoms. but ive looked up pictures of what both of these look like and they look nothing like what i have.. i was fingered while on my period with the tampon in but took out the tampon before sex

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Yesterday i went to the e.r and had a kidney stone and later found out i had a kidney infection I was peeing blood in my urine. It was the most unbearable pain I had ever experienced in my life.They sent me home with antibiotics and painkillers and said i should drink more fluids and rest because that will help me heal.do you guys have anymore tips because I will probably not be back to my old self for another 2 weeks.

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I’m 16 and I have severe pain in my lower back/sides of back and I used the symptom checker on Web MD and it suggested that I may have kidney stones. I recently had a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) and I got antibiotics, but I’ve read that if you don’t get a UTI treated quickly enough, you could get a kidney infection or kidney stones. Could someone explain to me what this could possibly be?

Also, when you have kidney stones, do you get the back pain first or do the actual stones come out first?
I’m also feeling nauseous and have a stomach ache.

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ok i have been sexually active for like 3 years i have had a UTI,bladder infection kidney infection and yeast infection before i know what all these are and i know for a fact its not none of these….. but anyways i have this white discharge no smell and every time i have intercourse it hurts in some positions and some times i randomly get these pains in my lower right side i guess where you would say my ovaries are but i don’t know im not a doctor. Then like when i urinate i hurt like i feel like its emptying and i have to move a certain way for it not to i did a symptom checker it said it could be kidney stones but i don’t know and i don’t have money to be going to a doctor so that’s out of the question and i don’t like the idea of someone i don’t know going down there so a qyno is out of the question also…. if someone is or has experienced the same thing or if you have any advice i would appreciate it

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Long story short i had a kidney infection in my right kidney and was put on antibiotics. The kidney pain came back so i got switched to a stronger antibiotic. It cleared everything up and my urine was even clear. I didnt miss a dose but after six days of feeling fine the pain returned in my left kidney. I feel fine otherwise but before pain was the initial symptom and then i got a fever. I got checked for kidney stones last week and i dont have any. What could this be? Is it the infection again?

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For the past 2 weeks ive been having sharp pain in my lower right side of back near where the kidneys would be. It last about 5 mins then goes away. That is the only symptom im having, no fever, not feeling sick, drink plenty of water, no pressure on bladder. could it be kidney infection or stones?

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I went to the doctor to be treated for a UTI and she said that there was glucose in my urine. Didn’t say how much. Could a UTI or kidney infection cause this?
That was what I thought. I’ll have it rechecked after my infection is gone. Thanks for your input!

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I had pain in back on side and on side in front for a little while. Now it’s suddenly gone. I was thinking kidney infection or stones but if there are stones, then why did the pain and symptoms go away? It’s been gone for over ten days now. I know the stones don’t just disappear! LOL Maybe it was just an infection that went away on its own? I was going to see a doc about it til it went away. What gives?

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i had a urinary tract infection 2 days ago, but it gone. but now, my sides feel soar. i know i don’t have kidney stones, they did a x-ray, my kidney were fine. i looked up symptoms for a kidney infection but i don’t have any symptoms, i don’t have:
Fever (usually present) and/or chills
Feeling sick (malaise)
Nausea and vomiting
Blood in the urine (hematuria)
Cloudy or foul-smelling urine
Pain when urinating
Increased frequency or urgency of urination

i been taking penicillin, which killed my UTI, do u think i have a kidney infection now & should on keeping taking penicillin?

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I have had this mysterious pain in my lower right abdomen since the beginning of January, accompanied by a low-grade fever (99.1 average). I have been to the ER twice because the pain got so severe I couldn’t stand it. I have had two CT scans done, a plethora of blood tests, ultrasounds, the works. The pain went away for a few days a couple of weeks ago, but now it is back, and worse than ever. I have had some diarrhea but no vomiting, have swollen lymph nodes and my white blood cell count is very slightly higher than average. Things that have been ruled out:

Appendicitis
Constipation
Pregnancy
Ectopic Pregnancy
Ovarian Cysts
Polycystic Ovary Disease
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Endometriosis
Diverticulitis
Kidney Stones
Kidney Infection
Urinary Tract Infection

I am feeling somewhat at a loss as to what to do next. None of the five doctors I have seen seem to be able to help, or to even tell me what’s wrong. I think I should get a colonoscopy, but I am young and otherwise healthy, and I don’t have insurance. If I have to do this expensive procedure, I want to make sure it’s the right move, because I have already racked up medical bills of thousands of dollars that I have to pay out of pocket trying to get this thing diagnosed. Anyone have any insight? Hopefully someone here has some medical education.
Oh, I forgot to add that sometimes the pain goes down into my right thigh. It is usually a dull, achy sort of pain, but right now it is more of a sharp, stabby pain that has spread up to my side just over my right hip. Usually it stays in the pelvic region. It’s getting worse, hence the concern.

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I have had problems with my kidneys since i was about 8 years old and am now 20, kidney stones, kidney infections, badder and UT infections. I literally have a kidney infection about every 2 months, and between infections i get antibiotics, which normally cures the pain within my 4th pill or so..but they always come back a few weeks to a months later. Well, my symptoms are normally achenes in kidneys, no energy, pain when i pee..that’s about it. This infection i have now is different. Ive had it for about 3 months and went to the doctor the other day, not for the infection, but because i was running a fever of 102 and literally felt so weak, i thought i was getting the flu or something. She said i had an infection, so she gave me some pretty strong antibiotics. Ive been taking the antibiotics for about 4 days, and every day the pain in my right kidney will switch to my left and so on. It hurts like a muther to stand up, and my pee is like brown. Why aren’t the antibiotics working like they normally do this time..and what should i do?

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my doctor told me on this past monday that i have a UTI (urinary tract infection) he prescribed me an antibiotic but no pain killer. . i went to the er that night for excruciating pain in my right lower abdomen and lower back. while there they explained to me that i also had a kidney infection after having given me a cat scan. i went in at 2:30am and was released around 5:30am. well later yesterday afternoon. the head radiologist called me to let me know that they hadn’t seen it the first time they looked at the cat scan, but that i had a 1 mm kidney stone that could pass in a couple day. well now every time i pee i’m so scared that it will pass. i have no idea what to expect. i was prescribed vikoden for the pain but i don’t like the way it made me feel. it kinda got rid of the pain but not completely. the radiologist gave me the number to a urologist and to call this morning, I know talking to him will help. but i’m still incredibly scared. Any advice? btw i’m a 20 year old female

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So I’ve never had a kidney infection or kidney stone before. I’m afraid I have one now, but I’m not sure how to tell for sure. I woke up this morning with UTI symptoms and then about 15 minutes later I had THE WORST pains on my lower-ish left side of my back. It was super bad. After maybe 20 minutes it went away. All of this within the past 2 hours this morning. Also, off and on for about the past week I’ve had UTI symptoms. What do you think based on your experience with it? I can’t go to the doctor until about 4pm today (unless the bad back pain comes back).

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what to drink or eat??? also how can i tell a kidney stone from kidney infection?

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So I’ve never had a kidney infection or kidney stone before. I’m afraid I have one now, but I’m not sure how to tell for sure. I woke up this morning with UTI symptoms and then about 15 minutes later I had THE WORST pains on my lower-ish left side of my back. It was super bad. After maybe 20 minutes it went away. All of this within the past 2 hours this morning. Also, off and on for about the past week I’ve had UTI symptoms. What do you think based on your experience with it? I can’t go to the doctor until about 4pm today (unless the bad back pain comes back).

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Yes, yes, I know this isn’t the medical category, but they never answer there. So I’ve never had a kidney infection or kidney stone before. I’m afraid I have one now, but I’m not sure how to tell for sure. I woke up this morning with UTI symptoms and then about 15 minutes later I had THE WORST pains on my lower-ish left side of my back. It was super bad. After maybe 20 minutes it went away. All of this within the past 2 hours this morning. Also, off and on for about the past week I’ve had UTI symptoms. What do you think based on your experience with it? I can’t go to the doctor until about 4pm today (unless the bad back pain comes back).

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Last October (a little over a year ago) I had a 6mm kidney stone lodged in my ureter. I ended up getting ecoli in my blood and my kidney was filled with pus.

I am on here today because I am having back pain. Have been for weeks now. It’s a deep pain just above my hips. I can pin point it but it’s deep. My stomach hurts deep in the same spot and I have been having "hunger pains". I have no clue what that is. I had gas earlier and it made me nausous to let it out. It actually felt good for my husband to hit me in the back. Although, I love a good massage so I may have trained myself to feel pain as being a good thing at this point. I had him hitting my back last time I got a kidney infection. This time, may or may not be one, it’s back pain, side pain and stomach pain. I am very tender and I swear, I can feel it all the way down to the groin area.

At this moment it feel almost like a gas pain under the front of my ribs. I have a burning, stinging pain down to the right of my belly button halway between my rips and hips. My back hurts really deep just about even with the top of the back of my pelvic bones. But it’s deep in there and more twords the outer edge of the muscles surrounding my spine. To pinpoint the pain I have to push in deep from the side, kinda at an angle. When I was standing in my bathroom, I pushed on my stomach and it caused the back pain to act up worse. A moment ago I had a stinging kind of groin pain as I lay here, but that could be the prolapses.

Lately I have been having these hunger pains after eating. At times it almost feels as if my stomach is eating away at itself. And I have been having tons of gas like pains, although, not always with gas. And I have had chest pains mostly on the left side, kinda gas like. The back pain is on the right as well as the low pain. It kinda feel like something is sitting between the hip and ribs. Like when I was pregnant. I just feel full. No, I am not pregnant.

I am on Daily Aspirin. I have been for 8 months to a year. I am 28 years old with Fibromyalgia, a prolapsed bladder, uterus and rectum. I have had right hip pain for 8 years, although this is not that pain.

Last time my urine smelled rancid. It does not smell yet.

3 months ago I went to the ER a few times and there was blood in my urine and crystals. They did imaging and there were no stones. I went to the ER mostly due to fear. It was 1 year from my last stone.

What is this? Is it a stone? Is it the aspirin eating my stomach?

Oh, and I have no fever that I know of.

I also suffer from Fibromyalgia and a prolapsed bladder, uterus and rectum. And I keep having gas like pains and chest pains. It just feels like there is something in there. In my body. Something that doesn’t belong. It almost reminds me of when I was pregnant and the baby got her feet over there where my ribs are. But I am not pregnant.

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Well almost 2 weeks ago i was admitted to children’s hospital for 9 days,
then released. (i stopped peeing for days, bad flank pain, my BUN was a little higher than normal) – i was given a antibiotic through I.V. twice a day for the 9 days i was there. anyways, 3 days after coming home i got thrush, so my doctor gave me Bactrim DS 800mg 2x a day. Now tonight, i started feeling faint,dizzy/light headed,my heart felt like it was racing,my hands and legs are REALLY shakey, i feel weak and
i noticed my cheeks were bright red and hot. So i took my temp and it reads, 99.9 F. i took it again 20mins later and it was 97.9 F and i felt normal. Then all my symptoms come back after 30mins of taking my temp so i check it again and it reads 100.2 F. – Can someone tell me what i should do? I took a fever reducer when i first took my temp. (About a hour ago) I’m so sick of doctors, i don’t really want to go back to the doctors so i was hoping someone on here could give me a few clues on what this might be and what i should do about it. Thanks!

P.S. When i was admitted i had a possible kidney infection and kidney stones.
My urine output for the past 48hours is 250mls and ive been drinking lots of water,
as well as gatorade. I cant really eat anything, when i do i get a strong urge to
vomit. (that’s been going on for a little over a week now)
Also i get blurred vision (not normal for me)
every-now-and-then. (when i feel weak,shakey and my heart races.)

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Hello. Im a 23 yr old female, healthy and active. i woke up Saturday morning with my back feeling a little off. Not too bad though. But it was very uncomfortable to walk. Lower back, left side, not right where my kidneys are but lower above the hip. I thought maybe it was from wearing heels, i always wear them so i dont know. So the next day on Sunday (yesterday) it was way better, i didnt feel a thing, BUT i did wake up feeling achy all over, my body, my legs, my arms, my thighs, even the muscles in my tummy, like my abs, almost as if i went to wrk out the night before which i didnt, i felt all sore. Dont know if i was getting a fever or not, So sunday night last night the aches pretty much were gone, but the lower back discomfort started coming back. I went to sleep, this morning i woke up fine, i work in a office sitting in a cubicle all day, ive never had back problems before in my life. But since this morning its getting worse. Its a sharp shooting pain, almost like someone is pressing down or against my back, feels like the pain is radiating down to my buttocks even down my thighs at times. sometimes i feel okay, the discomfort is still there but all of a sudden sharp shooting pain on my left side lower back. I have no other symptoms. No fever, no aches, no chills. So is this a sprain or broken muscle of some sort or a kidney stone, or kidney infection? Im going to my doctor today once i get off work. I cant wait i cannot stand it! Why is it that it went away Sunday and just came back, wouldnt a sprain or broken /tightened muscle stay there? the pain wouldnt just go away and re-appear? This is why im thinkin that its maybe something to do with a kidney stone or infection cause the pain went and came back. BUT its NOT in the KIDNEY AREA. Hurts to walk, and even just sit here. Feels like theres a huge boulder sitting inside my lower back! feel all tensed up. Please someone what could this be?
Oh AND i took ibuprofen this morning, four of them 200miligrams each and i took 4. And it did absolutely nothing, i put bengey that cream that smells and makes ur back hot. i put a pillow on my chair. Nothing is helping to relieve this pain. NOTHING.

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Well almost 2 weeks ago i was admitted to children’s hospital for 9 days,
then released. (i stopped peeing for days, bad flank pain, my BUN was a little higher than normal) – i was given a antibiotic through I.V. twice a day for the 9 days i was there. anyways, 3 days after coming home i got thrush, so my doctor gave me Bactrim DS 800mg 2x a day. Now tonight, i started feeling faint,dizzy/light headed,my heart felt like it was racing,my hands and legs are REALLY shakey, i feel weak and
i noticed my cheeks were bright red and hot. So i took my temp and it reads, 99.9 F. i took it again 20mins later and it was 97.9 F and i felt normal. Then all my symptoms come back after 30mins of taking my temp so i check it again and it reads 100.2 F. – Can someone tell me what i should do? I took a fever reducer when i first took my temp. (About a hour ago) I’m so sick of doctors, i don’t really want to go back to the doctors so i was hoping someone on here could give me a few clues on what this might be and what i should do about it. Thanks!

P.S. When i was admitted i had a possible kidney infection and kidney stones.
My urine output for the past 48hours is 250mls and ive been drinking lots of water,
as well as gatorade. I cant really eat anything, when i do i get a strong urge to
vomit. (that’s been going on for a little over a week now)
Also when i start feeling faint,weak,shakey and my heart races i get blurred
vision.

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Hello. Im a 23 yr old female, healthy and active. i woke up Saturday morning with my back feeling a little off. Not too bad though. But it was very uncomfortable to walk. Lower back, left side, not right where my kidneys are but lower above the hip. I thought maybe it was from wearing heels, i always wear them so i dont know. So the next day on Sunday (yesterday) it was way better, i didnt feel a thing, BUT i did wake up feeling achy all over, my body, my legs, my arms, my thighs, even the muscles in my tummy, like my abs, almost as if i went to wrk out the night before which i didnt, i felt all sore. Dont know if i was getting a fever or not, So sunday night last night the aches pretty much were gone, but the lower back discomfort started coming back. I went to sleep, this morning i woke up fine, i work in a office sitting in a cubicle all day, ive never had back problems before in my life. But since this morning its getting worse. Its a sharp shooting pain, almost like someone is pressing down or against my back, feels like the pain is radiating down to my buttocks even down my thighs at times. sometimes i feel okay, the discomfort is still there but all of a sudden sharp shooting pain on my left side lower back. I have no other symptoms. No fever, no aches, no chills. So is this a sprain or broken muscle of some sort or a kidney stone, or kidney infection? Im going to my doctor today once i get off work. I cant wait i cannot stand it! Why is it that it went away Sunday and just came back, wouldnt a sprain or broken /tightened muscle stay there? the pain wouldnt just go away and re-appear? This is why im thinkin that its maybe something to do with a kidney stone or infection cause the pain went and came back. BUT its NOT in the KIDNEY AREA. Hurts to walk, and even just sit here. Feels like theres a huge boulder sitting inside my lower back! feel all tensed up. Please someone what could this be?

Oh AND i took ibuprofen this morning, four of them 200miligrams each and i took 4. And it did absolutely nothing, i put bengey that cream that smells and makes ur back hot. i put a pillow on my chair. Nothing is helping to relieve this pain. NOTHING.

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I’ve had this pain since june 1, 2008. Kidney looks good on cat scan. diagnosed with kidney infection june 3, 2008. that cleared up. but pain is still there. doctors are baffled. I feel somewhat nervous about this pain. Anybody got any advice. I’m 41yr. old female with type 1 diabetes not overweight. Help!

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