The tricep on my right arm has felt sore during the past three weeks. – This pain has gotten so intense occasionally that I can barely turn my head, when this knot in my muscle creeps up my shoulder.
In aim to remedy this pain, I follow the advice of my Grandmother, who passed away at the age of 103 years in 2010. Oma advised to take Calcium tablets. When I take Calcium tabs, the pain instantly subsides!
Myself being one who thinks "what if?", I’m considering the Side-effects that this Rx can cause elsewhere in my body. %Am I risking possible troubles in my kidneys or bladder (gall stones) in my body by increasing my calcium intake (600 mg tabs)?
I am taking these once every 12-hours….. <-Should the repetition of dosage matter how / if any side-effects become a problem?
At a recent dental visit, I asked and am told my Dentist to take Glucosamine Condroitin tabs for my muscle-condition. What are the side-effects to taking Glucosamine Condroitin instead of Calcium tablets to remedy my muscle soreness in my arm?
Searching for A CAUSE to this pain, I want to blame my leaving my arm in a "non-moving" position at my terminal for hours at a time. – Getting up and walking around does not seem to totally remedy this muscle-soreness in my arm.

I have no General Practitioner to ask, which is why I’m asking this in here.
Thanks for known re’s.

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okay this is going to be kinda long so please hang in there. in November i stopped taking my birth control about 2 moths after that i started cramping and bad lower back pain 3 weeks out of the month and i would be really sensitive to the point where my toddler couldnt sit on my lap. month after month this would happen i went in and my doc said i had BV she put me on meds and the pain came again i though okay the meds didnt help. one night i had horrible pain i almost went to the ER all i could do was lay on the couch so i made another appointment with my doc for the next day and she said my BV was gone so she said im going to get you an ultrasound and i bet you have ovarian cyst and it may have ruptured last night. My ultrasound was scheduled for a month after that doc appointment the pain came again i was thinking yes they will have to see something but nothing was found.. this month still have the pain but now my right kidney is hurting and thinking back they have hurt off and on but i just didnt think anything of it i remember being out with some friends having a couple drink and going pee and almost in tears in the bars bathroom because my kidneys hurt. today i noticed my finger nails and toe nails look a little funny, ridges going from base to top of nail. and on my toe nails my half moon almost covers my whole nail so i looked it up thinking i was lacking some vitamins come to find out they are both related to kidney disease/failure. i am about a half a pack a day smoker have a drink every once in awhile never had kidney stones im a 23 year old female i am going to make an appointment with my family doc today but would love to see what you all think thanks!
*im wondering if these thing could all be related to kidney problems i have thought i might have endo but have not gone back to my gyno. oh and another thing is in feb. i thought i was coming down with something bc i was tired all the time didnt want to move or talk tired it lasted for about a month straight not sure if thats something i should include!

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i’m 32 weeks pregnant, i haven’t passed a stone sense august and i’m have extreme discomfort and blood in my urine i went to the hospital friday but they just said to tough it out until after pregnancy. I haven’t passed any but both kidneys really hurt. Is there any safe at home remedies i could try? or if you have experience or know someone with kidney stones any information is helpful thank you

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I’ve been taking from 8-12 pills nightly (I’m having a horrible time going to sleep due to my job schedule bouncing every single week) this is the only way I can sleep now. But I went to ER swearing I had kidney stones (it feels so much like stones I’ve had before too many times) after doing cat scan they found stones but still in kidneys not passed. So he couldn’t explain why I’m hurting so bad. Both sides of back hurt off & on but I came home it’s not easing up & I’m now curious if this can be causing my pain? I don’t want to go back to ER because they’ll think I’m nuts (hell I"m starting to wonder myself) but I can’t get relief…it’s my back, my sides & my stomach is very upset & also hurting some. What are some side effects? Can this cause my problems?? I’m hurting & not sure why…please help me if you know anything..

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I had been drinking coconut juice for about 4 days when i experienced pain when urination for 2 days then dissappeared. I heard that coconut juice is good for the kidneys. Does this mean that i have kidney stones and coconut flush it out?

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I gone to the kidney surgeon three times since my last surgery nad he says im SOOOOO healthy aside from one kidney stone which he predicts aint going anywhere.In the left kidney. I had 12 stones in the past year, almost died from that with a combo of Hydronephrosis. Had surgery and was back to normal. I kept going to the kidney dr and all he says that I got one tiny sized stone thats not going anywhere and my levels he says is perfect. BUT IT HURTS!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE KIDNEYS What do I do?

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Alright, on Friday night, I was out playing some baseball with some friends and no back pain. When i woke up the next morning, Saturday, my lower back was hurting around my kidneys. The pain has not been Extreme, but enough to notice it. I only notice it when i move. Over the past month ive been drinking many sodas and not much water. Im 17 and not very active and this was the first time ive been active. it;s now Tuesday and i can still feel it. Is it a Kidney stone or just a pain from not being active in awhile?

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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 had kidney stone surgery June of last year well to make a long story short am bleeding when I urinate again and my back is really hurting have a urologist appointment this afternoon and just know that he’s gonna tell me that I’ll need surgery again (I don’t pass the stones)
MY question is this when my back first started acting up again my urologist told me that they could not go and get the stones unless am in acute distress because it would actually hurt my kidneys? Has anyone heard that be4? It just doesn’t make since to us at all?

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hi since 4 years iam suffering from this stones coming from pennie
5 times they came from that…….can you tell me the symptoms and effects of this…..even you can tell the causes alsoo…….wht to do now … i heard that every person will have the stones on their kidneys at some level……did they became over in mine

please suggest me sooon

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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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I have been diagnosed with kidney stones about a few months ago. I had two of them removed from my urethra along with many more still sitting inside my kidneys.
My question is how long will my other kidney stones that are sitting inside my kidneys come out?

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I am a 30 year old male who experienced my first kidney stone 2 weeks ago. After surgery the Doc. placed a stint in me. 4 days ago I got the stint took out. I still burn when I pee and the pain goes all the way back up to my bladder. I still have some soreness in my kidneys and bladder area that get worse at night time. I was wanting to know if maybe I have a UTI or was this normal from having the stint taken out ? I have heard alot of men say that they burned for only a day or so and I am on my fourth day . I went to the doctor and they say I have blood in my pee and Bactria. Should I have blood in my pee from a UTI ?

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I went to the ER on Tuesday w/ pain from kidney stones. I had them once before, back in October 2005, so I recognized the pain immediately. I was given IV w/ pain meds til the pain was under control. Then sent home w/ pain meds til I passed the stone(s), which I did a couple of days later.
But the ER dr said the scan showed I have at least one stone in each kidney. I know I need to see a urologist to talk about the stones, but I cant see one til June 16th. My husband and I REALLY want to get pregnant soon. Would it be horrible if we got pregnant before I could see the urologist? Or should we wait to try afterwards…even if it means having a baby much later than we wanted. Of course, we would still be happy but it would make things harder timing-wise (ie my sister’s wedding and my husbands work).
Anyone had stones during pregnancy?
Is it possible the stones would just stay in my kidneys thru the pregnancy and I could deal w/ them afterwards?
I am not afraid that having them will affect my chances of getting pregnant. Just wondering if we should wait to try until we’ve had the stones taken care of?
Or is there a chance when I am pregnant they will just stay in my kidneys and I wont have to deal w/ them til after the birth (and nursing)?

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I have a friend that has been experiencing pain in her back as well as pain on urination and blood in her urine.She just had a kub ultrasound done yesterday. The Doctor said there was nothing of concern showing up in her kidneys other than 1 small kidney stone. The doctor told my friend that the stone could easily be gotten rid of by taking antibiotics (which she has already done twice prior to the ultrasound with no improvement). Could it be that she was not given the proper antibiotic for removing kidney stones but one for UTI instead (which was the preliminary diagnosis)? I myself have a very large kidney stone in my left kidney which my urologist has been monitoring for the past 4 years with an annualy Xray. It has never given me the least bit of trouble and I have never seen blood in my urine. If it’s true that kidney stones can be gotten rid of with antibiotics why wouldn’t my urologist have already prescribedthem for my stone? He said the only solution is to do one of 2 procedures, one which involves going up through the urethra and into the kidney breaking up the stone into small pieces that would still have to be passed with urination …VERY painful! The other choice would be something called lithotripsy which is a laser type method used to break the stone up also and the small pieces would still have to be passed through urination ….. again VERY PAINFUL!
My question is NOT how to avoid getting kidney stones but whether antibiotics can get rid of them.

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My symptoms are pain right over my liver and three inches more down the pain over my liver is more the feeling of sore than anything the pain three inches down form my liver is something of a of burning and sharp ach which I get the same pain on the opposite side of my stomach…my back ach both side but mainly on my right at the end of my rib cage… I have this real bad thirst that I cant stop no matter what I drink…my urine is dark not like coke color but like dark yellow with a metal smell to it…my legs ach and hurt I feel tingles on both legs and hands my joints hurt my vision is blur and not what it use to be my eyes are so dry that I have no tears all.. I get real shaky in my hands I get a little headache here and there no fever but I m always hot when its cold and cold when it real hot my skin is not yellow or eyes…last but not least is that my bowel movements have change it not what it use to be I its hard to explain but it just was my full of gas that has a horrible smell and my bowel movements are just different there always the same color (brownish reddish) and they look soft so some back bio I m 23 years old 247 pounds not a drug user of any sort

In the last two months I had seen two different doctors two E.R. visits and G.I specialist
So the first doctor ran blood and urine test and did a sonogram his results were that my kidneys were fine my liver function was fine my blood count was good and he check for hepatitis a b c and all came back negative but I did have a fatty liver which the sonogram showed and he said that I had a U.T.I the second doctor ran blood and urine test and told be the same next but his time I was check for diabetes and that came back negative no thyroid problems and the U.T.I had clear up at the first E.R. visit they rule out gallbladder stones by doing x-rays and blood work but the he said that I had blood in my urine that’s it. at the second E.R they ran only a urine test and the doc told me that my urine came back fine no blood no protein so Here I m not know what going on and I look at all my symptoms and they said it was hepatitis and I want to know your opinions need links to wed sites or “you need to go see the doctor” answers I want people who have hep to please tell me what they think what were your systems when you first found out

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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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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 know you go thru major pain and get all the symptoms.
I did the tests and there’s no infection in the kidneys/bladder but I have this dull pain right where the kidney’s located. The doc said it could be a kidney stone and told me it’ll go away cuz if it was big enough (which requires surgery) that I would’ve been in unbearable pain

Im asking it here cuz I’ll prolly get no answers in the other sections
batman- I went to the doc, she just said to do an ultrasound. I dun think there are any pills to get rid of kidney stones.

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I am a 29 year old male who has a muscular athletic build. I lift weights and exercise on a pretty regular basis. The past 4 days I have been under an extreme amount of stress. Ive had chest pains and my left kidney felt to have pressure on it. I also noticed that my urination was over %50 reduced and darker. I started freaking out majorly and my fiance(and I) decided it was best I go to the ER. I went to the ER and my blood pressure was elevated along with my pulse over 120bpm. I was seriously freaking out and could not calm down. I had a few panic attacks the days prior and nothing I did could calm myself down. I was convinced I was dieing.

They took a urine sample from me that was not much and slightly dark, not bloody just darker than normal. They also took 2 things of blood and ran tests on it. They pretty much told me up front that they thought I was dehydrated and seriously stressed out way to much but I was not convinced of that and I had to know that something was wrong with me. I was having chest pains the past few days, high heart rate, short of breath, along with not going to the bathroom much at all…..scary.

Furthermore the Dr. ordered a CT scan to be performed to look over my kidneys for stones, tumors.

Well after everything she came back in and told me that the CT scan showed no stones, tumors and they were regular size. They could find nothing wrong at all. Also my blood results came back normal and urine came back. The only thing she told me is that my creatinine level was a little higher than it should be. It was at a 1.4. She told me it was only .1 above a normal level and that it could be caused because she felt I was very dehyrated. I also read that muscular younger people will have slightly higher than normal levels of creatinine because it has to do with muscle repair. Regardless she told me to see a dr just to make sure there is not a problem that may be starting.

I felt really good after this and immediatly I felt 10x better than I was. I am still slightly concerned something is wrong. I have felt a few chest pains still and after I got home yesterday I drunk a TON of water. I am talking probably much more than I should. I had to go to the bathroom normally after 4-5 days around 4 times and it was a lot each time and looked normal. I woke up this morning and my lower back region felt kinda achy, sore….not really sure how to explain it. I am also still having some pressure on my left side. Could all this be still caused by stress?

I am going to the dr. soon as I get an appointment to go see him. Should I be really concerned?

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Okay so I’m not pregnant. That’s a fact. We can rule this out right now.
I have been diagnosed with acid reflux disease. I have family history of ulcers, problems with the pancreas, liver, kidneys. Liver because my grandpa drank quite a bit and my dad because he had hepatitis when he was a young teen I think. Kidneys, I believe my grandma just had kidney stones, and my dad, they just recently found some "sand" in his kidneys (sorry I’m translating this from Russian to English so please excuse me for incorrect terminology if there is any). I’m 18, and in the past about 7 days I’ve been taking prilosec because I think it may have been something like an ulcer opening in my stomach..that was my best guess..
I’m going to go to a doctor, don’t worry about that, I just wanted to see if anyone has had something similar or if anyone has any suggestions as to what it could be?
any ideas are appreciated.
much thanks!
by the way, I’m pretty good about the food I eat. Since this has started I’ve tried to minimize the fatness of the foods that I eat but it didn’t work. Although I’m still sticking to lower fat foods, I’m not doing a totally low fat diet any more.. I do eat salads and healthy foods. Lately I’ve been trying to stick to light soups like chicken noodle soup and stuff like that. Nothing with too much fat in it.

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My friend in Europe was told by her doctor to take medicine for urinary tract infection and, when I look at this medicine description in English, I see it is contraindicated during pregnancy. Doctor has tried to scare her into taking the medicine, saying such infection could very possibly go to her kidneys and cause terrible troubles. But if a medicine is worse than the disease, what can be done?!

Please, if anyone knows effective and safe treatment for this ailment during pregnancy, do share! Thank you.

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My kidney stone is near my bladder according to a CT scan, but my back (the area where my kidneys are) and underneath my left ribcage still hurt. Why is that? It’s severe pain too. Is it spasms?

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Ok, so I played basketball for like 3 hrs in 95 degree heat on Saturday. Was pretty dehydrated after, but was okay and recovered. The next day I went to pee and the right side of my bladder had these sharp stabbing pains! It’s not up near the kidneys.. it’s below the belly button to the right close to the groin. It feels a somewhat better after I’m done, but still has a sharp lingering pain all the time. Then when I have to pee again (i guess as the bladder is full) the intense pain comes back! It hasn’t gotten any better and is now Wednesday. Went to the doctor today and they found no blood or infection in the urine. Gave me flexoril and said it’s probably a pulled muscle. By the way, I don’t have any history with kidney stones but my dad has had gout and uric acid stones sometimes. Anyway, the only diet changes lately have been drinking coffee and taking Pepcid. Thanks for you help!!

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