For about 8 or 9 weeks now i've been having constant kidney pains in my loin area. now i am also getting flank pains. my urine is cloudy, i've been on 4 different types of antibiotics and none of them have seemed to work. i have also done 4 urine tests - the first 2 showed i had a kidney infection, and the last 2 showed i haven't got a kidney infection. i have little appetite, i'm tired, always cold and i always feel nautious. i am stressing out a lot more, so i don't know whether this has anything to do with the pains? the flank pains feel as if i've pulled a muscle and are only a bit tender at the moment, so i'm not sure whether this has anything to do with my kidneys? the pain is from the bottom of my ribs to just above my hip (at the sides of the kidneys obviously). but it is just giving me really bad lower backache and it doesn't hurt when i wee. if the tests have shown that there is no infection there, could these pains just be because i'm just getting over a kidney infection?
2007-12-12 03:56:54 · 8 answers · asked by Lou M 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Have your doc check for kidney disease. I know a guy who had these symptoms and it turned out he had kidney disease. I hope this isn't the case, but better safe than sorry.
Best of luck to you.
2007-12-12 04:01:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did they do an ultra sound or cat scan for kidney stones?
Have you been referred to a urologist?
I would drink PURE cranberry juice in the meantime. It makes the walls of your bladder and urinary tract slippery, which has proven to get rid of infection. (should be able to find it in the fresh juice area usually in the lettuce section in your grocer)
Diverticulitis can cause the same pain and nauseousness (Do you have regular or irregular bowel movements?). I am not an expert but have had all these conditions and went through the same thing with diagnosis.
I had chronic bladder infections and blood in my urine and went on the antibiotic treatment. A month later I was admitted to emergency for kidney stones. A few months later I was admitted for diverticulitis (which has nothing to do with the urinary tract {unless you have a fissure connecting the two}, just the pain felt the same as when i had kidney stones)
2007-12-12 04:00:19 · answer #2 · answered by The Mentor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The side pains sound more like kidney stones than an infection. If the pain comes and goes, it's stones.
Kidney stones are calcium deposits that look like tiny spiked balls. They are formed in the kidney and get washed down the urethra to the bladder. Unfortunately, the tube is small, and the stones are pointy -- each time the stone moves, you might experience an increase in pain. When it comes to rest, the pain diminishes. Certainly, the irritation from them moving could have caused an infection.
An X-ray will diagnose them quickly. The options for treatment are:
1) let them pass on their own (small ones)
2) surgery - where the doctor passes a thin instrument up through your bladder, up the urethra until he finds the stone, where it is broken up and flushed out. More pain as each gritty piece of the stone is washed out by your urine.
3) lithotripsy (I had this). - you lie on a table in a shallow pool of water (centimeter deep, under your back). A series of sonic (sound) waves are pulsed at you, aimed at the stone. It feels like someone slapping your skin, like 30 thousand times... so they knock you out. There is no incision, and nobody goes on a trip up your insides. You still pass the pieces of stone over the next couple of days, and that hurts, but there's no surgery.
When I had my stones -- I was nausious, tired (couldn't get comfortable to sleep), and in pain intermittently. A sudden pain would 'knock me over', and for the 30 minutes or so until it went away, I could barely breathe. After lithotripsy, passed the stones in a couple of days.
2007-12-12 04:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by Sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope you are right, i had pain in the lower back i thought it was back strain.I was falling asleep all the time,but it was a effort for me to go to the toilet.My doctor thought it was urinary tract infection but i insisted on a blood test,when i got my results a week later i had 95% kidney failure,i nearly died,now im on dyialis every four hours,waiting for a transplant this started four years ago.So i hope yours is just an infection but i would get a blood test straight away.Good Luck.
2007-12-12 04:15:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow I don't know. Maybe passing a kidney stone?
Go to this website and let them know your symptoms and it should help you diganose your problem. I'm pretty sure there are some online doctors and nurses that can help you as well figure out what is going on.
I wish you the best of luck and hope you feel better soon!
http://www.webmd.com
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2016-09-05 09:20:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flank pain with a history of urinary tract infection could indicate a pyleonephritis, suggest you see a urologist.
2007-12-12 03:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like kidney stones!!!!!!! i get them every year. sometimes they take months even years to pass if u dont get them removed
2007-12-12 04:00:39 · answer #8 · answered by hotrodbettie1234 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋