KIDNEY STONES...what are the signs and symptoms??

[Steak Helmet]

anyone know what the signs and symptoms are for K-stones??
I know I should google it...call me lazy...

Yes I know we are not Docs here and cannot diagnos anything...just a question

 

[kitana]

anyone know what the signs and symptoms are for K-stones??
I know I should google it...call me lazy...

Yes I know we are not Docs here and cannot diagnos anything...just a question

This is actually I question I feel very comfortable answering, lol.

I have been through tons of them before.

*Mind you these are normal symptoms, and you may or may not get all of them. This is just what I have dealt with personally.*

It will hurt like hell to piss. Like the tip of your piss hole will burn. You will have a slight fever, elevated blood pressure or higher pulse. Your back; right under your ribs (just barely under, like the bottom part), will feel like it's got tons of pressure (like it's being compressed) and/or tons of stabbing pain there. You might also have cloudy urine, or little dribbling when you pee.

You will feel like you have to go every 15 mins, lol and it's only a dribble here and there.

When I get them, I get tons of pain on my flanks, cloudy/bloody urine, and pain at the rim of my pee hole.

SOP for a kidney stone is to go to the ER.

They will do blood work, start and IV, give you pain meds/nasuea meds, and either give you a CAT scan or an IVP (that's an IV dye X-ray). They CAN NOT (over 75% of the time) see a stone on a standard X-ray or an ultrasound. If they try that, ask for an IVP or an CAT scan.

Good luck to ya man, they hurt worse than childbirth, lol!!!

 

[Armageddon]

Pain Pain and more Pain! I've had them twice and it was no fun.

1st time all the pain was in my low back like kidney area and it would come and go. Kind of like contractions I would guess. It was uncomfortable to pee to, but didn't burn all that bad. Did this for 2-3 days before I decided to go to the hospital. Thought I was tough and could ride it out. They gave me some little capsole for pain. That shit knocked you out and it was a cap that was the size of a tic tac. Can't remember what it was at the moment.

2nd time it was flank pain down the side. Can cause you to be backed up as well. Don't know why as this was news to me. But K is pretty dead on with the rest of the symtoms. I went right from work to the hospital. Lots of fluids and by fluids I mean WATER!

Have fun with this and I hope for your sake it's not that bad

 

[Steak Helmet]

Ahhh yes I work in RADIOLOGY and see R/O stone protocals all the time...but I never have time to look at them and see what their symptoms are, plus, if they do not have a K-stone, I do not want to get the wrong symptoms.

THanks for the information...

right now I have left flank pressure...about 2 inches up from my illiac crest

 

[woody00]

i have all these symptoms, off and on for the past year and a half. sometimes it will burn when i piss and i can feel like squeezing pressure in my lower middle back(kidney area) when i piss. i would think by now i would pass them if they were kid stones but nothing has happened. i got a full blood work done last year. kidneys etc.... they said everything is normal, but i still get these awkword feelins when i piss.... i read somewhere on the net that lemonaide cystal light has some chemical in there that breaks down the kidney stones in your body making them pass and hurt less.