How do you know if you have a kidney stone?

[Chewbacca]

Any doctors or failed medical students want to tackle this one?

[Darth_Bryan]

If you are fixing to pass a kidney stone your get this shooting pain in your back, you can get light headed, and you can have a fever with it. Not to mention you feel like you have to go, but you cannot do anything.

[JoshEEE]

From WebMD.com

What Are the Symptoms?

Usually, the first symptom of a kidney stone is extreme pain. The pain often begins suddenly when a stone moves in the urinary tract, causing irritation or blockage. Typically, a person feels a sharp, cramping pain in the back and side in the area of the kidney or in the lower abdomen. Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur with this pain. Later, the pain may spread to the groin.

If the stone is too large to pass easily, the pain continues as the muscles in the wall of the tiny ureter try to squeeze the stone along into the bladder. As a stone grows or moves, blood may be found in the urine. As the stone moves down the ureter closer to the bladder, a person may feel the need to urinate more often or feel a burning sensation during urination.

If fever and chills accompany any of these symptoms, an infection may be present. In this case, a doctor should be contacted immediately.

<font size="2" face="arial">OUCH.


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[Darth_Bryan]

Man I should be a doctor. [IMG]images/icons/grin.gif[/IMG] Some have said passing a kidney stone is like giving birth. At least that's what one of my doctors told my dad.

[Spike]

Why do you want to know? Are you in pain down there? My parents had kidney stones. I'm so freaked about getting them. They said they were very very painful.

[Darth_Bryan]

Did you think you have them or are just curious?

[JosephY]

Originally posted by Chewbacca the Preemptive Strike:
Any doctors or failed medical students want to tackle this one?

<font size="2" face="arial">As someone who's had kidney stones, trust me you'd know. They are BRUTALLY painful. They start off as a throbbing pain in your lower back, pitted with the feeling of itchyness in your urethra, similar to a urinary tract infection. But it gets MUCH worse. Pretty soon you'll be feeling as if you're going to P!ss sand, and your kidney (depends on the side the stone is on) will feel as if someone's taking an icepick and stabbing you in it and twisting it around inside.
You'll feel hot and fevorish, dizzy. depending on how bad they are you may even vomit from the pain. IF you think you have them, sit in a HOT tub, and drink about a gallon of water it should make the stone settle into place, or move it into your bladder where it'll be much less painful. From there it'll end up coming out thru your urethra, that will be very uncomfortable, but not as bad as its path from your kidney to your bladder.IF it gets to the point where you're in soo much pain that you vomit, go to the ER, they'll hydrate you, give you pain medication, I'd recommend Morphine with a Toridol chaser, it took 3 shots of each and I was STILL screaming and vomiting in pain , the last time I had them.
I wouldn't wish kidney stones on my worst enemy....well maybe I would, but still.

good luck!!
Cheers
Joseph

[MetalJedi]

The thing Im curious about is how do you get them?? From Joseph's description I never want to get them. [IMG]images/icons/shocked.gif[/IMG]

Oy! now I'm getting dizzy and nausea from just reading the pain syphtom! [IMG]images/icons/shocked.gif[/IMG]

[Balki]

There was guy at work that was off for a week because he had stones. MULTIPLE stones. I'm shocked he's still alive.

This is kinda off topic, but when I'm in a public restroom, I find it funny to throw a pebble in the urinal and scream like a banshee whilst I'm leaking. People's reactions are priceless to that.