Or does my back just happen to be hurting all day right where my kidneys are? I have been drinking a lot of water lately- maybe I am overworking them. Or maybe my back just hurts.
Your kidneys definitely can hurt. But you could also have kidney-shaped foreign objects lodged in your body around the kidney area, and that could hurt too.
Yes. When I occasionally get reflux it hurts.
Yup. I’ve had my kidneys aching bad. They weren’t functioning very well at the time.
Ah, okay. If it continues into tomorrow, I guess I will have to investigate. And I will take it easy at work- “oh, my aching kidneys.”
Yes but muscle pain can also mimic kidney pain. I recently went to an urgent care clinic utterly convinced that I had a kidney stone or some other serious kidney problem and it turned out to be nothing more than a badly pulled muscle. Get to a doctor asap.
Spoken like someone who has insurance.
But, yes, I will consult someone if it continues.
I’ve had kidney infections twice in my life and they both started out with kidney pain. Both times I also developed a high fever within about 12 hours of the pain starting.
If your kidneys hurt, the pain tends to be sharp and severe, intense and comes in waves. Doesn’t matter if you’re moving or still, lying or sitting or standing, the pain doesn’t change much. The pain tends to be on either side of the spine and above the hips
If your back hurts, the pain tends to be duller and aching, constant and worsens with movement. The pain is more in the back of your back, if that makes any sense, and often crosses the spine.
I’m a hypochondriac and would occasionally wake up in the morning with a dull pain where the kidneys are.
After I bought a new mattress the pain stopped, but when I sleep on the old mattress the pain comes back. It was just back pain.
…And your hypochondria is relevant here how?
One of the relatively rare times I’ve seen a thread where the OP really didn’t agree with the advice, but yielded to the collective wisdom of the 'Dope, if I remember correctly. Kudos to you.
Alice The Goon - hope it’s nothing.
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I’ve had kidney stones and back pain in that area that mimic it. Maximum dosages of anti-inflammatories will work on back pain for me but not on kidney stones.
Well, oddly enough, few minutes ago the pain (more achy than sharp) abruptly stopped. I hadn’t taken anything, so hmpf. Oh well, thanks for the answers.
And in an astounding coincidence, I have an extra knife available..
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He thought ‘kidney pain’ where it was just back pain. Glad yours has stopped; keep an eye on your…output, so to speak. If something’s weird kidney-wise, you’ll probably notice something there.
So I could justify myself to strangers on the internet.
Sounds like you passed a stone. Done it a time or two myself. Dull achy pain, coming in waves, worse and worse, then, Bing! Gone. Funny that I’ve always known that bing means it’s gone, not just another lull between waves. Great feeling. Until the next time. Once I actually went to an ER and they gave me narcotics. That was a great feeling too. Then a caught the stone in a little strainer. Hard little bugger about the size of a lentil.
Not in my experience. I have had continuous sharp pain… And I know it’s reflux-related kidney pain because relieving the pressure eased it off.
Had continuous dull aching caused by nephritis too.
Never had any urological pain that came in waves, and I have had a fair bit of pain in that region.
I know someone who had a urinary diversion, and she claimed that wind (as in intestinal gas) caused kidney pain due to the type of diversion she had.
What do you mean by this? Reflux?