For the past five days I’ve had this aching pain in my lower left back. Its not my back thats causing the pain, its inside. My wife says its a kidney stone probably. I don’t know. I can pee w/o pain, but the pain is always there, it sometimes lowers to just a dull ache, but at times it dials it up to 11 and it really hurts. It hurts bad enough that I spent most of the labor day weekend doing nothing. Moving around seems to cause it to ache more. I’ve been drinking tons of water and huice trying to (hopefully) flush it out. I’m going to have to see a doctor, but I’m scared of what it might be. Anyone had something like this happen before?
It could be something, it could be nothing. Only a doctor can hazard a guess, not a message board. Now, you are old enough to be married, you’re a big boy - pick up the phone and make an appointment. Wondering and worrying isn’t productive. (and be sure to let us know what it was and what the treatment is, I’m always curious as to how it turned out).
I am most emphatically not a doctor, but it’s my understanding that stones cause pain specifically when you pee if they make it down to your urethra. If they stay in your kidney they can hurt like hell but it won’t relate to when you pee.
However, the standard answer is still the most appropriate one - see a doctor.
Like they said, see your doctor. And keep in mind that just because you don’t have symptom X it doesn’t mean that isn’t the problem. I had a UTI in April, and never got the burns when it pees symptom that is ultra-common, just pain and pressure all the time that didn’t vary with trying to pee or not.
If a stone is lodged in my kidney, I’ll generally feel anything from a dull ache in my lower back to a painful backache. If the stone moves to the upper part of the ureter, I usually feel sharp stabbing pains in my sides. As it moves to the lower part of the ureter, I’ll feel like I’ve been kicked in the nads.
Kidneys don’t recover from damage done to them. You end up with less kidney function. Don’t mess around and go see your doctor. There are way more dangerous diseases of the kidney that present with mild or moderate symptoms like you’re experiencing.
I am a doctor.
So far you’re getting a lot of misinformation about kidney stones here.
See your doctor.
On the other hand, it sounds like kidney stones.
If it is and you don’t go see your doctor, the pain can get bad enough for dilaudid.
Which might not work.
Don’t worry, just go to the doctor.