Weird kidney pain...what's going on??

[Pheebe]

Seeing doc next week but thought I'd post here (to stop myself googling!)

Intermittent pain in right kidney area, stabbing on and off. Quite painful but not really enough to take anything. Then really sore, more the skin. Weird. Not every day but the soreness can last for hours.

Any thoughts?

No ideas, but drink plenty of water if you can, it really helps with kidney pain. x

It sounds like a kidney stone perhapse.

Doesn't sound much like the kidney stone I had but maybe some people get grumbling pain before the stone actually passes?

With my kidney stone I was in absolute agony and would rather give birth than ever go through it again. In fact, I'd had a c section two weeks earlier and would rather go through that x10 than pass another kidney stone.

yep kidney stone. if your pee is very smelly and/or very dark, or if pain feels akin to labour (!) then down to A&E

I did wonder about a stone but the pain certainly isn't that bad, wee is normal. It's just sore.

I had a stone, I certainly wasn't in agony though, nor did I have red wee. I could feel it travel though and it showed up on an x-ray.

Was the pain intermittent bell? This has been going on for about a week or so now, some days it hurts, others not.

It was pulsating. It depends on the size of the stone (if there's one there), they can be huge so it may have trouble moving. Should generally expect red wee with a large stone though. Can get stones in the kidney itself which will not budge without some help, I imagine this would be intermittent pain without blood as they wouldn't be moving.

I've never had red wee, although I am a martyr to kidney stones.

The big buggers can cause stabbing, throbbing pains in the kidneys, and the little ones can pass with moderate pain for about an hour or two. Mine would feel like severe period pains, often radiating pain in lower back. Once they hit you bladder, the pain stops. Next couple of wees you need to pee through a sieve. If you have passed a stone, keep it and give it t our GP - certain types of stones can be avoided by over the counter medicines. But you have to know which type you have.

I would recommend a couple of glasses of water as soon as the pain starts. plus Ibuprophen.

If you have a kidney stone I recommend morphine, and lots of it. I had morphine and was still begging for gas and air. Luckily it passed soon afterwards but I was left with a nasty kidney infection for a week.

Morphine? Must have been a whopper! Morpine makes me vomit. It didn't hurt that much.

Thanks everyone

Hatti, useful information, thanks

We'll see what the GP reckons - its becoming my second home recently