Does anyone have experience with kidney stones? *photo attached *

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So I have been suffering with UTI symptoms since the New Year and have already been prescribed two courses of antibiotics last month. Neither course seemed to completely clear the symptoms.
The symptoms have increased again this time with pain in my left side abdomen.
I fortunately had a sample bottle a home and have collected a sample ahead of a GP appointment this morning and I can see what looks like white sugar in the bottom of the bottle.

As usually I would do this at the surgery and give it straight to the doctor I've never really had this close a look at a sample and wondered if this was reasonably normal or something like kidney stones?
I'm worried about being fobbed off with more general antibiotics if there is a deeper issue than just a regular UTI. Any ideas?

To be fair, I don't think anyone but your doctor actually needs to see your urine sample. Could you not have put it as a sensitive image, so we can choose to look or not?! Can't believe MN are still allowing this stuff to be posted after recent episodes.
Go back to the doctor with that sample!

Isn't that just the additive (white powder, boric acid) that's already in the red-topped bottles before the sample is added? It acts as a preservative to reduce the overgrowth of organisms before it's processed by the lab.

Red bottles have the additive as above. Kidney stones are very much small stones. Passing one is usually horrendous levels of pain. Not always as there will always be exception.
Take care

Are you always so uptight about things so irrelevant. She's not asking you to drink it!!

"...She's not asking you to drink it."

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Love it @NoOneKnowsWhoYouAre

If that's the worst thing you've seen on MN you're doing well!

You’d know if you had kidney stones, the pain is excruciating

@valentinoandme are that would make sense. I guess there is a reason why you usually just do the sample at the GP so people like me wont start speculating lol

Oh @MoonWoman69 you saw the thread title and I did add that there was a photograph, you didn't have to open it.

@NoOneKnowsWhoYouAre 😂😂

Op- I agree with pp, isn't there already a substance inside the sample bottle?

@MoonWoman69 have you never seen wee before? How utterly traumatic for you.

Definitely not a kidney stone, DH has had them and you'd know about it! Really really painful.

My hubby collapsed passing a stone, wonderful ambulance driver at the house in ten minutes. He was given morphine, 11 hrs at A & E though.
Later that night, I fished a tiny stone out of the loo. Same colour as the vitamin C tablets he insisted on taking every day. The point is you would absolutely know if you were passing a kidney stone.

Definitely not kidney stones. The last one I had was the size of a grain of sand and caused such agony it went from ‘mild back pain’ at 6 pm to ‘screaming on all fours in A and E’ by midnight. I’ve never had UTI symptoms with any kidney stones attack.

I’ve passed a couple of kidney stones, tiny little things but the pain was unbelievable. I was in hospital both times and what came out look like a dark reddish brown grain of sand.

You're all hysterically funny, my sides are splitting! 🙄
There is the option to block the photo as sensitive, not just write it in the title, which most people probably would have done! And it makes no odds about your warning in the title, if the picture is there when I open the thread?! I don't need to see your pee bottle to offer advice!
It's absolutely nothing to do with being uptight and all to do with common decency and giving people the choice to view the photo or not! But as usual, people jump on and comment, thinking they're clever. Not.
These days if it isn't nappies covered in shit, it's clots from periods! And now pee! How lovely MN is becoming! Just go to the sodding doctors! 🤢

Ffs, it's a bottle of coloured liquid, get a grip.

@MoonWoman69 I'm using the MN App so no facility to block a sensitive photograph as you say.

I'm sorry that my urine has offended you.

@newkettleandtoaster 😂😂

Soo anyhooo
The GP confirmed blood in urine and requested bloods and a scan to rule out kidney stones.
No antibiotics and back home drinking a gallon of water.

Ahh poor you. My husband was crying with the pain, which made me cry 😩

I can smell that through the internet.

Kidney stone pain was worse than my labour!! Iwas rolling around on the floor, unable to get comfortable, delirious, thought my bladder was going to pop, needed to call an ambulance and even morphine didn't completely take away the pain. Hopefully the scan will give you some answers