Does anyone know anything about renal colic/kidney stones? Does this sound like your symtoms?

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I've always had tenderness in my back, ever since I was 17 (I'm 31 now). Sometimes it's quite bad and lasts for hours, I also get cloudy urine sometimes and I'm wondering if I have this. My GP kept treating me for UTI's but I've never had a fever with this. I've not been looking for stones and don't drink as much as I should. Does this sound like colic/stones???

TIA

Had your tonsils out?

Yes, 5 years ago, a long time after the pain first started.

Tonsills were removed because they were huge if this makes any difference.

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There is apparently a link between recurrent tonsilitis and kidney infections. I dont know much about it but it has been suggested to me before now because I suffer periodic recurrent UTI's.

FWIW, I have back problems and several moderate and minor spinal malformations (you wouldnt know it to look at me ), and I occasionally get pain high up around my waist. Like someone tying a rope around my waist and squeezing. It started in my teens too, which is a common starting point for spondilolisthesis, after an accident whereby I hurt my back.

I'm not helping much, I know, but sometimes these things you wouldnt expect can be the root cause.

Thanks. I'm not sure I've ever had a UTI. I've never had a temp, just pain, sometimes I can see crystals in the loo after I've been, they kind of shimmer in the water (sorry, gross!).
I am mega flexible so it could be a muscular thing, the pain is on both sides, one side lower then the other and it goes right through.

I'm very flexible too - I have hyperflexive joints. May be why some of my spine has 'slipped'. It's incredibly common in teenage girls and usually goes undiagnosed.