How can kidney stones be an infection?

[KatyMac]

& why do I still hurt?

I finally got my results from my CT scan today & it's all clear - so why don't I feel any better?

Actually I really hurt

Have you been diagnosed with stones?

No - they thought I had kidney stones 3 weeks ago - so I was to have an Xray but they wouldn't do it because I could have been allergic to the dye. I had a CT scan instead - I (finally) got the CT scan results today

I don't have Kidney Stones & I have no idea what is wrong

Do you have an infection they are agony have had a few serious ones and was in a real state.

The first week my pain was awful, I was in a real mess

I took lots of antibiotics & got better

But I am still having the pains off & on, I also have new ones in my groin

I have had a transplant(don't panic!)and they left my original kidney in but it became small and had lots of little stones in it and i had really bad groin pain with those.Some severe kidney bladder infections also cause pain there.Why did you have the anti biotics did they do urine tests?

maybe the stone has passed, that happened with my first one.

I had a UTI

Oh ok.You may have passed the stone and are feeling the after effects.The stones I had were tiny and it wasn't possible to do anything about them but take painkillers when they struck but i was told they were minute but even they were agony.Kidney infections are seriously bad so you may have some residual pain Def go back if it doesn't improve

I have to log my pain over the next 3 weeks & get back to them if it doesn't improve

Oh I hope I have passed it/them

Would they have left any signs behind

well you could have teeeny scratches in your urethra and ureter hence the pain and infection
Honest, my first one was so small that it was described as a "may be a stone, a tiny dot!"
yeah right, didnt feel tiny!
My next one was a humdinger! about a cm or something ouchy

Poor you

So basically I could have 'passed it' & it left no record behind - why don't they tell you stuff like this

this was my point earlier, the teeny one was an nhs stone LOL, nothing, no interest, no hurry just pain relief.
The private one started in Cyprus & I was unfit to fly so had the stent put in there so i could get home, I was working again then and had uk medical insurance too
Therefore I was able to get a referral privately and they just got on with it!