Kidney stones

[jennylamb1]

Woken up at 1am this morning by the most excruciating sudden onset pain in my bladder and further down, feverish, started getting blood in urine and stinging, painful to wee. Didn't know what to do with myself. Read on the internet about kidney stones and it said to drink, drink, drink, so did that and after an hour of weeing blood some funny little crystals came out, pain eased and the wee became clear again. Went to GP this morning who tested my urine and said it showed signs of UTI or kidney infection with blood still in it and I've been prescribed 3 days of antibiotics.
Have been in bed all day with shivers and feeling awful, is it kidney stones?

Could have been kidney stones or bladder stones. You can also just get a kind of grit or sand which is painful but not as bad as stones. I've had all 3.

A UTI can cause kidney stones. It's likely you've got a nasty infection which is making you feel like shit. I know, I am just recovering from one now.

3 days of antibiotics isn't much - you should be feeling better by day 2 for a 3 day course to be enough. If not get back in touch with your GP - you're not better, and you will need more antibiotics.

Alternatively if this morning (Feb 6) you wake up and you're still feverish you could get in touch with the GP - lower UTIs don't usually cause a fever, it might be a kidney infection which needs different antibiotics.

It doesn't sound like you've still got any stones in you as you've not mentioned anymore horrific pain. The best you can do is drink lots and lots of water and pee regularly. This is good for UTIs too.

Good luck!

Thank you! Drinking lots of water with lemon juice squeezed into it as read that this helps. Don't want to feel like that again when passing the little crystals. Pretty wiped out today and glands are up so body is obviously fighting something.

How likely are you to get kidney stones again if you've had them once? Also, would a GP refer you for a scan to check for others?

I had a problem with grit and blood in my urine last November (wasn't sure if UTI or kidney stones floored me for best part of a week) so totally identify with this, the urine I took to the doctors for appointment that they dip and send off came back abnormal (red cell count was up) so I was offered a referral straight to Urology or I could do another urine sample under the GP which came back normal a couple of weeks later.

No reoccurrence since (touch wood) but I did get 7 days of antibiotics.

Thanks Guttedme! Yes, think I'll make a doctor's appointment next week to try and get a referral, just worried about having some more stones when I'm not at home, on holiday or something because it came on so quickly and it's so debilitating. Yes mine were little bits of grit too- managed to take a photo and kept a tiny bit.