Symptoms of kidney stones may include experiences such as, sudden pain, which is severe and sharp when it begins and later will come and go over time as the stone moves.

Where pain is felt is mainly a result of where your kidney stone has lodged itself.

You may feel pain in the lower portion of your back or your side. Often, it will travel sharply to your groin on the same side.

In my experience it becomes very difficult for you to find a position that is less painful, no matter how hard you try.

You may find yourself moving around constantly, pacing about or when you are in bed moving restlessly trying to get comfortable.

Other Symptoms of kidney stones may be that you feel sick, and most people that have severe experiences will invariably vomit.

It is possible to feel cold and clammy, and sweaty with a pale appearance to your skin.

Sometimes, but not always you may notice blood in your urine during these symptoms

Depending on where the stone is or if you have an infection in your urinary system, you may notice burning with urination or more frequent urination and the need to go hastily, with only small amounts of urine resulting.

Symptoms of kidney stones can also cause you to have a fever, is not common, but may be a warning that you have an infection in addition to the kidney stone.

Now it is important that if you feel you have a kidney stone, you must contact your doctor and on no account take any medicine or supplements with out the doctors consent.

In my next article I will talk about the prognosis, the options that are available and what to do to minimise the risks in the future. But just briefly, some of the medical options;

Doctors have several options for destroying stones lodged in the urinary tract:

Lithotripsy

Extracorporeal - Shock waves that are applied externally breaking kidney stones into smaller fragments, which are then swept away in the urine stream.

Percutaneous ultrasonic - A narrow tube like instrument that is passed through a small incision in the back to the kidney, where ultrasound breaks up the kidney stones. The stone fragments are then removed.

Laser - A laser breaks up stones in the ureter. The stones then pass on their own.

Ureteroscopy - A very small telescope is inserted into the ureter and guided to the bladder. The stone is then either fragmented or removed.

Nowadays it is very uncommon to use surgery to remove a kidney stone.

I have experienced this problem a couple of times over the last few years and there a few things that i have found helpful, so if you think you have symptoms of kidney stones here are just a couple.

Advise from Joe Barton
Medical Researcher and Kidney Stone Consultant

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