SYMPTOMS THAT SHOW PRESENCE OF KIDNEY STONE

Stones in Kidney :

If there are stones inside your kidney, you will usually not get any pain in your abdomen. However, if the stone is big enough, you might experience dull aching pain.Sometimes renal stones are diagnosed without any symptoms, as incidentally detected during other diagnostic modalities.

Stones in Ureter :

If there is a stone inside your ureter (the tube that passes from the kidney to the urinary bladder), you will get a sharp pain which starts from either of the loin depending on which side the stone is situated and the pain will spread down to your lower abdomen. The pain will be agonizing enough for you to seek medical help at the earliest.

If there are stones lodged inside both ureters, there is every possibility that you might not pass urine at all, in addition to pain in both loins. This is due to ureteric obstruction on both sides leading to acute kidney failure. In such a situation, you should seek emergency medical care. In these sorts of situations, your urologist will advise a procedure called bilateral ureteric stenting in which tubes will be inserted into both your ureters by going through the normal urinary passage. Such a procedure will relieve you of the pain and will also improve your kidney function. However, this procedure is only a temporary one and once your kidney function stabilizes, you will need a surgical procedure to remove the stones in both your ureters.

Stones in Ureterovesical Junction:

If there are stones lodged in this part of the ureter (the point where the ureter enters the urinary bladder), you will experience symptoms like burning sensation/pain while passing urine with increased frequency of urination in addition to loin pain. You might also pass blood in the urine.

Stones in Urinary Bladder:

If there are stones inside your urinary bladder (the organ that stores urine after receiving it from the kidneys), you might experience symptoms like burning sensation/pain while passing urine with increased frequency of urination with passage of blood in the urine. There might also be a sensation of urgency to pass urine.

Stones in Urethra:

If the stone has lodged in the urethra (the tube that leads from urinary bladder to the natural urinary orifice), you will have a blocked sensation while passing urine with slowness in the urinary stream. This is different from stones in Ureter (the tube that passes from the kidney to the urinary bladder)