Symptoms of a Kidney Stone
If the kidney stones are too small then it may not move and will not cause any symptoms. But if a kidney stone causes a blockage or moves into a ureter one may have:
• Nausea, vomiting, chills and fever
• Have bloody or cloudy urine.
• Frequent urination
• Painful urination
• Sever pain while passing urine through ureter
• Blood in the urine
• have severe pain or ache on one or both sides of your back
• get sudden spasms of excruciating pain – this usually starts in the back below your ribs, before radiating around your abdomen, and sometimes to your groin and genitals
• have cloudy urine
• Burning sensation during urination
The same symptoms can be seen when an individual is having urinary tract infection (UTI) or cystitis. Renal colic is a term which defines as the severe pain of kidney. The pain begins when the stone stuck in the ureter and tries to come into the waves. The pain is not usually associated with the size of the stone even a small stone can cause more pain than very large ones. If the size of the stone is small then usually it passes out of the body within a day or so and mostly within four weeks of the onset of symptoms.
However, in the early stages the kidney stones do not show any symptoms. On the other hand, the symptoms may be very self-effacing or only one of them may occur. If just one of the kidney stones symptoms appears, the people do not take it too seriously. Some other causes are accounted for it. Due to the happening of the kidney stones, the patients feel pain in the abdomen. This is the most common kidney stones symptom. Generally, this pain begins from a mild one and it goes on increasing as the stone may grow in size.
Secondly, they experience pain during urination and menstruation. This happens if the stone chunk the flow of the urine form the kidney to the urinary tract. This ache can be very serious depending on the obstruction that the stone proves to be for the urine. Similar thing happens during the menstruation. If it becomes very painful then there is a need of medication.
Other symptom of passing a kidney stone is observed during the urination, other problems with the urine also occur. One of them is the increase in the frequency of the urine and in addition to that, it becomes difficult to hold the urine. Most of the times, this occurs along with the hurting during the urination. Because of this, the problems of the patients increase.
The symptoms of passing kidney stones are very painful and severe.