Symptoms
Kidney stones often produce severe symptoms, the most common being colicky pain in the lower side or back, groin, and/or abdomen.
- Sudden onset of sharp “ colicky” cramps or pain, that waxes and wanes, in the lower side or back, groin, and/or abdomen.
- Pain may radiate down towards the penis or scrotum or labial region
- Pain may sometimes be experienced at the tip of penis or urethra,
- Sometimes nausea / vomitting
- Blood in the urine (hematuria)
- Frequency of urination
- Chills and fever (if infection is also present )
- Difficulty /urgency in urinating
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Occasionally stones do not cause any pain and these are known as ‘silent stones’. These are usually the smooth-surfaced phosphate stones. Oxalate stones are spiky and tends to cause more irritation to the urinary passage while they migrate downward. Infective stones cause recurrent symptoms of urinary tract infection.
Small uric acid stones may be passed out as crystals in the urine.
