18 year old reoccurring kidney pain/problems

Male and 60 years older than you I have had a similar worsening problem to yours since around February when I had a bad kidney infection. At the time I was waiting for laser prostate surgery and was prone to

bladder infections. I kept on going back to my GP with urine samples and complaining of pain in the right

kidney area. Several time my samples were positive for a bladder infection and had more antibiotics. After my prostate operation in late May I got an infection from the catheter that took three lots of antibiotic to

clear.

I have been back several times with kidney area pain but urine samples were negative. This made my GP

say that it was back or muscle pain. I disagreed as bending, lifting and stretching were not painful and the

pain came on when in bed or sitting. Recently it has spread to the other side and is now mostly constant.

Last week I went to A&E, only three others there as it was around 10am but I was still there for five hours!

The doctor felt around my stomach and kidney area without finding anything suspicious and decided the

pain might be from my back,,, He sent me for an X-Ray that did not show anything wrong.

He suggested that I go back to my GP for him to arrange for ultrasound scans and other tests. I don't know why he could not have arranged for them while I was there. If I go to my GP he will tell me that he has to

refer me to a consultant to authorise the tests.

Hi Courtney , I suggest you go and ask for a second opinion and to see a consultant urologist , you obviously aren't getting your problems sorted and theres something going on , ? Have you seen a consultant , and asked for further tests ?

It always surprises me that when hospitals find nothing at A&E they send you back to your GP rather than

pass you on to another department. My wife once had very bad pain on the right side of her stomach late

one Thursday night. She was very pale and sweating. I phoned 999 and paramedics and a doctor arrived. They took

her BP and did some other checks at home and took her to hospital. One paramedic said that the pain

seemed similar to what he had with a duodenal ulcer. I agreed that it was similar to duodenal pain that I

once had.

At the hospital their first thought was a pulmonary embolism and they gave her aspirin and heparin

injections while she insisted that the pain was in her stomach not her chest. They did a chest x-ray and an

ultra sound scan the next day. Finding nothing they sent her home still in pain saying that the majority of

chest pan presented never has a reason found for it. While we still protested that it was in her stomach.

Still in on the Monday she went to her GP. He prodded her stomach, she squealed and he said, duodenal

ulcer and sent her for an endoscopy. It was , plus a cluster of gastric ulcers.

Hello Courtney. I agree with Helen. You definitely need to see a consultant urologist. Your GP needs to organise this without delay. 35 years ago a GP fobbed me off for 7 years. I was back and forth to him like a yo~yo. Eventually a locum LISTENED to my symptoms and within weeks I was having a massive staghorn calculus removed from my left kidney. If I'd have seen a urologist, sooner it would never have arisen. Please ask your GP Best wishes Dorothy

I want to tell you my story with a similar problem because I scoured these forums for an answer but never found one until very recently. I'm 20 years old and starting Spring 2013 I would have severe attacks of kidney pain about once an month with very similar symptoms as yours including blood and protein in my urine. I went to 8 different doctors/hospitals over the year and was told everything from kidney stones to muscle spasms to a doctor just blankly staring at my chart and concluding "I dont know". I was given constant pain killers as a band aid but every month it would come back with severe pain and vomiting and really disrupted my life. They kept saying kidney infection but I did NOT have an infection every time I had symptoms so I was getting very frustrated. Finally a urologist with half a brain suggested maybe I have endometriosis that is pressing on the kidney causing pain and infections. Endometriosis does NOT show up on any scans or tests the only way to find out is a laparoscopy where they actually go into your body cavity and search for it. She was right! I had the laparoscopy done yesterday and they found and removed the endometriosis causing my symptoms! To all the girls with similar problems as me who are creeping these forms for answers: highly consider endometriosis as an answer! And dont give up I had to go through 8 s***ty doctors who didnt want to put any work into finding the correct answer to find the one doctor that actually thought outside the box.