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My pain symptoms associated with kidney problems (UTI) is a little weird.

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maura47759
maura47759

I went to the doctors today with a dull, sometimes sharp pain on my lower right side of my back.  The nurse asked for a urinary sample just in case it was a Kidney problem, but the doctor was adamant that it can’t be a Kidney problem since my back pain was too low to be associated with a kidney. She was pretty convinced that I stretched a muscle. However, when we got the urinary test results back and it showed up as a pretty nasty case of UTI, my doctor couldn’t believe it. Is it normal for some people to feel kidney-associated pain in the very low part of the back? Or could it be that my kidneys are somehow placed lower than they should be?

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    Hi Maura

    It could be inflamation of the Ureta lower down, the tube that drains the urine from kidney to bladder, it is not unsusual to get lower back ache with a uti , so your symptoms appear normal for uti.

    Kidney infections, pylonephritis, usually present with a fever and or vomiting, or severe loin pain.

    As long as you have been given treatment then things should settle down soon.

    Hope you feel better soon x

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