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Hi Gary @gman007,
My daughter also has kidney stones – she actually has cystinuria, which is a genetic disorder, that causes stones made of amino acid (cystine) to form in the kidneys and ureters. She was also diagnosed because she had blood in her urine, and excruciating pain on her side, back, below her ribs. An ultrasound and an abdominal CT scan confirmed the diagnosis. A few years ago she passed one stone, but I remember that it was unbearable – the pain was coming in waves, and we had to take her to the ER to manage the pain.
If you have a kidney stone, you might not notice anything is amiss until the stone moves into your ureter; my daughter's pain often starts suddenly, (she has another stone in her left kidney), and as the stone moves, the location and intensity of pain changes. I agree with Colleen, that an ultrasound or CT scan should be able to detect a stone.
Besides the discussion Colleen noted, here are two other conversations about flank pain in Kidney & Bladder:
– https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/i-am-being-treated-at-mayo-for-membranous-glomerulonephritis-over-the-last/
– https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/flank-pain/
Please let me know if I can help answer any more questions, Gary.
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@charlena, I do not want to be an alarmist, but when I hear "radiating pain" in that area, I think Pancreas, because when my pain is at it's worst, it radiates to my back. I would hope that your husband's pain is from kidney stones. I know the pain is awful, but it does pass, no pun intended, and pancreatic pain generally comes and moves in. Good luck to him.
If the pain passes I doubt it is a kidney stone. The pain is continuous and is unforgiving.
Ella, for me the pain from the kidney stone was not constant. It was only really intense when trying to get through the turns of the ureter. It sounds odd, but with the sensations that I had, I could almost track its progress.
The loin to groin pain is very typical of kidney stones
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Thank you for posting this information. My husband is having pain in back kidney area and it radiates through to his lower stomach and around his side. He has had kidney stones previously but we don't remember him having this radiating pain, especially the pain/soreness in the lower stomach area, as the pain with previous stones was in the back area.