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Kidney stones symptoms

While some kidney stones may not produce kidney stones symptoms (known as "silent" stones), people who have kidney stones often report the sudden onset of excruciating, cramping pain in their low back and/or side, groin, or abdomen.
Changes in body position do not relieve this pain. The pain typically waxes and wanes in severity, characteristic of colicky pain (the pain is sometimes referred to as renal colic).

It may be so severe that it is often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
Kidney stones also characteristically cause blood in the urine.
If infections is present in the urinary tract along with the kidney stones, there may be fever and chills.

Kidney stones symptoms include:

- Colicky pain: "loin to groin". Often described as "the worst pain ever experienced".
- Hematuria: blood in the urine, due to minor damage to inside wall of kidney, ureter and/or urethra.
- Pyuria: pus in the urine.
- Dysuria: burning on urination when passing kidney stones (rare). More typical of infection.
- Oliguria: reduced urinary volume caused by obstruction of the bladder or urethra by stone, or extremely rarely, simultaneous obstruction of both ureters by a kidney stone.
- Abdominal distension.
- Nausea/vomiting: embryological link with intestine- stimulates the vomiting center.
- Fever and chills.
- Hydronephrosis
- Postrenal azotemia: when kidney stones block ureter
- Frequency in micturition: Defined as an increase in number of voids per day (>than 5 times), but not polyuria, an increase of total urine output per day (2500 ml).
- Loss of appetite
- Loss of weight.

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