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Suggest Treatment For Dark Colored Urine And Back Pain

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Posted on Thu, 18 Sep 2014
Question: i have a history of kidney stones. Currently my urine is very dark, some back pain and a mid-level, persistent fever for 3 days and extremely tired.

Are you able to prescribe an antibiotic?
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Answered by Dr. Grzegorz Stanko (54 minutes later)
Brief Answer:
Detailed below.

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Thank you for the query.

No, we can not prescribe an antibiotic here.
Dark urine can be caused by several reasons. First, most common is low fluids intake. Second, associated with back pain is bile ducts obstruction due to stones what causes bilirubin presence in the urine. With this issue you should have also whitish stool and some nausea. Fever can be present.
Urinary tract infection can also give dark urine along with back pain and fever.
If bile ducts problem is possible, you should have endoscopy with ERCP procedure done.
In case of urinary tract infection, antibiotic and increased liquids intake along with cranberries supplementation should help.
Both, stones in bile duct and urinary tract infection should not be treated without doctors attention. Please do not wait with it.

Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.
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Suggest Treatment For Dark Colored Urine And Back Pain

Brief Answer: Detailed below. Detailed Answer: Hello! Thank you for the query. No, we can not prescribe an antibiotic here. Dark urine can be caused by several reasons. First, most common is low fluids intake. Second, associated with back pain is bile ducts obstruction due to stones what causes bilirubin presence in the urine. With this issue you should have also whitish stool and some nausea. Fever can be present. Urinary tract infection can also give dark urine along with back pain and fever. If bile ducts problem is possible, you should have endoscopy with ERCP procedure done. In case of urinary tract infection, antibiotic and increased liquids intake along with cranberries supplementation should help. Both, stones in bile duct and urinary tract infection should not be treated without doctors attention. Please do not wait with it. Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions. Regards.