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Can Back Pain Be Due To Kidney Stones?

Back pain around waist below ribs for a couple months, had 2 ct scans doctors say don t know why - had kidney infection took med to clear, now clear but still have pain....ct shows had stone but not now...so need to know if I should get 2nd opinion ???
Wed, 5 Nov 2014
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Hi,
Thanks for writing in.

There are many reasons for a pain in the lower ribs other than a renal stone. The commonest pain I can think of might be associated with your ribs and muscles. I say this keeping in mind that your CT scan is normal and the pain is more in the ribs and anterior chest wall. There are conditions like costochondritis which is an inflammation of the cartilage component of ribs and this does not show any features on CT scan. Apart from costochondritis, there can be muscle spasm causing such a pain.

If the pain is from the inside then I will suggest you to get an endoscopy done to look for gastritis features in the stomach. This usually causes burning pain behind the sternum and related to long hours of fasting.

A kidney stone if not present will not cause these symptoms.
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Can Back Pain Be Due To Kidney Stones?

Hi, Thanks for writing in. There are many reasons for a pain in the lower ribs other than a renal stone. The commonest pain I can think of might be associated with your ribs and muscles. I say this keeping in mind that your CT scan is normal and the pain is more in the ribs and anterior chest wall. There are conditions like costochondritis which is an inflammation of the cartilage component of ribs and this does not show any features on CT scan. Apart from costochondritis, there can be muscle spasm causing such a pain. If the pain is from the inside then I will suggest you to get an endoscopy done to look for gastritis features in the stomach. This usually causes burning pain behind the sternum and related to long hours of fasting. A kidney stone if not present will not cause these symptoms.