Kidney Stones Feel Like Period Cramps

It could be kidney stones.

Kidney stones feel like period cramps. Pain lasted for quite a while this morning so went to dr s. Posted on here few weeks ago about getting period like cramps waking me in the night in my lower back and front. Sometimes kidney stone pain starts as a dull ache but it can quickly escalate to severe cramping or sharp wincing pain.

Kidney stone symptoms in women are usually very similar to or the same as kidney stone symptoms in men. Assumed it was just pregnancy niggles. I d say you would know if the pain is so different from your menstrual cramps.

What makes kidney stones so painful is that they block the flow of urine from the kidney. I often suffer with kidney stones too so i m not sure if i had a kidney attack or if it was actually cramps i had for the first time. When urine gets backed up it can create waves of pain and cramping in a similar effect to labor contractions.

I have had it for years. I have a 4mm kidney stone in right kidney. I can t speak for period cramps per se other than what gfs have told me about them but i can speak for a kidney stone.

Stomach or side pain tests like an ultrasound or a ct scan may diagnose a stone. I can t even imagine how it would feel in both. Sometimes the kidney stone can travel down the ureter the tube between the kidney and.

You usually feel it in your back or side underneath your rib cage. Stones cause symptoms like pain trouble urinating cloudy. A sharp burning pain under my rib cage and a burning and pulling downwa read more.