How Common Is Severe Sciatic Nerve Pain With Kidney Stones?
June 2nd, 2009 | 
Author: I’ve been diagnosed with kidney stones. But most of my pain is in my left thigh and groin. Is this unusual or from some other cause than the kidney or ureter’s swelling pushing against or pinching the sciatic nerve?
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It is possible that the pain from the kidney stones is causing you to feel pain in other places just because you hold your body differently when you’re in pain. Sometimes pain also seems to radiate out from the source. Now, you could have something else going on and so you should mention the pain to your physician the next time you visit him/her. You may want to put gentle pressure on the area where you’re feeling pain to see if there are any areas of acute pain and let the doctor know where those are. If you do have more pain in a certain location you should visit the doctor sooner rather than later.
As a general note for kidney stones – make sure that you drink plenty of water and keep yourself hydrated. Hope you feel better soon.
I HAVE PERSONALLY HAD BOTH MEDICAL SITUATIONS.. SCIATIC NERVE IS PAINFUL RUNNING DOWN YOUR BACK ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SPINE AND MIDDLE OF BOTH BUTT CHEEKS AND DOWN THE BACK OF YOUR THIGHS..CAN BE PULLED–INFLAMMED AND TORN… ALSO THE KIDNEY STONES HURTS LIKE HELL IN THE LOWER AND MIDDLE OF YOUR BACK.. BREATH TAKING WHEN THE STONE IS LODGED, AND KNOCKS YOU ON YOUR HIND END…THERES A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE PAIN WITH SCIATIC NERVE PULL AND KIDNEY STONES..YOU SURE YOU HAVEN’T PULLED A GROIN MUSCLE? SURE SOUNDS A BIT LIKE THAT SITUATION…..
I don’t think that your sciatic nerve would have anything to do with your kidney stones.
Sounds like referred pain, these are TWO different things
The sciatic nerve runs down the right leg from the back and is caused by sitting on somethging cold in the winter for example or a spine problem.
Kidney stones canb cause back pain, thats the only similaritry
Sciatica: pain raditiates from lower back i.e. L4& L5 region and radites to back of buttocks and thigh and in severe cases to calf muscles.
Renal Colic radites from back to front of lower abdomen and to penis,depending on the site, burning micturation, RBC count increases greatly(numerous) and so are WBC cont in in urine D/R.
Very rarely do you get both together and easily diagnosd on ultra sonagram of KUB and Xray lumbar Spine.
Well, when my husband had kidney stones, they put him on a morphine drip, so I imagine it can get pretty darn bad. He had a non-invasive form of “surgery” where they pounded on the kidney’s using some form of shockwaves(while he was under) and broke the stones up. As the kidney could only undergo so much at once…he had to come back 3 other times, so each kidney could be pounded a total of twice. That bruised him up pretty badly each time, but now no kidney stones.