left flank pain

[jringo8769]

Hi i have been in constant pain for 9 months from a unknown problem that my area doctors seem to be stumped by...the short of it..recently i was working and feel to the floor in terrible agony....grasping my left flank..peeing blood very red in color..pain seemed to lessen so i continued to work for about 4 weeks in constant pain due to holidays last year and job responsibilities..when i got the first chance to see a dr..i went to see a urologist who is local to me..they found nothing wrong with me so they ordered test after test with still no answers...i am still in chronic pain and where i live they seem to have given up on me...i am only 38 and up till now in excellent health.. i was working 14-46 hr days up till i got sick...i have been a athlete all my life and now i am unable to work and confined to home due to get around without pain..i will not take pain killers...i just want answers..can you help...pain seems to be centralized to left front..just above groin area..when pain gets it's worst..it is on both sides in front and when really bad is even in back...i have had no blood in urine in a long time but is painful and i seem to be retaining excess water...thanks and God Bless John

[Stephen Liroff, MD]

I cannot provide an answer on the basis of the symptoms alone. It sounds as though you had a reasonable work-up and you did see the right specialty initially. I wonder if the problem is in a nerve from your spine giving you a referred pain. Certainly if your pain changes with movement/position, it is unlikely to be of a urologic cause. I think that your best plan would be to get a fresh set of physicians evaluating you. This could be locally or go to a teaching center and see a primary care physician and bring all of your x-rays (the films) and lab reports.
Good luck!
S.A.Liroff, M.D.
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[taurusgem1]

I had something similar in 99 and it turned out I passed two stones to the area right above my bladder and no one caught it because it was blocked in X-rays by my pelvic bone... Have the uroligist look at your x-ray and see if your tubing from your lfet kidney to your bladder looks defromed or irratated maybe something similar is happening to you. With me they didn't figure it out until 01 because I finally had a kidney stone in my kidney.

[jringo8769]

Hi well i just recently saw Dr.Jaffe from Pittsburgh and he recommended i see a Renal Nephrologist..they just called me from Cleveland Clinic and I have to go there on Thurs am..thanks again and God Bless John

[jringo8769]

They did send me to a two Dr's to check to see if i had any pinched nerves or back issues and they both stated they felt it may be a kidney problem...