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What Causes Pain Around The Kidney On The Left Side?

my name is Ruby Grigsby ill be 50 the fifth of next month about 1 or 2 months ago I saw the shingles commercial on tv I remember my mother telling me that I had chicken pox measles mumps whooping cough and some more stuff well I started having pains in my left kidney area really bad then one morning I woke up to a bad rash from beside my private up my leg and some on my lower back and a dot on my bottom now I have a few scars on my upper thigh area but the shooting pain still feels like my kidney is going to bust out of my back what to do i m going nuts i m also a breast cancer survivor and I take arimidex for 7 more years but my left side still hurts what s up can it be fixed and ive took the pills for shingles had 3 shots and it s still taking me out help me out please they r not for sure that its a kidney stone because I got 2 different answers but I did get shingles please help me
Mon, 27 Aug 2018
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This may be is caused by urinary infection including kidneys infection or urinary stones so you should do urine analysis, urinoculture and kidneys ultrasound to rule these out which are most common causes. You should drink raspberry tea and plenty of water till you do tests. You should reduce salt in your diet as well, alcohol and carbonated drinks. In most cases this is self limiting but sometimes antibiotics are required and more invasive tests such as cystoscopy or pyelography or CT scan. Less common causes include tumors, glomerulonephritis and metabolic diseases.

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What Causes Pain Around The Kidney On The Left Side?

Hi, This may be is caused by urinary infection including kidneys infection or urinary stones so you should do urine analysis, urinoculture and kidneys ultrasound to rule these out which are most common causes. You should drink raspberry tea and plenty of water till you do tests. You should reduce salt in your diet as well, alcohol and carbonated drinks. In most cases this is self limiting but sometimes antibiotics are required and more invasive tests such as cystoscopy or pyelography or CT scan. Less common causes include tumors, glomerulonephritis and metabolic diseases. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.