the pain that wont go away

[tashuhh]

ok so,  for the last week ive had this really really bad pain in my right side, i no right away your going to say appendix ( sorry my grammer is bad) anyways, i went to the hospital a week ago, and it got worse so they made me stay over night, they think i passed a kidney stone, made me take a cat scan but nothing showed up, at first i was told i didnt have an infection, or anything, i ended up going home with a bottle of pain killers and pills for  bladder infection,  my pain is worse and i havent gone to work all week, i cant sleep well and it hurts from my ribs to  just befour my leg starts, im going back to the hospital on monday but i just wanted to know what it could be or what it sounds like, its scarying me, im always shaky, i always hurt i cant get comfy at all and the pain pills are not working at all
any ideas on what i could do to stop this pain!!!

[tashuhh]

so i went to the hospital on sunday, no fever or anything, they told me that i never had an infection to begin with! and that they have no idea what is wrong with me, im still feeling the pain in my side and  all they can say is that it could be a pulled mussel? i never did anything to pull it or no how i could possibly have done so,  so now  dont know what to do, he told me to go see my family doctor but my family doctor told me to go to the hospital!!!
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[J T Junig, MD PhD]

If you have a fever I would be concerned about infection in the kidney, called 'pyelonephritis';  such infection can be a progression from a bladder infection that is insufficiently treated, or can be caused by an obstructed ureter-- for example from a stone in the tube that goes from the kidney to the bladder.  This type of infection can be very serious, and requires IV antibiotics for treatment.  If you don't have a fever, I would wonder about kidney stones;  a person can have a large stone called a 'calculus' in the kidney that breaks into smaller stones, causing a series of painful passing episodes.  If a stone blocks off the ureter there can be significant pain even in the absence of infection.

Other organ systems may be involved as well; the bowel, the intestines... but the location you describe does point toward the kidneys.