Is it possible to feel a kidney stone is forming?

[Desgraau]

I had a kidney stone about a year ago, which due to things I don't understand managed to not pass and sit undetected for 3 months before moving again. I had to have it surgically removed. Each time it occurred, I noticed peach-colored or brown urine at least 3 days before.

After the procedure, I've felt fine and I've changed my diet to hopefully avoid kidney stones. Ever since late July though, I've been experiencing this dull pinching back pain. It's not enough pain to even take Ibuprofen, but it always feels like that sudden jolt of something not feeling right that I distinctly remember when the kidney stone starts to move. The weirdest thing is, though it usually comes from the kidney area, the same recognizable pain will come from my shoulder blade, lower back (below the kidney area), even sometimes abdominally. It doesn't even stay on one side of the back either, popping up on the left side as well (the side I didn't have a kidney stone pass through). I just don't know if it's something I should be concerned about or not. I probably wouldn't think anything of it if I didn't know that initial feeling of a kidney stone, but it's always exactly like that, recurring every day at random. I guess my real question is, could this just be widespread back pain? I just hate knowing that every day I'm going to get a small jolt of pain that makes me stop everything I'm doing to see if it grows and pulses.

[Unclebuck257]

Desgraau,

To answer you first question, that kidney stone can be in your kidney for quite a while and you wouldn't feel it until it started to move. That's been my experience over the past thirty years or more with these darn things. To answer your second question, which I can only answer from my own experience, if the pain you are experiencing on a daily basis was another kidney stone, the pain would have increased to the unbearable level by now, according to what you're saying. I've never had one stone do what you are describing, and I've had well over 35 of them in all these years. I stopped counting at 35 stones. Anyway, from my personal experience, the pain may start out as somewhat milder, but quickly moves to the unbearable level. I've never had one act as you describe so I'd bet it is variable back pain you are now experiencing. Oh, and I've also had the brown and red blood colored urine you are describing too with some of the tougher stones I've had to deal with in the past. Good Luck with your problem and I'd bet it's a back problem of some kind.