Kidney Stones Versus Uti. Uti or kidney stones. Kidney stones can be tricky since they may have many of the same symptoms as a uti or a kidney infection pain when urinating needing to urinate often and cloudy or strong smelling urine blood in the urine fever nausea or vomiting.
Some of the risk factors for kidney stones are. Stones vary in size. And while stones often pass on their own larger stones sometimes need to be broken up or removed.
Since the medication is not working it is important to be evaluated by a doctor.
Telling a kidney stone apart from a kidney infection may not be as easy as you hoped it would be. While infection in the kidneys is called acute pyelonephritis infection in the bladder and the urethra are called cystitis and urethritis respectively. As with utis anyone can develop one or more kidney stones. Since the medication is not working it is important to be evaluated by a doctor.