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I was diagnosed with a kidney stone...now I have a fever?

My urine test showed some blood, but no sign of infection. I am not having any other symptoms (besides pain in my side, which is why I went to the doctor to begin with).
Today I've had a low-grade fever of 99.5 and I just feel really worn out and tired.
What could this mean? If I had some kind of infection, wouldn't my pee smell/look weird or something?
Also, there is a small chance I am pregnant...is a low grade fever a sign of pregnancy??
Thanks....

If I had a $1 for every stone I had or passed--I could have retired at 20. Some people are just more prone to developing kidney stones, especially Native Americans, Scots, and people that hold their urine too long between stops or do not drink enough water too.

Usually a stone in it's traveling down from the kidney, will scrap along the sides of the "tubing" --- producing a little blood--if you have no infection, that is good. Small stones can cause a little pain, but with the help of drinking lots of water and adding potassium citrate to the diet, can help keep the pH balance so calcium stones will not have the right medium to grow. If the stones are from uric acid, lie gout, your diet will be changed so that they will develop easily. I have had stones removed surgically, some were dissolved with special mix of gallium nitrate in a liter of water which I drank over a period of two weeks. Then stopped for 3 weeks, and then the 4th had the nitrate water again. Have been stone free now for over 4 years after years of stone making with a good diet and lots of water too. Seems it runs in my family, as does gall bladder disease (might be a correlation). Some women that have calcified fibroid, gall stones & kidney stones have been on the nitrate liquid thing and all three have disappeared--so research is an ongoing thing.

As for a higher then normal body temp ---- pregnancy can raise your temp a degree without having any infection. For some folks even 99 is normal for them. My norm is 97.2 so when it went to 99 I knew when I ovulated--some women when they first before pregnant will have a higher than normal temp--but if you blood & urine tests showed no infection--then I would not worry. You should, however, drink 12 8 oz glasses of water daily to wash out the stone or stones. Some are really small, like 1 to 2 mm in dia. I have one lodged in right kidney for years that is 7 mm--but isn't moving or causing any problems, they left it alone.

If your urine is on the dark side, drink water, the best way to flush out stones, stone gravel & keeps the urine from getting stagnant long enough to grow stones.

As a another note, some women's temp will drop down a little when they ovulate, while others will rise up a little--same can happen if the egg attaches to the wall of the uterus.

Stones can cause mild to severe pain -- depending on size and the distance it has to travel through the urethra (which can be smaller than normal so you have more pain), or large enough to move slowly, producing more scratches, pain, and bleeding, which will go away. If stone is too large, some hospitals use a machine similar to ultrasound to break it up without surgery. Some drugs are given to help dissolve stones and some need to be removed under general by removing it via bladder.

Sometimes you can get pain at your waistline (where kidney is) and is bad enough, you can get pain between your shoulder blades---but, it seems you have lucked out. Today, the equipment to detect & remove stones is less evasive then ever.

If pregnant, they will do a test before they check for a stone. Sometimes it can be found through ultrasound (it doesn't hurt the fetus) while your bladder is full -- which is uncomfortable, but worth it to real one out. Good luck. See kidney stones on WebMD.

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