Patient's question:
My mother always feels kidney pain and lower back pain, and she also has blood in her urine. I searched online and found that it might be polycystic kidney disease. I want to know if polycystic kidney disease causes pain, and whether my mother might have polycystic kidney disease.Doctor's answer:
Kidney pain is a symptom of polycystic kidney disease, often accompanied by pressure or dull pain in the back and waist, but it can also be accompanied by severe pain, sometimes with abdominal pain. Physical activity, long walks, and a sedentary lifestyle can continuously exacerbate the pain, while resting in bed can reduce it. Internal bleeding, rapid movement of stones, or infection can also be causes of sudden severe pain. Approximately half of patients with hematuria exhibit microscopic hematuria, which may be caused by intermittent gross hematuria due to the rupture of blood vessels in the cyst wall. After a long period of rupture, blood clots can lead to ureteral colic.