when I urinate my lower left side hurts and early this morning i felt like I was having labor pains in my side. it seems like symptoms of kidney stones, but i wont know for sure till i go to the doctor. It's not excrutiating now, but it still bothers me.also what are ways to get rid of them, naturally

To echo other answers – you would know if it were a kidney stone. You would be twitching on the floor for hours in excruciating pain hoping to die. it is totally possible you are in the beginning stages (as in it is getting ready to pass)…but if you had a stone, and it were passing, you would know.

There isn't any way to get rid of them except tough it out (excluding procedures by the urologist). Drink tons of water (i.e. preferably a gallon or more, a day) and get some painkillers. Lemon juice, and the guy that keeps commenting about vinegar…all a myth. First of all, stones aren't always calcium. secondly, it is calcium OXALATE, not pure calcium, which is a compound that is insoluble to pretty much everything.

I am 24 weeks pregnant and just spent the last 4.5 passing an 8mm kidney stone. Not fun. all I could do was drink drink drink and hope for the best.

It's unlikely to be kidney stones. my sister had them and she described the pain as worse than childbirth, so if it's not excruciating, it's unlikely. Naturally? Not much, but breaking them up with ultrasound, (lithotripsy, I think it's called), is painless. it breaks the stones up and you pee them out.

Most stones are calcium. vinegar dissolves calcium.
try italian dressing on your salad.

Kidney problems from diabetes? Avoid sugar.
Get tested.

I've heard drink a lot of water to help them along, also to prevent them.

im pretty sure you just have to wait it out untill they ''pass''

My mother passed some kidney stones. A little background: she has had multiple kidney infections over many years' time. she always treated them by downing a gallon of cranberry juice and water. they always went away. she has had them for most of her adult life, and always gotten rid of them by drinking lots of cranberry juice and water. she would drink at least a gallon of the juice over a few hours' time. So this particular time, she felt a kidney infection coming on. Pain in her back, mild fever (just a degree or two over norm). So she drank cranberry juice and water, like normal. it lasted a few days though, and wasn't going away. she was having trouble urinating, but since this was also pretty normal, she just forced herself to urinate as much as she could. at one point, she actually passed the stones. she was on the toilet, forcing herself to pee, and she said the pain was worse than labor and that she almost passed out. she has delivered 7 children, so she knows what labor feels like. she was so worried about the pain, she went to the ER thinking something must be horribly wrong. the doctor was able to determine that she had passed kidney stones. she saw a urologist afterwards, and he said that her years of kidney infections and the fact that she treated with cranberry juice helped contribute to her getting stones. I can't remember exactly what it was, but he said there is something in cranberries that actually makes you develop stones more easily. he told her in the future, if she felt a kidney infection coming on, to drink lemonade she made herself, and to use REAL lemon juice. Not from concentrate, and nothing lemon flavored. to use actual lemons. he said the lemon juice would accomplish the same thing as the cranberry juice (flush out her system) but wouldn't increase her chance of having more kidney stones. So I suggest you try that. and if you do have kidney stones, I assure you, you will know it from the pain.