autoimmune flair and kidney stone
hello! i’m talking to my doctor about autoimmune symptoms on wednesday and suspect lupus (i get butterfly rashes amongst other things). i started having a flare up, including the butterfly rashes on 6/30 and kidney pain started on 7/2. my lymph nodes have been swollen this whole time and i started running a low grade fever on 7/3. this is my sixth kidney stone in a year and i’ve gotten a butterfly rash on the first day with each one.
i went to the er last night and in triage had a heart rate of 130 and high blood pressure (don’t know what it was exactly). they took a urine sample and blood, but didn’t tell me what tests they were doing. all they told me was that my urine came back clear (which it wouldn’t? i had a kidney stone) and that my blood was fine. i had on the ct a small kidney stone in my left kidney, but i was having referred pain in my right side. this is my first stone from the left kidney. they didn’t mention my pulse except for my nurse who wouldn’t let me leave until it was ~100.
today i had a fever of 99.6 that’s dropped to 99.1 and bilateral kidney pain. i passed the stone at around 7pm today. now my kidneys still hurt bilaterally and i still have tachycardia (around ~114). normally i have a kidney stone and there’s very minimal pain on the day i pass it and then no pain after.
is something weird happening here or could this just be bc of the flare up? i don’t want to possibly ignore kidney infection and this flare up does appear to be about my kidneys. my BUN was low on my last metabolic panel and so was my BUN/Creatine ratio, but my chloride serum was high. anyone else have something similar happen to them or is actively going through something similar?
i’m going back to the er or urgent care tomorrow for a second opinion if the fever and pain persist and i've called my urologist and have an appointment with my pcp wednesday so im not looking for that kind of advice (unless you’re urgently telling me i should go sooner) just looking for a similar experience.