Do you have stomach pain or abdominal pain when eating or drinking?
Kidney stones is condition different from kidney infection (although, in some cases stones can be form when there is a kidney infection and kidney infection can be triggered by stone obstruction). You can have kidney infection without kidney stones.
Kidney infection is a specific type of urinary tract infection, that generally begins in your urethra or bladder and travels up into your kidneys.
It's symptoms are: frequent urination, persistent urge to urinate, pain when urinating, abdominal pain or pressure, inability to urinate, need to urinate during the night, back, side (flank) or groin pain and fever.
Most uncomplicated bladder infections can be treated with just three days of medication.
Depending on the used drug and patient, the treatment can be prolonged for a week.
For how long you are experiencing chronic recurrent bladder infection?