Choose a symptom and answer simple questions using our physician-reviewed symptom checker to find more information on your health issue.
Do you have pain or burning with urination?
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Is your urine cloudy?
Do you have a fever and/or backache or abdominal pain? Do you have nausea and/or are you vomiting?
Pain with urination and fever, along with abdominal or back pain and/or nausea/vomiting may be caused by an infection of the kidneys called PYELONEPHRITIS.
Do you have sharp, knife-like, intense pains in your back or abdomen that seem to shoot down or move toward your groin?
You may have a KIDNEY STONE or another serious problem.
Are you a man, and do you have an ache under your scrotum or deep inside your pelvis?
You may have PROSTATITIS, an infection of the prostate gland.
Are you a man, and do you have a white discharge from the tip of your penis? Does anything other than semen or urine come out of the tip of your penis?
These may be symptoms of an INFECTION such as URETHRITIS or a SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION, such as GONORRHEA.
Do you have the urge to urinate after just using the restroom, and are you only urinating small amounts at a time?
Your symptoms may be caused by an infection in the bladder, called CYSTITIS, or from an irritation of the bladder, called INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS, or from a KIDNEY STONE stuck in the bladder.
Are you producing more urine than usual?
Have you been losing weight, drinking lots of fluids, and/or have a family history of diabetes?
You may have DIABETES, a condition in which your body lacks insulin or doesn’t use it in the right way. This leads to an increase of blood sugar in your body and makes you want to drink water all the time.
Are you a woman, and do you leak urine when you cough or sneeze?
Your symptoms may be from a weakness in the bladder due to a previous childbirth or aging, called STRESS INCONTINENCE.
Are you a man, and do you leak or dribble urine after you urinate, or do you have problems starting the urine stream, or do you wake many times at night to urinate?
You may have a problem with your PROSTATE GLAND. Your symptoms may be caused by a benign (non-cancerous) ENLARGEMENT or a more serious condition such as INFECTION or CANCER.
Do you have blood in your urine?
You may have a KIDNEY STONE, a TUMOR in the kidney or bladder, a BLADDER INFECTION, TRAUMA to your kidney, or possibly a BLEEDING DISORDER.
See your doctor right away.
EMERGENCY See your doctor or go to the emergency room right away.
See your doctor.
Absorbent protection (adult diapers or pads) may be helpful. Kegel exercises may help strengthen muscles that support the bladder. See your doctor.
For more information, please talk to your doctor. If you think the problem is serious, call your doctor right away.
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