Why Do Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease Have Back Pain

When people have back pain, they always associate it with Polycystic Kidney Disease. Then why do patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease always have back pain? As a patient with Polycystic Kidney Disease, do you often feel pain in your lower back? If yes, let’s see what does back pain mean for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease?
Back pain is the common symptom of Polycystic Kidney Disease in early stage. For patients with this disease, about sixty percent of them have this symptom. Moreover, the incidence of back pain which prefer to female increases with ageing as well as the enlargement of cysts. The pain can be dull pain, bursting pain, pricking or knifelike pain. Acute pain and exacerbation of pain usually indicates fracture of cysts, concurrent infection or occurrence of urinary obstruction caused by stone or blood clot. Different from acute pain, chronic pain can arises from enlargement of cysts, oppression to adjacent organs, pull to diolame or renal pedicle and interstitial inflammation. Apart from these, huge liver cyst can also cause pain, but this pain happens in the location of right rib.
For patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, the appearance of back pain illustrates that their disease has aggravated and the cyst has enlarge to a certain degree. At that time, if patients do not receive any treatments, their cysts will enlarge persistently and destroy renal intrinsic cells gradually, finally leading to renal failure. Therefore, once back pain appears, the best solution for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease is to receive treatment.
For patients with this disease, the key point of treating their disease is to shrink cysts and then repair damaged renal intrinsic cells. When cyst is shrunk, the oppression to adjacent renal tissues will reduce, as a result, back pain will be relieved. What is more, the remaining renal function will be saved at the same time. In a word, for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease, the earlier they receive treatment, the easier for them to stop their disease develops into renal failure.
learn about polycystic kidney disease treatment