Chills
Chills are an interesting symptom present with kidney stones. Normally, people would never even consider mentioning their body’s temperature as a sign of something going wrong. Still, many doctors and nurses know that chills are an important indicator. Kidney stones cause many symptoms, but pain is one of the most common. Kidney stones also cause other symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting.
Chills are one of the more unusual symptoms on this list, but they aren’t much more uncommon than nausea or vomiting. Chills indicate kidney stones because when the stone moves in your kidneys, it causes them to expand and contract. This puts pressure on the blood vessels that supply blood to your kidneys. To cope with this pressure, your body reacts by sending blood away from your kidneys and toward your skin (which is why you shiver when you’re cold). This reduces the pressure on the blood vessels that supply your kidneys.
While the specific mechanism of chills is not entirely understood, it’s commonly believed that the stones cause an increase in urine production (or at least increase urine absorption into the bloodstream). This causes body temperature to increase, but due to a compensatory response, this temperature rise is experienced as a decrease in temperature.
