Health Information : Bladder Stones

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What are Bladder Stones?

Bladder Stones are formed when the minerals build up in your bladder. This usually happens when your bladder doesn’t get completely empty after urination and the minerals in the leftover urine crystallise to form stones. Generally, these stones are very small and don’t cause any problem but when they get stuck to the walls of the bladder or ureter, they become bigger with time and start troubling.

What causes Bladder Stones?

Bladder Stones are formed when your bladder doesn’t empty itself completely of urine and this happens due to following medical conditions:

• Neurogenic bladder
• Prostate enlargement
• Medical devices
• Bladder inflammation
• Kidney stones travelling down into bladder
• Bladder diverticula
• Cystocele

What are the symptoms of Bladder Stones?

When the Bladder Stones irritate the wall of bladder or block urine flow, then following symptoms are noticed:

• Lower abdominal pain
• Pain/discomfort in penis or testicles (in men)
• Burning sensation during urination
• Increased frequency of urination
• Difficulty in passing urine
• Blood in urine
• Cloudy or very dark urine

How can Bladder Stones be treated?

All bladder stones need to be removed endoscopically. The procedure is called as Cystolitholapsy / Cystolithotripsy / PCCL