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Q: pain to upper abdoman in the middle
asked by: snowfly on July 5th, 2009
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So I have been suffering with a few problems recently. But yesterday I had a onset of severe pain to my upper abdoman in the middle. That came with the shakes, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea and clammy feeling. This pain was definately 10/10 the only way to describe it was it was like contractions. I could hardly stand at one point and felt like I would pass out. I was rushed to A&E. They took a few tests. They all came back normal, except for my liver function which came back slightly abnormal. These pains lasted for about 45 minutes, but had 2 smaller attacks at the hospital. I have had them before and always feel a tenderness to that area.

Bit of background. I have had my Appendix out (was only slightly swollen though), have had pancreatitis, also had my gall bladder removed about 3 years ago (they say it looked abnormal and think it was cause of pancreatitis). I am also suffering with itchy bottom at the moment, only a few internal small piles. I had a bleed last week from my bottom which was a lot of blood. I had not strained in fact I had just woken up! So bleed was for no reason. I do get some small amounts of blood caused by piles but this was a lot! Have a lump to the back of my groin, upper of my thigh, think it a cyst, it the size of a pea. Suffering with knee aches and pains at the moment too also getting constipation. Get the odd lower stomach cramps but this upper one frightened me.

So wondering if it is all connected to the really severe pain I had yesterday. I did take 10mg of morphine for lower cramps that morning, I did have slight pain to upper abdominal then, but it got worse after morphine, although the lower cramps got better.

Thank you for any light shed on this, it is depressing me
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MandMs
replied on July 6th, 2009
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This sounds as a pancreatitis attack.
People, with only one episode of acute pancreatitis, can develop chronic form of pancreatitis overtime.
Abdominal pain due to this condition, is centered in the upper middle or upper left part of the abdomen, usually begining rapidly and is very severe one.
It is accompanied with symptoms like nausea, rapid heartbeat, swollen abdomen tender to touch, chills, weakness, feeling lightheaded or faint, headache, confusion, difficulty breathing.
The lower abdominal pains are most likely related to your constipation problem.
Anal bleeding is probably due to inner hemorrhoids, which can be manifested by passing large amounts of light red blood, or smaller amounts of blood covering the stool.
Inner hemorrhoids are related with production of excess mucus, that escapes the anal sphincter, gets onto the skin surrounding it on the outside, and dries there. This both dries out and irritates the area.
Also, an inner hemorrhoids can interfere with proper anus closure, leading to leakage of small amounts of stool, which also dries and irritates the surrounding skin.
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snowfly
replied on July 7th, 2009
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Thank you so much for your reply. They did bloods and only found what they said was liver function slightly abnormal (although doc says my ammilese has been slightly raised in past attacks)

Could this still be pancreatitis with the bloods coming back as only slight liver function abnormalities? I am feeling depressed and down now not knowing what is wrong with me Sad
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