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Q: Stomach Pain
asked by: kbee11 on June 28th, 2008
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Hello! New to the forum! I am 22 years old, and started getting stomach aches about 3-4 year ago when I lost 60 lbs. Which I didn't do a drastic weight loss diet or anything it took about a year and a half. They are hard to describe, a consant nagging pain, not really sharp or crampy, but throughout my whole mid-section. Very painful, they will just appear without warning and usually last between 30min to 2 hours. The only thing that ever helps them is to ice my entire mid section. I can't connect them to a certain food, or to bowel movements b/c those are regular. However crazy this may sound they do seem to happen more often when I eat healthy, and limit sugary carbs. When I eat fast food or high fat foods they don't happen. I have been to the docter and they basically told me that they weren't as painfull as I am making them out to be, and said I probably had IBS from anxiety, and perscribed Lexipro, and a chewable pill for cramps. But there aren't really cramp pains. And neither of those helped. They don't really happen that often maybe 3-4 times a month. But when they do it is terrible, b/c I have to ice them and lay down. Please Help!
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Dr. Nikola
replied on July 2nd, 2008
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Lucky for you that you can eat whatever you want and that you find a way how to relief the pain.
Anyway it is very hard to say what could be causing your abdominal pains without making some diagnostic procedures like: standard blood test, Helicobacter pillory serology, ultrasound scan and gastroscopy.
IBS could be one of the possibilities but let us first exclude gastritis, peptic ulcer, chronic pancreatitis, gallstones, diverticulitis etc.
You can consult some gastroenterologist.
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