Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 7 Location: los angeles
Lower Left Quadrant Pains Posted: 01-09-06 06:00am
In the beginning of august I was working
out at the gym like normal ,on the
eliptical machine. Then after about 5 or
10 minutes I felt this sharp pain in my
lower stomach. I had just turned vegan
about a month prior to that so I started
taking vitamens to supplement my diet. I
figured that sharp pain was from taking
too many vitamins. However within a
couple of days the pain came back and I
could tell it was not going to go away.
I do not have insurance so I went to a
free clinic, I saw a nurse and she said
maybe it's really bad cramps and she sent
me to go get an ultrasound and the doctor
at the ultrasound said he didn't see
anything, I went back for the follow up at
the cllinic and the nurse figuered it was
just a bad case of cramps and sent me on
my way. That happened in september. In
october a friend took me to another clinic
where another young doctor thought again
that it's just really bad cramps however
he gave me an xray of my stomach just to
make sure. So the xray doctor came in
and said everything is fine. So I still
felt the pain and I went to another doctor
in novermber at anther clinic and told him
about my pain and I asked for a refferal
to a gastro doctor and he said have you
seen an oby and I said no only a nurse so
he said okay i'll set you up with an
appointment with an obyn doctor first
cause that's what you might need. That
appointment isn't till april. I went to
the er this wednesday because I am tired
of this thing in my stomach hurting one
day then hurt a week and a half later then
2 days later and I don't know what's wrong
with it. The doctor camae in and I told
him where the pain was (just to the left
of my left hip bone) he put his hand there
and could feel something there. So he
scheduled me for a cat scan hours later
the cat scan camae back and they found a
mass there about 3 by 5 cm. They don't
know what it is or where it is
exactly(above my uterous and below my
intestines is what that doctor said) he
callled surgery just to make sure I didn't
need one and they said no just send her to
the women's dept. So when I left there
the doctor told me that they might do an
mri down there and some other things.
When I got to the woment's they took my
vitals then gave me an ultrasound. This
time the doctor could see the mass in the
ultrsound and I saw it too, it looked like
the leter p inflated like a ballon pointed
towards my left side(oh by the way in the
catscan the mass looks like it's in the
middle of my body) I told the doctor that
and she said sometimes when people have
pain from something it sometimes comes
from anthor area I don't remember the name
she used for it. But I do remember her
using the term tumor for my condition.
So she said she would call me to schedule
an ultra sound (stomach) because that will
be more thourogh and I will come back to
them in 3 weeks but I won't have my
results yet so I will come again to go
over the ultrasound results. Another
thing I forgot to mention is I am a virgin
so at all visits each doctor atempted to
give me a pap smear but was un able to
because of me being virginal.
I left and they told me if I have any pain
to come back to the er a day or 2 went by
and I couldn't stop crying and worrying so
I went back sat at 2 in the morning.
Again the doctor tried to give me a pap
smear he ev en tried to put the ultrsound
in my vagina ,but it didn't work. He
could't see the mass in the ultrasound,
when I told him where my pain was he
couldn't find it. I said I would take
his hand and put it on the part of my
stomach were the pain was but he
prefeerred to do it his way and he just
took is finger tips and poked the area he
really didn't feel it he just poked it.
So then he sent me back up to the er and I
told the young doctor there 1st please
more than anything I want a refeereall to
the stomach(gastr) doctor because no one
knows wha't wrong with me and I figure
they will know best what's wrong with that
area he said I can't do that but I will
give you an appointemnent for an
ultrasound on monday and if they can find
something then they can give you a
referral to a stomach doctor.
Today I felt the pain again, even right
now, not as sharp but I could feel it
i am always aware that that thing is there
even if it's not very painful. I c an't
live like this worrying and crying all the
time. There is someone out there that
can help me, I know there is I just
haven'[t found them yet, but I want to
find them soon because I can't bear the
pain of not knowing what's wrong with me
and the thought that I will feel that pain
again knowing that that mass,tumor, and
cystic fibriod thing is near my uterous
and intestines.Please help me!
