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!
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.
