I've not been in pain for four weeks, the pain started last night!!!!!!!
the not eating has been four weeks! (maybe more?) when your unemployed, one day rolls into the next, and before you know it you have to check the calendar to see what day it is!
Zeff... I wasn't offended and sorry if my post sounded offensive! I only thought Nessa thought I had let abdominal pain go from four weeks! I was only clarifying, that is all.
So sorry all...
And yes, I know you were/are helping,and I'm considering calling the dr. Right now I'm so tired I just want to sleep!!!!!!! but can't.
I was just researching, and sometimes a rupture can cause pains.. the pain has subsided from sharp to like a cramp... you don't suppose the pain could be caused from the fall I took last night do you?
Okay, reading your post Loriann, I too thought of gallbladder, and I see how others mentioned it as I continued reading.
For unknown reasons, when I was a healthy 15, I started having sharp pains and then it became progressively worse. I had horrible gallbladder attacks, which of course at the time we did not know were gallbladder attacks. The last attack had me writhing on the floor in absolute pain, so my grandmother took me to the emergency room where I was x-rayed and etc etc, and the doctors determined it was gallstones. I had to have my gallbladder removed. The doctors did not know why a healthy 15 year old had gallbladder stones, but I guess it shows that anyone can have them.
Anyhow, get to a doctor ASAP, whatever it is. It can be quite dangerous if you keep on having those attacks (if it is in fact a gallbladder attack.)
Lower abdomen, just right of the center, in the front.
trying to think of organs in those areas....appendix, intestines (GI problem), female organs....
If it persists much longer or gets more intense....definitely get yourself to the ER....my uncle was in a coma for a month about a year ago because he ignored some piercing pains (MEN!) and it turned out to be a ruptured appendix.
Not to be an alarmist or anything....please don't freak out.
Most people with GB disease have pain in the right upper quadrant sometimes radiating to the back, have nausea/vomiting or indigestion related to eating fatty foods and have episodes where the pain is intense. It is definitely not something to fool around with because a stone can move out of the GB and into one of the important ducts around the pancreas. There are so many things that abdominal pain could be, it's best not to guess at it and to call your doctor.
