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crystalladin
Dec 5, 2013, 01:49 PM
I have been having an abdominal pain fr the last 7 months. The pain is sharp and is on my lower left abdomen. It is an occasional pain, however, I feel the pain whenever the abdomen gets squeezed by any movement such as bending my legs towards my body or reaching forward while in a sitting position. I have made some tests when I consulted a general physician. The WBC levels are a bit high but nothing abnormal about the blood tests. As for the Ultra-sound scanning, there were no tumors or cysts or anything out of the ordinary. My ovaries and the uterus are perfectly normal. However, I still feel the pain. My physician asked me to consult a surgeon.

joypulv
Dec 5, 2013, 02:14 PM
MY SITUATION PROBABLY ISN'T YOURS.
I tell it only to indicate how hard it can be to diagnose abdominal pain.
For 35+ years I had lower left pain, in the front, from a very specific spot just under the skin to a series of places deeper in the left side of my bladder, pubis, and bowel, and down my inner thigh. A muscle has been twitching somewhat painfully for 40+ years.
I NEVER found one MD who diagnosed it. I had 2 useless surgeries. Some told me I was a hypochondriac.
A chiropractor diagnosed it in a few minutes of listening. It is scarring/irritation of my sacral nerves, which wrap around from the sacro-iliac to the front of the abdomen, and branch out. I know he was right because his treatments over several months helped a lot. But scarring that hits nerves isn't something totally fixable.

What can I say? As a woman, you will be checked over and over for problems with your reproductive organs. I suspect that a surgeon will be even less interested in examining you than your doctor, except to do an exploratory, not something I recommend (I just have a lot of numb skin). I saw a neurologist, who was also no help.

If your WBC was high, I'd have another panel in 3-4 months or so maybe.

Also, can you be very specific where on your abdomen you feel the pain. Describe in inches from your navel, and from top of pelvic bone inward.