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Can Severe Abdominal Pain Indicate IBS As Per The Attached Reports?
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Wed, 13 Sep 2017
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Question : Hey doctor the last 2 and half weeks or so I have had a heavy ache in the lower right side of my abodmen I have attached a picture of exactly where. But it just feels like someone is pushing down on my stomach and it some times comes on as stitch like pain that hurts when I am walking. I have already had an ultrasound of my renal/urinary tract area and a lower abodmen which came up with nothing along with two urine tests which were also negative. Could this be simply a case of ibs or maybe a uti even though the test cams up negative? I am 20 years old as well but not sexually active though allthough I do masterbate a fair bit if that could cause it?Would it be worth trying antibiotics or could I wait a bit longer to see if it will go away?
Also to add where I am pointing on the image I have attached it feels as if there is a vein sticking out I am not sure if it's normally like that though I can just feel the vein when I put my finger on that area and that''s where the heavy ache starts from. There has been days as well where it isn't as bad and I don't feel it as much.
I've also noticed some white specs that have been floating after I urinate into the toilet bowl?
Also to add where I am pointing on the image I have attached it feels as if there is a vein sticking out I am not sure if it's normally like that though I can just feel the vein when I put my finger on that area and that''s where the heavy ache starts from. There has been days as well where it isn't as bad and I don't feel it as much.
I've also noticed some white specs that have been floating after I urinate into the toilet bowl?
Brief Answer:
May be an indirect inguinal hernia beginning
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query and an elucidate history along with a clear photo.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
As per the information and the photo that you have provided, the most probable cause looks to be a bubonocele that is starting of indirect inguinal hernia.
Please do the following and let me know the results.
Put the fingers or palm and cough hard in laying down position and see if something hits the fingers.
Give additional information:
Do you go for hard/heavy exercises?
Does the pain radiate to the the scrotum?
Any urinary or bowel symptoms?
I hope this answer helps you.
Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries and give detailed feedback.
May be an indirect inguinal hernia beginning
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query and an elucidate history along with a clear photo.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
As per the information and the photo that you have provided, the most probable cause looks to be a bubonocele that is starting of indirect inguinal hernia.
Please do the following and let me know the results.
Put the fingers or palm and cough hard in laying down position and see if something hits the fingers.
Give additional information:
Do you go for hard/heavy exercises?
Does the pain radiate to the the scrotum?
Any urinary or bowel symptoms?
I hope this answer helps you.
Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries and give detailed feedback.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
It does feel like something is hitting thr fingers like a vein.
I dont exercise heavly and not really that often at all.
Not as far as scrotum but it does radiate a bit further down from where my finger is in the picture. I have had bowel issues on and off the last couple of months with constiption and diarreah and I have a colonscopy scheduled next month. Not my urinary symptons just feels like there is a bit of pressure around the are I pointed to in the picture but as I said the ultrasound and urine tests came up normal. Could it be an appendix issue or appendix/bowel cancer at my age? The pain I am having as well is more uncomfortable than super painful but it is a enough to distrupt my day to day life and not being able to stop thinking about it. I have also had some pains under my right and left ribs and I do suffer from health anxiety issues.
I dont exercise heavly and not really that often at all.
Not as far as scrotum but it does radiate a bit further down from where my finger is in the picture. I have had bowel issues on and off the last couple of months with constiption and diarreah and I have a colonscopy scheduled next month. Not my urinary symptons just feels like there is a bit of pressure around the are I pointed to in the picture but as I said the ultrasound and urine tests came up normal. Could it be an appendix issue or appendix/bowel cancer at my age? The pain I am having as well is more uncomfortable than super painful but it is a enough to distrupt my day to day life and not being able to stop thinking about it. I have also had some pains under my right and left ribs and I do suffer from health anxiety issues.
Brief Answer:
As detailed below.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your feedback.
Looks to be hernia as explained and thus get confirmed by an examination by a General Surgeon.
Simple stool tests for three consecutive days may get you a proper diagnosis for bowel issues.
Cancer: not possible.
Appendicitis would have shown on an ultrasound.
Anxiety can give costochondritis causing pain at or just below lower ribs.
I hope this answer helps you further.
Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
As detailed below.
Detailed Answer:
Thanks for your feedback.
Looks to be hernia as explained and thus get confirmed by an examination by a General Surgeon.
Simple stool tests for three consecutive days may get you a proper diagnosis for bowel issues.
Cancer: not possible.
Appendicitis would have shown on an ultrasound.
Anxiety can give costochondritis causing pain at or just below lower ribs.
I hope this answer helps you further.
Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Hey doc just an update I am noticing that I am finding it hard to pee and that I feel pain that spot in the image where I am pointing towards. Could it maybe be a uti still then or definitely not?
Brief Answer:
Only repeat investigations can tell
Detailed Answer:
In UTI there is usually frequency of urination, burning but hesitancy can be a symptom if there is any obstruction to the outflow.
Repeat tests/investigations can alone tell about the exact problem.
Request for CT scan of the abdomen as it can clear lots of problems like appendicitis, most of the urinary problems and other conditions.
Only repeat investigations can tell
Detailed Answer:
In UTI there is usually frequency of urination, burning but hesitancy can be a symptom if there is any obstruction to the outflow.
Repeat tests/investigations can alone tell about the exact problem.
Request for CT scan of the abdomen as it can clear lots of problems like appendicitis, most of the urinary problems and other conditions.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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