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What Causes Abdominal Pain In Left Side?

I have a pain in my left abdominal area has been going for months i thought it was my daily medications causing this dull feeling so i stopped taking them for a week but the pain is still there i am also a type 2 diabetic and taking insulin could that be a reason for this stomach pain
posted on Wed, 13 May 2015
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Hi.
Read and understood your history of having Diabetes type II under medication and have left sided abdominal pain for months. Stopping other medicines have not helped to ease the pain.

This indicates that we have to find the cause of the pain:
This is possible by the following way:
- First of all a good clinical evaluation and proper physical examination by a General Surgeon with your detailed history (which you have not mentioned here) will help to get a clinical diagnosis and guide for the Investigations like:
-CT scan of the abdomen
Colonoscopy
Upper GI Endoscopy
And tests of blood, urine and stool.

Once the diagnosis is made, the treatment will be a guided one and there is a chance of cure.
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What Causes Abdominal Pain In Left Side?

Hi. Read and understood your history of having Diabetes type II under medication and have left sided abdominal pain for months. Stopping other medicines have not helped to ease the pain. This indicates that we have to find the cause of the pain: This is possible by the following way: - First of all a good clinical evaluation and proper physical examination by a General Surgeon with your detailed history (which you have not mentioned here) will help to get a clinical diagnosis and guide for the Investigations like: -CT scan of the abdomen Colonoscopy Upper GI Endoscopy And tests of blood, urine and stool. Once the diagnosis is made, the treatment will be a guided one and there is a chance of cure.