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What Causes Left Side Abdominal Pains?

My sister feels some pain on her left side right now, to the left of her stomach. She says that it feels like the same pain that she feels after running for long periods of time, long ago. Lately, she has not ran for a long time (2 yrs or so), and she suddenly feels that same time. Moreover, she has felt it for 4-5 hours now. What should we do?
posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Since your sister says the pains she is feeling now are the same way when she used to have have long runs , suggests this to be more of a muscular origin.
It is possibly a spasm of the muscle which can be instigated even by a trivial trauma or sudden movement from rest to get something.

What should you do ? > I would suggest you the following for your sister.
-First of all ask her to lay in the bed without any movements to get a full rest.
Give her any analgesic if you have.
Shift her to ER or a Hospital for :
Actual physical examination by a Surgeon so that a proper clinical evaluation can be done to get a clinical diagnosis , to get a proper order for which investigations to be done and proper treatment.
Investigations needed may be high resolution ultrasonography of the abdomen and abdominal wall .
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What Causes Left Side Abdominal Pains?

Hi. Thanks for your query. Since your sister says the pains she is feeling now are the same way when she used to have have long runs , suggests this to be more of a muscular origin. It is possibly a spasm of the muscle which can be instigated even by a trivial trauma or sudden movement from rest to get something. What should you do ? I would suggest you the following for your sister. -First of all ask her to lay in the bed without any movements to get a full rest. Give her any analgesic if you have. Shift her to ER or a Hospital for : Actual physical examination by a Surgeon so that a proper clinical evaluation can be done to get a clinical diagnosis , to get a proper order for which investigations to be done and proper treatment. Investigations needed may be high resolution ultrasonography of the abdomen and abdominal wall .