Discomfort in lower abdomen

[Soper]

Hi I've been having a stressed feeling in lower abdomen and lower back pain I get it 2-3 a day but it doesn't last for long has anyone had this.

[Lifebalance]

Hello Soper,

I get this at times when waste is transitting along the transverse colon ( which runs along lower back right to left) and moves into the descending colon, on the left, ready for evacuation in the bowel. I often get nerve pain with it too.

At least yours doesn't last for too long, so I hope you cope and manage when it happens. I think it helps when we know what is going on inside!

Well wishes .....

[Soper in reply to Lifebalance]

Hi thank you for your reply can I ask did you have any test done ?Have made appointment with doctor

Best wishes

[Lifebalance in reply to Soper]

Hello again Soper,

I contracted IBS C after surgery 10 years ago. I found very little help with NHS GP. Professor Nick Read from this IBS Network answered an email I sent him explaining I had Hyperalgesia/Nerve Wind Up which was causing the burning nerve pain. Basically this is where the nerves keep firing even without a stimulus, and when you get a stimulus added like a bowel movement, the pain escalates. I also saw a private Consultant at The Pain Clinic in London, who told me I also had Myofascial Pain Syndrome relating to the lower left hand side of my body, where of course the colon and bowel is, so every time there is muscle movement/peristalsis/ evacuation I have pain.

Myofascial pain syndrome is a chronic pain disorder. In this condition, pressure on sensitive points in your muscles (trigger points) causes pain in the muscle and sometimes in seemingly unrelated parts of your body.

From this, I could determine where and how waste is moving through the colon, which triggers the Nerve Wind Up and Myofascial Pain.

Obviously talk to your GP, we are not all the same in this debilitating condition, but the common thing we all have is waste moving through our system, bowel movement and Pain!

Good luck with your appointment : )

[Luisa22]

Yes I do get discomfort in lower abdomen, over to the left very low down. It's not there all the time, but every so often I get it. Not pain, just a feeling like I have rocks inside me or something. Often passing wind eases it a bit. I am more likely to get that about 4 hours after dinner, usually about 9.30 to 10 at night. It doesn't usually last long, maybe an hour, then fades away.

I also get lower back pain low down in the sacro-iliac region. But I've had the back aches for 26 years which came on after some surgery I had in 1997. I got that well before I had IBS. As I get older the back aches more often but I use my body too much so it's partly my own fault.