Is it possible to have near constant abdomen pain in roughly one spot for weeks on end?

Digestive health
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I've always suffered with IBS to some degree and it got significantly worse after a stressful time 3 years ago.

Symptoms worsened again after some fasting and bad diet about 6 weeks ago. Alongside the usual diarrhea and malabsorption etc. I now have a pretty much constant dull ache/low grade pain in the upper right quadrant of my abdomen. Probably 2 inches to the right of my belly button and an inch or 2 below my ribcage. It does seem to be less noticeable sometimes especially when I first wake up, but it does seem to be always there for the last 6 weeks or so. Passing gas seems to make it less severe but I can't really find any other patterns like bowel movement or eating that have a significant impact on the ache. I have had maybe 3 or 4 days that I couldn't actually notice it but there seemed to be no cause as to why. I also now will get a numbing ache on the left side that does come and go but I think it just masks the pain on my right side when it's happening.

I am going through this with my doctor and will submit a stool sample next week and I have done a little fodmap'ing but probably not enough to make much difference. What I'd really just like to know is if a constant ongoing pain like that is really possible with IBS as well as most of the literature mentions pains coming and going etc. It does have me quite anxious and I won't get answers from docs for a while at least.

Sorry for the long rant, I just wanted to try to get across how it is manifesting.

Thanks for any info/help!

Chip

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hi chip, i can’t tell if you’re male or female and how old you are. it matters because more women get ibs and especially over 30+. ibs can cause pain anywhere across the abdomen, across the stomach, past the ribs, and across both sides of the ribs across the bowel area. it can move around but can settle i think, don’t quote me on that though i could be wrong! if you are getting pain mostly on the right hand side, with nausea, vomiting, pain enough to stop you in your tracks then it’s possible it’s appendix type pain and that is very worrying! you need to ring an out of hours doctor’s service if you feel this is bad enough. it doesn’t sound pleasant but i am no expert!

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Hi Sam, thanks for the reply. I am a 25 year old male. As I said Im certain I have IBS or maybe even IBD, as it is something that has affected me for years.
The pain isn’t even really bad enough to call pain. More like discomfort/ache it’s just that its constant and in the same place that bothers me. I did notice some very slight discomfort in the same place over the last couple of years so I think it has ramped up in severity with my other symptoms 6 weeks ago.

Thanks for the reply!

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good luck getting a doctor’s appointment! i hope they sort this out for you at your doctor’s - sounds like they need to!

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hi, i wondered if you found any more information? im suffering the same as you too.
amy

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hi guest, the 1st thing that struck me was RIGHT hand side, not left. ask about appendicitis as it can rumble on for ages.