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What Causes Lower Right Abdominal Cramps With Stomach Distention?
Question: I'm a 42 year old woman who had gastric sleeve 7 months ago. I have been have cold hands and feet been extremely tired and the worse is the gas bloating stomach distention and lower right stomach pain. I had blood work done and my Dr. says I just have a vitamin D deficiency but it seems like more than that...any idea what it possibly can be so that I can suggest Dr. to test for?
Blood work results that wasn't in normal range:
HCT 37.9
MCV 79.8
MCH 25.7
WBCx10^3 4.4
VIT D 25OH 19
Brief Answer:
Detailed below.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for the query.
Before I will answer your questions, I want you to give some more details:
1. Do you have any diarrhea, constipation, blood in stool, mucus in stool.
2. Any abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting
3. Since when is the pain present
4. Do you prefer warm or cold environment
5. Is your skin dry, any hair loss
6. When have you seen your gynecologist and when was your last transvaginal ultrasound
7. Do you have regular periods
8. Any burning while urinating, frequent urinating, blood in urine, groin pain
9. Given blood work result is not complete, what is your hemoglobin level.
10. Was there thyroid tested
I`m looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
I feel like I'm constipated but when I have a bm its not hard. I have occasional lower right abdominal cramps but it comes and go...no certain time but I notice when I eat or drink and at night mostly. I prefer the environment to be cold. I have very dry skin and yes hair loss is present. I seen my gyn in August of last year. I have regular periods. No burning while urinating but I do notice the lower right pain sometimes after I finish urination.
VIT B12 316
FREE T4 1.31
TSH 0.56
WBCx10^3 4.4
RBCx10^6 4.75
HGB 12.2
HCT 37.9
MCV 79.8
MCH 25.7
MCHC 32.2
RDW 15.0
PLTx10^3 328
MPV 10.0
RDWSD 42.9
GRAN MAT % 45.5 %
LYMPH% 43.6 %
MONO% 7.5 %
EOS% 2.7 %
BASO% 0.5 %
GRAN#x10^3 2.00
LYMP#x10^3 1.9
MONO#x10^3 0.3
EOS#x10^3 0.1
BASO#x10^3 0.0
IMM GRAN % 0.2 %
IMMGRAN#X10^3 0.0
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
Lower right abdominal cramps can indicate some partial bowels obstruction due to adhesions or other issue. It is very characteristic that such cramps come and go as intestine tries to force the obstruction.
Urinary tract infection and right ovary cyst needs to be ruled out as well.
Please ask your doctor to have:
- abdominal X-ray and abdominal ultrasound
- stool test
- urine analysis
If this tests, wont give any answers or there will be blood in stool, colonoscopy and abdominal CT with oral contrast (enteroclysis) should be done.
You should also consult gynecologist and have transvaginal ultrasound.
Hope this will help.
Regards.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Is this something common with the gastric sleeve procedure?
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
Lower right abdominal pain is not related to the stomach surgery. So it seems to be something else.
However every surgery causes adhesions. Some people dont have any symptoms from adhesions, others can have obstruction. It is individual.
Such symptoms are not common after gastric sleeve procedure.
Regards.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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