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Hello and welcome,

So that I can advise, please tell me:

1. Where in your abdomen is the tight feeling - your upper right, lower right, upper left, lower left, by the navel or all over?

2. Is it tender if you push on your abdominal muscles or anywhere else?

3. Scale 0-10 (10 = XXXXXXX pain) - please rate.

4. Any diarrhea?

5. How long have you been training, and did you do anything different recently?

6. Does the tightness change with eating or not eating?

7. Does the tightness change with movement of your body in different positions?

8. Your age?

Awaiting the details to assist you further...

Thanks

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Brief Answer:
Questions

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,

So that I can advise, please tell me:

1. Where in your abdomen is the tight feeling - your upper right, lower right, upper left, lower left, by the navel or all over?

2. Is it tender if you push on your abdominal muscles or anywhere else?

3. Scale 0-10 (10 = XXXXXXX pain) - please rate.

4. Any diarrhea?

5. How long have you been training, and did you do anything different recently?

6. Does the tightness change with eating or not eating?

7. Does the tightness change with movement of your body in different positions?

8. Your age?

Awaiting the details to assist you further...

Thanks

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Hi XXXXXXX

Thanks for the additional information.

Here are my thoughts:
Given that you have been training recently, for 4 weeks, and have no other symptoms (nausea, fever, malaise), it can be a muscular strain. Usually that will hurt more with use of the specific muscles though.

Given that you have been taking an appetite suppressant, and the pain is by the naval which can be the 1st part of the small intestines, a site that can get irritated from too much stomach acid, it might be gastritis/duodenitis. But that typically changes with eating or not eating.

So there are two things that concern me: you rate the pain as 7/10 and said it hurts more with walking. That can go with muscle strain, but it can also go with an early appendicitis, which often causes worse pain when the person walks. Usually appendicitis has worsening pain, and nausea and low grade fever. But not always.

So - I think you should go in and be checked out in person as it isn't getting better. It is most likely a muscle strain, but I have to err on the side of caution here so I recommend you go in to be seen.

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Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX

Thanks for the additional information.

Here are my thoughts:
Given that you have been training recently, for 4 weeks, and have no other symptoms (nausea, fever, malaise), it can be a muscular strain. Usually that will hurt more with use of the specific muscles though.

Given that you have been taking an appetite suppressant, and the pain is by the naval which can be the 1st part of the small intestines, a site that can get irritated from too much stomach acid, it might be gastritis/duodenitis. But that typically changes with eating or not eating.

So there are two things that concern me: you rate the pain as 7/10 and said it hurts more with walking. That can go with muscle strain, but it can also go with an early appendicitis, which often causes worse pain when the person walks. Usually appendicitis has worsening pain, and nausea and low grade fever. But not always.

So - I think you should go in and be checked out in person as it isn't getting better. It is most likely a muscle strain, but I have to err on the side of caution here so I recommend you go in to be seen.

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