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Lower Abdominal Pain, Back Pain, Bloated, More Painful While Breathing. What Is The Reason?

Female, age 43, I have left lower abdominal pain for the past 3 weeks or so, comes every two to three days, a stabbing pain, increases when I breathe, more painful in the evening and feel bloated, feel like passing gas, can pass stool during the evening twice or thrice and feel like i have not emptied well. During this time, iv also been experience lower back pain, its much better, been exercising and stretching my back. Thanks
Mon, 28 Oct 2013
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Hello!

Thank you for the query.

Lower abdominal pain and back pain is usually caused by urinary tract infection. Especially if the symptoms are associated with frequent urinating, burning while urinating or fever.
Lower abdominal pain can be also caused by diverticulitis of sigmoid colon. This condition is almost always caused by chronic constipation so if you have them, this should be considered.
Other possible reasons like ovarian cyst, ovaries inflammation, inguinal hernia should be also checked.

I suggest you to visit your doctor and have urine analysis, blood work and abdominal ultrasound at first. Diverticulitis should be visible in the ultrasound as well and WBC will be elevated.
Both uti and diverticulitis should be treated with antibiotics.
You should also visit gynecologist and have transvaginal ultrasound done.

Hope this will help.
Regards.
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Lower Abdominal Pain, Back Pain, Bloated, More Painful While Breathing. What Is The Reason?

Hello! Thank you for the query. Lower abdominal pain and back pain is usually caused by urinary tract infection. Especially if the symptoms are associated with frequent urinating, burning while urinating or fever. Lower abdominal pain can be also caused by diverticulitis of sigmoid colon. This condition is almost always caused by chronic constipation so if you have them, this should be considered. Other possible reasons like ovarian cyst, ovaries inflammation, inguinal hernia should be also checked. I suggest you to visit your doctor and have urine analysis, blood work and abdominal ultrasound at first. Diverticulitis should be visible in the ultrasound as well and WBC will be elevated. Both uti and diverticulitis should be treated with antibiotics. You should also visit gynecologist and have transvaginal ultrasound done. Hope this will help. Regards.