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What Causes Severe Lower Abdominal Pain That Lasts For A 15 Minutes?

For the past week I've been having severe lower abdominal pain which lasts for a fifteen minutes and then goes away. Everytime it comes back it is twice as worse. My whole abdomen region is tender when pressed on and I'm not due for my menstrual cycle for three weeks.what is this problem?
Sat, 19 Jul 2014
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HI THANKS FOR POSTING YOUR QUERY ON HEALTHCARE MAGIC.
YOUR PAIN ABDOMEN IS MORE LIKELY SUGGESTIVE OF "COLICKY NATURE".THIS COULD ARISE EITHER BECAUSE OF A GALL STONE OR RENAL STONE.BOTH CAN PRODUCE ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS .BOTH HAVE TO BE DIFFERENTIATED SINCE THE TREATMENT ASPECTS VARY.AN ULTRASOUND ABDOMEN WILL BE EXTREMELY HELPFUL IN DIFFERENTIATING THE TWO.GALL STONES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TREATED BY SURGERY AND CHOLECYSTECTOMY. KIDNEY STONES CAN BE TREATED BY "ESWL-EXTRA CORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY" OR BY "PCNL-PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITOMY".MEANWHILE YOUR PAIN CAN BE MANAGED BY TAB TRAMADOL. CONSULT AN EXPERT LAPROSCOPIC SURGEON FOR FURTHER MANAGEMENT.
THANK YOU.
TAKE CARE.
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What Causes Severe Lower Abdominal Pain That Lasts For A 15 Minutes?

HI THANKS FOR POSTING YOUR QUERY ON HEALTHCARE MAGIC. YOUR PAIN ABDOMEN IS MORE LIKELY SUGGESTIVE OF COLICKY NATURE .THIS COULD ARISE EITHER BECAUSE OF A GALL STONE OR RENAL STONE.BOTH CAN PRODUCE ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS .BOTH HAVE TO BE DIFFERENTIATED SINCE THE TREATMENT ASPECTS VARY.AN ULTRASOUND ABDOMEN WILL BE EXTREMELY HELPFUL IN DIFFERENTIATING THE TWO.GALL STONES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TREATED BY SURGERY AND CHOLECYSTECTOMY. KIDNEY STONES CAN BE TREATED BY ESWL-EXTRA CORPOREAL SHOCK WAVE LITHOTRIPSY OR BY PCNL-PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITOMY .MEANWHILE YOUR PAIN CAN BE MANAGED BY TAB TRAMADOL. CONSULT AN EXPERT LAPROSCOPIC SURGEON FOR FURTHER MANAGEMENT. THANK YOU. TAKE CARE.