left abdominal pain, in the mid to lower left,discomfort also stretches around above my left hip.

Have you had any luck with treatment? I certainly can relate to your situation. Recently the dull stomach pain I have been living with for about 2yrs has become worse and the more I read about GERD the more convinced I am that it is the culprit. My fear is that I have let it go untreated for far to long and now I am facing advanced symptoms which include dull almost bruising type pain around my belly button, and I find myself pressing on it with my hand to relieve the pain. It is worse at night and accompanied by a hacking dry cough almost all he time. I have recently come down with a terrible case of laryngitis and not surpisingly, it to is a symptom of GERD. Lastly, I have trouble swallowing my siliva when clearing my throat but no trouble swallowing food. I have been to the doctor, had ct scans, upper G.I's, and physical examinations, all proved negative and it seems as though my pcp is more concerned with my bP and choseterol than my presenting problem. Anyway I thought you my have found a successful treament assuming we have similar symptoms  

I also have been having problems with left side pain.  No diagnosis yet, though.  I have pain just below my ribs on the left side, usually about 45 minutes after eating, although I have had it at other times too.  Sometimes it is dull, sometimes sharp enough that I can't stand up straight. It gets worse in the evening, and is sensitive to touch, so when it does hurt I have to lay on my right side. The doctors have tried laxatives, pills for nerve pain, nexium, protonix, pills for colon pain, ibuprofen, diet change, exercise,

I too have abdominal pain, and have had GERD in the past. My pain is only caused by lying on my left side, but once I've been lying down for about 20 minutes the pain gets strong (dull, but strong) and will last for about 10 minutes or so after I've moved away from the offending position. I get the pain on my side, but frankly if I'm sort of on my side (my stomach or back) it is irritating as well. I can't really palpate anything significant. I have had dysphagia (trouble swallowing) for years and can't swallow even a midsize gel-cap type pill. I chew everything extensively. I don't know if its a GI problem, so I'm just mentioning it. I am a serious athlete (runner etc) so thought it could be some type of muscle tear, but the pain is deep starting half-way between my hip girdle and my belly button and extending around my abdomen to the back of the same place, so it doesn't seem consistent with a muscle tear to me. I recently had a blood test and urine test. I had high urea (dr. said it might be that I was dehydrated when I took the test), high creatine, high billirubin and high ALT/SGPT serum level. This could indicate liver or kidney issues, but would this cause this type of pain?

The only symptom I've ever had is a very stiff spine and neck but thats probably unrelated.

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I've been getting muscle cramping in my left and right side of my abs at night as well, and but it gets better almost immediately when I stand up or if I'm sitting down. I also sometimes (independently) get inner hip pains that causes me to limp while walking.

I used www.visiblebody.com and worked out the muscle at the location of my cramps is the psoas muscle.

A weak, tight psoas muscle can cause pain when lying down, and also hip pains as well.

There's a few websites on how to stretch the psoas muscle (just do a search for "psoas stretch"), I'm going to try them out, but I thought I'll let you all know just in case it's the same cause.

http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/fitness/h_PainHipExt.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_2067121_stretch-psoas-muscle.html

are you constipated? if you are you might have diverticulitis ( pouches on outside of the colon, diverticula, become inflamed or infected. This digestive disorder has classic lower left quadrant pain symptoms (of the abdomen) if you have had your white blood cell levels tested, they should show and elevation (leukocytosis), which usually results in a diagnosis of diverticulitis. This disorder also causes fever sometimes but it sounds like you are just dealing with a dull constant pain (which scares the crap out of you). I know how you feel, i have been having lower right quadrant pain, and my doctor doesnt know what it is, but i have GERD, and chronic constipation. I am constantly worried about it. Hang in there, somtimes these are just freak symptoms that go away after a while, that is if your doctor really cannot find out what the problem is. Also, i would take some tests, like an x ray, and a barium enema can show if you have issues with your intestines. or an MRI, but those can be very expensive. Good luck

I'm 42 male guy; is been almost three days with dull pain in my lower left abdomen.  Started Friday night, when to see doctor Saturday afternoon and said that Is probably a diverticilosis or appendicitis so she give me an antibiotics and to keep using Advil's for pain relief as I was taking one or two every 6 hours. Until blood results come in the following next week.  Well by Monday morning I decided to go to ER, I was very worry that something will show up in my blood results or the CAT-Scan of my abdomen. Well turns out, nothing! they've found nothing everything normal.  My first reaction was smile on my face, but at the same time.  Where is my pain coming from, I can still feel it in the same spot towards my lower back. But the actual pin point is coming from my left side abdomen.  Well doctors answer was, well we didn't see anything serious on you.  We thought you might have a kidney stone issue or something else they say; I couldn't remember what that was, you how these doctors talk there medicine language.  But the point is any away.  Oh yes, they give a prescription called: Naproxen 500 mg., which is for swelling, inflammatory and pain relief.  Well again, two different doctors couldn't tell me what it is; my own doctor and ER doctors.  But the pain is still there, the more I worried about it, the more I guess what that would be, is not going away. It's funny if I stand up its much little bit better than seating down whether is a chair or a sofa or lying down too.

Folks I need to advise? Jesse

wow , im so glad i found this, Im a 25 male and ive had lower left abdomen pain for 2 weeks now. Ive gone through antibiotics no help and they even tested. I cant feel it all in the day untill night time. Havent noticed it with food since im eating and going to the bathroom just fine. Everything is normal but this. Whats goin on here???

I have had symptoms like this on and off since 2001. I have been on Nexium which helps the pain in my stomach. I have been on anti-spasmotics Levsin and Librax. The Librax usually get rid of that cramping pain. Doctors have run every test, scan and all come back normal. So when pain lasts days into weeks, here is what helps me.

 - Go gluten free: No bread products or as little as possible.

 - Reduce dairy: I only drink a glass of skim milk at the most.

 - Reduce beans: Beans can be difficult on the digestive tract.

 - Eat small meals throughout the day. Snack on fruit like apple sauce. Bananas upset my stomach. I also like mixed fruit from the can.

 - I like hard boiled eggs mixed with a little mayo. Never had a problem with this.

Hope this helps!