Ask an Expert: Lower left stomach ache

Digestive Disorders

Lower left stomach ache
09/17/2007

Question:

I`m a 32 year old male and have been having dull aches in my lower left side of my stomach. It comes and goes and lasts for a good while. I`ve been having this problem for about 3 to 4 weeks. I have only just experienced the pain, no other symtoms really that I`ve noticed.

Answer:

I would recommend you talk to your primary care health provider about the pain. Other questions I have for you - that they may also ask you are....

Did you have any recent trauma or injury to your abdomen in the last month?

Are you having any pain or problems urinating?

Is there anything that you do that makes the pain better or makes the pain worse? (for example, if you change your position is the pain better/worse/unchanged?

Also, if you have a bowel movement is the pain better/worse/not changed?)

Have you tried anything (pain medications) If so, did it help?

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Response by:

Julia Gore Thornton, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University