Ladies: do these stomach aches sound normal? am i alone in this?
I said ladies only because women have different abdominal organs than men do and if another women has the same issue I do its more likely to be caused by the same thing but whoever has any info feel free to comment. Anyway, I'm 19 and I've never had really stomach cramps besides when I over ate on a lot of junk food and those are sharp cramps that come and go in waves. These particular cramps I'm talking about are different. They feel like something is seriously wrong. Now I'm not sure what could have caused this, but the only thing about my life that changed at the same time as the stomach aches started occuring was I changed from the birth control shot to the pill. I've tried lots of pill brands and nomatter which I try, I get stomach aches. I'm using Ovral now and I like it even though its high dose, but I'm not sure why I have these aches. Its in the very lowest part of the abdomen, I'm guessing more or less where the uterus is located. It feels almost like menstrual cramps, and sometimes its sharp pains, sometimes a dull but burning ache. I have many tattoos, piercings, and have had several kinds of dental work done aswell as major surgery so I guess I have a high tolerance for pain and I would describe this pain as severe. When it happens, I literally need to take an anti inflammatory which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, lie on the bed and wait till it goes away. I have no other symptoms that go along with this such as nausea, chills, fever, nothing besides the crippling burning aching sensation in my lower abdomen and I have no idea what's causing it. I've tried cutting out coffee, coca cola, anything I thought might contribute to the pain but nomatter what I do, it always comes back. Sometimes it wakes me up at night and I have no idea what the hell is going on. Now before everyone tells me to go see a doctor, please know that that's just, not an option for me. I don't have the time, money or means to go and without expensive tests like ultrasounds and all that jazz that costs extra, they won't know what the exact cause is anyway. All the doctor is gonna do is prescribe me expensive pain tablets which I can't afford to keep on buying all the time anyway. All I want to know is if anyone has experienced anything like this, if they saw a doctor and what the doctor said, and what they used to help if they didn't end up seing a doctor.