depression and abdominal pain related?

morant · Newbie Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 13

Do you think that depression and abdominal pain might be related? My 16 year old daughter suffers from chronic abdominal pain that are usually followed by appetite loss and fever, she recently has lose weight drastically and she is depressed it is so obvious to me but I don’t get it how I could help her. And I would really like to know are depression and abdominal pain related? Thanks.

reames · Newbie Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 17

I am not that young like your daughter but anyway I know that any kind of a pain that is frequent or chronic like in your daughter’s case may cause a depression. If you feel any pain for longer period of time it is more likely that at some point you will get depressed. And the best way to treat depression here is actually to find the cause of her abdominal pain and treat it on the right way. I am not sure but those symptoms you’ve described regarding your daughter’s abdominal pain might have something to do with some colon disease such as Chron’s condition or something like that. She might even get prescribed some antidepressants just to relieve those symptoms of depression and anxiety and also might try to take aspirin or ibuprofen to reduce her abdominal pain but it’s not likely to be enough for solving this problem. I am sure her depression is related to some physical health condition and she better run to her doc and find out what’s wrong with her so she could get proper treatment and proper medications for if not treated depression might become chronic also meaning increased frequency of depression relapse.

depression and abdominal pain related?

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