lower left abdominal and back pain

Hi, i have the same, it was diagnosed as diverticulitis after a colonoscopy 6 months ago. Hope you get sorted, awful pain xx

GO to a neurologist...my husband had the same thing and it was a cyst between his l4 and l5. they did surgery removed it and is doing great.

I have had mine for the past 13 to 14years, visited Dr xray,lab test, whole lot of drugs BT it wouldn't go.always in a serious pain every day and night, in fact it had affected evey part of me. Pls help

I have been suffering from this symptoms for a good number of years now. left lower abdominal pains that extend to my hip and causes nerves behind my thighs and numbness. Please someone should help me by telling me what this is. The doctors have done X-rays, taken blood samples to no avail. I am dying someone should help me. My phone number is ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** posting of private information such as name, phone number or email address is not allowed in order to protect your privacy*** Please read our Terms of Use

May be Roth Syndrome

Hi What you found out about it because I have the same problem

I have the exact symptoms! Rheumatology digonoized lower spine degeneration & recently the GP suspected hiatus hernia but last week I have had pain going down left leg as well & into hip & back. I also have some acid reflux problems ( hence hiatus hernia) & abdomen seems a bit swollen at site of pain. Please can you tell me if you also have the reflux problems ? As that would help when speaking to my doctor again!!

I have 1- bulging disc and arthritis and they scheduled me for a Epedrial Spinal Injection.

This sounds very much like ovulation pain. I had it for years. It usually got very bad for several days between periods.

Did you ever figure out what was going on with you?

I had this exact situation, and went back and forth between different specialists for a few years before they figured out what was going on. I already knew I had extremely bad IBS, and was subsequently diagnosed over the following decade with IBS-C, IBD, spastic colitis, diverticulitis... but then when they did all my GI tests, scopes, labs, etc... Nothing came back abnormal testing wise, except some polyps on my liver, which btw are found amongst about 65% of the population, so not a big thing. At this point they decided to try and focus more on the gynecological side of it. I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease, and had a extremely difficult case to treat as it was antibiotic-resistant. I had been tested for STI's the previous year when I found out my ex has cheated on me, and it's good I did because he gave me BOTH gonorrhea and chlamydia (what an amazing present, right?!)... So, I was on antibiotics for a year, and on bed rest, unable to work because the pain got to the point where I could hardly walk and all of the medications made me so sick that I couldn't do much but sleep and want to throw up most of the time anyway. Ultimately, I had to have exploratory surgery and they figured out after YEARS of tests and theories that I had extensive scar tissue grown around my pelvic organs from untreated PID (which is caused by untreated, but curable STI's - which if they had just tested me for sti's to begin with, instead of just all the GI tests knowing the pain was [at that point] incredibly difficult to distinguish between which organ is causing what pain)... Then I would have been far less set up for failure from the get. Unfortunately, by the time it got to that point, the infection has long done as much damage as all three of those fun STI's could do simultaneously. I had extensive scarring in my abdomen, on and around the GI and reproductive tissues, which whenever I had any type of a digestive attack (from one of the 230 digestive problems my body likes to collect lol) which causes pain, gas, and swelling all on their own, without the exasperating effect of adding what happens when that swelling applies pressure on all of the scar tissue, and organ pain. Basically, complete misery.

That was a long explanation, but it all does actually make sense. They have never been able to put an exact title on what's wrong with me. Not exactly. There seems to be a variety of corresponding, but individual problems that tend to exasperate one another, but still no actual complete diagnosis to explain everything. It has recently been expressed that I may have gastroparesis, as it seems to encompass the vast majority of my symptoms. I'm going to see a new doctor in a few weeks to investigate that potential.

I'm still on my journey, my very, very long and frustrating journey to find a solution - even a partial solution, or HELL even a metaphorical experimental solution would be an improvement. But you gotta keep trying, cause eventually, they'll figure out enough to get us all some relief. Lasting, knowledgeable, healthy and safe, blessed relief.