To think I should go to minor injuries?

Can't rule out kidney stones without a scan op so still could be kidney stones, but also could be trapped wind - that can be agonising. You need to ask for an urgent appointment with the GP, though if you get a bad attack of pain again go to a&e while it's bad.

So many people telling Op to go to A&E for more tests. This is what her GP can do now the episode has resolved. A&E isn’t there to start tests and investigations, yes if someone attends in severe pain they may do a scan, but when an episode has resolved the right step is to ask GP for an urgent appointment and they will refer as appropriate. When I went in with acute pancreatitis once, I was shocked at the things people showed up at A&E for. I am guilty of not going when I should sometimes (and been told off for it by consultants) but people do need to use the most appropriate health care route. If you show up at A&E and say I was in a lot of pain but it’s resolved now but i’m worried what it could be, they are going to tell you to see your GP (after waiting hours).

I’d make an appointment with the GP and discuss what happened and they can make any referrals. When my gallstones first kicked off, I had an episode of excruciating pain for 5-6hrs. By the time I made it to out of hrs (it was a Sunday) it had eased off and they said maybe I had an ulcer (i was found to have lots of healed ulcers during my first endoscopy). It didn’t happen again for 5 months.

I never went to A&E, as I was in too much pain to drive there and at the time had no-one to take me or care for my then young DC overnight. But GP referred me for an ultrasound which showed I had multiple stones. I had my gallbladder out 5mths later, but then unfortunately that was just the start of my health issues as a stone had damaged my pancreatic duct which led to a pancreas disease and a major surgery.

I don’t think you need to do anything urgent now like A&E as it’s eased off, but make an appointment with the GP to talk it through. Could be a back pain issue, hard to tell from one episode but sounds similar to gallstone attack symptoms, and the timeline matches, of several hours then eases.

I... you're obviously worried about something happening and you don't know what it is.... Gp, 111 then go to A&E if not feeling any better or still worried.
No need to ask strangers... this is your life, you need to know.

And let us know.
Take care

I haven’t read the whole thread, so I don’t know if anyone else has suggested, but it could well be gallstones.

My gallstone pain was a bit like contractions, and it often coincided with trapped wind which caused shoulder pain. My pain was always worse in the evenings and subsided when I went to sleep. Until it didn’t, then the pain used to cause me to vomit.

My dr was brilliant. She said it didn’t sound like typical gallstone pain, but she sent me for an ultrasound to rule it out but that’s exactly what it was.

You are really in pain .. you should ask medical attention. Could be many , many things.. go and seek help.

Ulcer?

If it’s a kidney infection or stones, you need a&e. It’s not a minor injury or GP situation. You need scans and blood tests which can only be done at hospital. I got sepsis waiting for my GP to try various oral antibiotics.

Negative dip on urine sample doesn't rule out UTI. My last 2 have been negative on dip at GP but samples sent off and both times I needed a week of antibiotics (amoxicillin not the usual nitrofurantoin etc).

Definitely get yourself checked out, I hope you get sorted soon

You can get shoulder pain with an ectopic pregnancy, which can also come up neg on a test. I noticed you said you were TTC. I think it would be best to go to A&E and rule out anything more sinister, our urgent treatment centres are run by GP’s which is not great for things like this. Hope you are ok x

You posted a thread, OP. Some posters just live for making somebody else’s life unnecessarily miserable. Best ignored…

I think you should RTFT

I had pain like this to the point i thought i was even having a heart attack- turned out to be gall stones..

GP tomorrow morning.
If you are out walking the dog it is not an out of hours emergency.

Minor injuries is not appropriate. The clue is in the name...minor injuries. I once got told off for going there with an agonising and painful swollen arthritic knee. There was nothing they could do for me.
You should call your GP surgery or get advise from 111.

Rational response. 👏

Well over a week for me. It was a similar sort of pain to what you are describing.

I had horrible stomach and back pain, that also went up into my shoulder blade, when I had Gallstones.

From experience, when I've had kidney stones, I knew ALL about it. Like, cold sweat, vomiting, not able to tell you what my own name is, etc. I understand there's similar symptoms with gallstones.

Did they check with you that it wasn't back pain in itself? For example, can you make it feel a bit better by moving certain ways, etc.? Does it feel a bit like sciatica? If so, it could be a bit of disc touching a nerve (bulging/herniated - used to be called slipped - disc.) You can get a fair bit of referred pain from that. But, it wouldn't really move about your back from upper to lower, etc.

I'd say to persevere with 111, and to push if it's genuinely intolerable; and if you can't get on top of it, is there somewhere you can go (I know different areas have different facilities), where they might at least be able to assess whether it's muscular, for example - and you could get onto a physio for some relief.

Best of luck in getting to the bottom of it. Chronic, constant pain is miserable.

No one on here is going to be able to tell you what's going on, OP. With the symptoms you describe it could be anything from trapped wind to a heart attack. I think you should go to A&E and get checked out properly.

could it be gallstones?

I’m a Registered Nurse - get yourself to an A & E department asap. Please do not delay this may be something serious or it may not. But you can’t take chances.

That's certainly possible. Whenever I had anything endometriosis related flaring up I'd feel it under my shoulder blade too. A cyst is easy enough to diagnose but endometriosis is trickier.

Well said