To think some amount of pain when hungry is not necessarily a problem?

I’ve had pain from hunger.

i don’t manage well with big gaps between meals. I start getting tired, difficulty concentrating, if it’s really bad my movement slows down, and yeah my stomach growls and churns and that’s a painful feeling.

i am disabled and have multiple things wrong with my body.

Stomach acid is produced in presence of food not in the absence of it. Hunger pangs are contraction of the stomach in response to raised ghrelin. If your mum were right, civilisation wouldn't have survived as all primitive people would die from stomach ulcers in their caves.

I’ve never felt pain from hunger, and commonly do intermittent fasting (naturally) and have done 24 hour fasts before.

A few hunger pangs that’s fine - actual
pain no! I’ve not experienced pain, hunger for me is more feeling light headed, lack of concentration and just really wanting to eat.

Feeling hunger is one thing. I’m hungry right now, but I know I’ll go home, go on a run and then eat something.

But feeling actual physical pain from hunger isn’t normal.

Why?

Hunger pangs are just peristalsis - it’s usually the cue for me to eat something. I don’t eat unless I feel hungry. It’s really not a symptom of anything IMO, just a sensation that you feel when your body is telling you it’s time to eat.
This only happens a couple of times a day for me with several hours in between. That’s different from the very uncomfortable gnawing sensation that can be associated with a stomach ulcer, if your Mum is feeling that she maybe needs to be checked out for an ulcer.

I think people just experience hunger differently. I get the aching pain, I often wake up with a hunger tummy ache and on a regular basis I can’t concentrate on anything else except how hungry I am. I’ve always been like that, my dad was the same. (Other than when I’ve had a severe tummy bug) I have never missed a meal in my life. I just can’t imagine what it’s like to forget to eat!

However I eat very healthily and I’m a healthy weight, have no health problems so I don’t think it’s a problem it’s just bloody inconvenient!

It depends on what a person's definition of pain is. There is a middle ground between discomfort and needing painkillers which people describe differently.

Stomach growling and discomfort, desperate to eat - all fine in the hour or so leading up to a meal.
Actual pain, not fine.

In my twenties I used to have actual pain if I let the stomach growling stage go on for more than half an hour. It was painful enough that I wouldn't actually want to eat any more, despite still being very hungry. I never found out what caused it, but it went away after a few years. Now I get normal growling and mild discomfort when hungry. There's a difference between these two, and I suggest that actual pain is not normal if only hungry for an hour or so.

I think it's good to feel hunger. Your body should have periods of hunger.

Pain? I don't think I have ever been in actual pain from hunger, is that considered normal?

I would consider anyone who is experiencing pain on a regular basis from not having enough food to be someone who is seriously lacking in money and resource, and who needed support in order to feed themselves properly.

I was always taught that you shouldn't get to the point of being ravenously hungry/stomach ache hungry but wasn't sure why that was.

Personally, I've found that if I get to that stage of hunger I am more likely to make unhealthier choices about what I eat.