Stomach and upper back pain

[Schaeffer65]

I'm stumped and health anxiety is not helping.

Late June I started with the first episode of stomach pain (anything I ate was giving me so much pain, gurgling noises, excess gas) and I had upper back pain for the first time in my life, but thought it was unrelated.

I have had 2 or 3 more of these episodes since, they last a few days. Last night I felt the indigestion/heartburn pain as I went to bed and today I'm very gassy and my back is killing.

I'm struggling to think of anything relatively benign it could be and I am so worried.

When it started DH felt really weird too and we were both kind of convinced it was Covid. But I've had a few flares since and dH has been fine.

I also had really painful hair follicles around the same time and my hair has been falling out loads since. This may be unrelated and just a red herring though.

Any ideas?

Gas causes upper back pain. You could've developed an intolerance to something that's causing the gas, keep a food diary

I have excess acid, which causes wind, fullness, stomach pain, acid reflux and sometimes back/jaw/face pain. I think it's referred pain or acid finding it's way into the wrong places . But, it's sort of similar to the symptoms of heart attack, and stomach ulcers can also give pain between the shoulder blades. So you need to see your GP but you probably don't need to worry. Really bad stomach pain going through to your back could be pancreatitis though.

Gall stones

Gallstones
I'm currently suffering with it

Gallstones wa also my first thought.

Thank you. I always thought gall stones were excruciatingly painful? Mine really isn't that painful but just very noticeable compared to not feeling any pain!

I can't really figure out the back pain. It sort of feels muscular but also diffuse enough that it feels like it's something else.