Adult abdominal pain

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I have had a dull pain in my abdomen all week. Thought it was my period at first but no joy there. It is getting more painful each day and covers the whole of the front abdomen area. Also have back ache. Any ideas anyone?

Fever? Gut acting up?

And when you say "front abdomen", do you mean above or below the belly button?

Is stomach sore to the touch?

No fever. Above and below the belly button and stomach is not sore to touch.

Weird. Have you tried the NHS Direct symptom thingie? It asks lots of questions and tells you what to do next ... this would worry me a bit, particularly given it's getting worse.

Are you TTC or is there any chance you could be pregnant? Any signs of a UTI or similar?

Have tried the NHS direct web thingy but don't have any other symptons (eg blood/tar in stools etc).

Not trying to conceive and am not pregnant. Think I will just have to give it to tomorrow and then ring the GP if no improvement.

What's a uti?

Any chance you've pulled an abdominal muscle? Have you done any new exercise?

No nothing pulled.

It just feels like period 'ache' without the period! Is this possible?

Well, generally not. If it's your uterus hurting, then I worry it might be an ectopic pregnancy or something (that pain's meant to be really bad though). If it's a muscle ache (which is what period pain is), I thought it might be exercise-induced. I'm a bit worried it might be something to do with your kidneys, but I'm assuming you'd have mentioned it, if you were pissing blood?

UTI = urinary tract infection. Aka cystitis. Big symptom is needing to pee all the time, and it hurting incredibly badly when you stop peeing.

No blood or any other symptons - yet!