Hello, I know there was a similar thread recently that turned out to be diverticulitis, but I was wondering if anyone has any other ideas what this could be?
It's an intermittent, recurrent lower left abdominal pain. It's been flaring up for a couple of years now - MO is that it comes in waves for an hour or two, a streak of pain every couple of minutes and then nothing until the next one. It might be five or six bursts over a couple of days, and then nothing at for weeks or months. I had an ultrasound last year which showed an ovarian cyst which had "resolved" three months later. Last scan in October 2019. Also had standard blood/urine etc tests (last this March). I have made another appointment to speak to a dr today.
The pain is so weird: almost burning or hot or acidic, and it comes in waves. Unpleasant enough to bring me up short, but not to double me over. Most weirdly, and this sounds deranged, sometimes it seems to start in my left instep a fraction of a second before I feel it in my abdomen. It's almost like the burn of heartburn - of acid slopping over the edges of something then being washed away, or being burnt from the inside! And then it subsides. Inbetween I'm fine and I've gone months at a time with no pain at all.
Does anyone have any ideas because it's slightly freaking me out today. Could it be multiple ovarian cysts, flaring up and "resolving" over time? Something kidney stone-ish? Diverticulitis? Something else? Thank you for reading my overlong post.