Excruciating stomach pain - what happened?

[FarangGirl]

I'm not sure what happened to me last night. I've had food poisoning before bit this felt different.
I has been out with friends. Id had 3 drinks so a little tipsy but not drunk. We were a large group and food was ordered to share: paella with seafood, tuna tartar, ceviche among them (these were the potentially dodgy ones). I ate a bit of most things (but less than a regular full meal altogether so I hadn't overeaten).
On the way home, my stomach started to hurt. I went up to lie in bed and it just seemed to get worse and worse. Paraceramol wasn't touching it so took a tramadol i had leftover from ages ago. Even with that I was curled up on the bathroom floor in agony with pain radiating from my stomach. I vomited a little and had some diarrhea but nothing compared to normal food poisoning or stomach flu where you can't move from the loo. It was just rhe excruciating pain even with a strong painkiller.
I was really close to asking dh to take me to hospital (although the thought of getting there was horrific at the point).
However, after a few hours (its about 2am at this point) the pain does start to subside, even going and allowing me to sleep at about 4.
And I've woken up this morning with no diarrhea, no pain, no vomiting. Just feeling a bit bleurgh from the hard night.
What the heck could have caused this? Was this a weird food poisoning??? Dh thinks i should go get checked given how severe it was but since I feel fine now, I don't think its necessary. But I am now terrified of this returning!

No, he just suggested waiting to see if it was a one-off and to come straight to hospital if it happens again. Given that they are VERY quick to treat here (at the private hospitals at least, especially if they know you have insurance), I'm not worried as you normally have to fight off excessive tests and interventions!

That's great OP, and glad to hear that you get good and quick service over there when able to go private.

An update and a question.

I had another night of terrible stomach pain over the weekend again. Not as insane as the previous time but still bad. I decided to go to hospital while I could still bear moving as I was scared it would go downhill.

So they gave me some pain relief, took bloods and did an ultrasound. RUled out gallstones and anything urgent and discharged home with suspected gatritis. I got home but was still in pain until about 7am (the pain had woken me about midnight).

I made an appointment with a different gastro, one recommended by some friends. She was very nice and thorough, went over everything with me. She said it was bit hard to diagnose given that once the episode is over, I feel OK.

However, what she raised was that one my white blood cells was raised. So I just got my blood test results and I have a count Eosinophil of 1.83. The Doctor wants to rule out parasitic infection of some kind so need to do a stool sample. But having googled it (mistake probably!), this number seems really high and I'm getting a bit worried by what it might suggest as I don't have any asthma, hayfever, eczema or allergies - nothing like that ever! The only symptom I have, however, is this periodic actue stomach pain. Other than that I think I'm fine!