Lower left abdominal/side/back pain

Starting in January I’ve had this pain in my lower left side that radiates around my back and down my front pelvic area. I’ve had a transvaginal ultrasound showed nothing, blood and urine are clear, I have irregular very heavy with a lot of clotting menstruation. A few weeks ago I had laparoscopy looking for endometriosis nothing. My dr noted I have a very deep pelvis which is odd I’m only 5’1. I’ve had an endometrial biopsy come back clear. This pain was so intense in January I was unable to walk I missed over a months worth of work. When I massage my back where it hurts there is a hard “mass” I have no idea what it could be. The pain feels as if I’m walking around with a 10 ft sword protruding from my body and hitting it on everything. My obgyn is setting me under with a gastroenterologist we want to exhaust all other possibilities before removing my uterus and tubes hoping that will store the pain. I do have constipation recently started having mucous pass with my bowel movements when I’m able to pass them. Also, I started having pretty intense rectal pain during bowel movements even though they are seemingly soft. 

Has anyone else experienced this?

  • I've had 50% of your symptoms. I suggest you get the CT scan to include your left kidney. That's what mine was so it's  a thought you might consider.

  • Hi [@sankerit]‍ , what was your diagnosis, or what did they find if you don’t mind me asking?

  • Update: X-ray showed no kidney stones urine test was clear. CT Scan is in a few days. Grrrrr what’s going on 

  • I have EXACTLY your symptoms but mine is all on my right side - it makes me limp when i walk because the pain can be so intense - i get 'flare ups' of pain that lasts for weeks at a time then perhaps a few days of relief and when i'm lucky a couple of weeks but it's ALWAYS there,just in different intensities!    
    15 months ago i had a smear come back with mild dyskaryosis - my repeat last week came back with severe Dyskaryosis - i do wonder if this has something to do with my pain but i'm also seeing the doctor for intense back ache (had that for years)!  which he's finally referred me for a lower back MRI to see what (if anything) is going on in there.....    Everything feels linked to me !    I have ? unpredictable bowes - hard soft and explosive (with ridiculous amounts of gas)!  

    it's a scary journey !   Awaiting my referral appointment to follow up the smear results again - I'm going to request a total hysterectomy!    I am 44 with 3 children (18, and 9yr old twins)   so i don't need it any more - i really hope they will consider this as an option - but not sure how that would work!    

    I don't feel a mass when i massage my back but i am in constant pain with it - I totally get your desctiption of the sword!   It feels like it's going in from a specific part of my spine, through my hip and at a diagonal from my hip to my groin through my pelvis - and sometime s it's like there are ice picks coming off the sword in different directions and jabbing me at different points.........

    massive empathy - I hope we both get answers and appropriate treatments asap - it's so draining x

     

  • Just another thought - have you been checked for Sciatica?   your mass could be knotted muscles in that area - a herniated disc can also cause these symptoms (bowel, pelvic and sword pain) but wouldn't explain the heavy and clotted periods  - I'm not sure what age you are?   I'm 44 and have the same x

  • Hello! I have very similar, my mum was massaging my back and noticed a swollen patch on my back where I am in extreme pain.  I feel like it has been a runaround with the NHS.

    Did you ever resolve your issue? 

     

    Thanks!

  • My pain is lower left near kidneys. I have recently had a run of blood work but nothing has come back positive except for my IGM being high and H Pylori positive. 

  • I have exactly same symptoms and haven't been to a doctor yet

  • It's been a long time and a difficult journey since my last post in March. The CT  scan showed a kidney mass (which x-ray didn't spot). It turned out to be an agressive high grade 3 carcinoma which necessitated the kidney remmoval. That was a success but abdominal complications meant that I had to spend extra nine days in hospital. Aftercare  (chemotherapy) lasted 3 months and was a real chore. Now happily, all is over and I feel fine. Bladder cystoscopy is usual in these cases and mine showed a couple of cancer precursors but NOT cancer. They were removed and I now follow a three month check-up routine.

    My advice is.......Do not take "no"  for an answer when suffering these kinds of pains - force the doctor to arrange a CT scan. You have nothing to lose and, as in my case, a life to win!

  • Hi. Did you have bloods etc taken that had come back negative before this was found?

    I've had pelvic pain now for over 4.5 years. I've had ultra sound, x-ray, mri, a laprosoptony and full bloods. I've had a local anaesthetic injection today and the pain is still there. I've had gabapentin for months with no pain relief. I'm at a total loss and so is the doctors but I have to keep going cause I'm in agony. Standing in a queue is like torture ...that's when it hurts the most. Nothing takes the pain away but some days are better than others. I did find that it peaked when I was about to have a period but I now have a marina coil so I have no idea when I would menstuate. Been told the gyni wise I'm healthy??? I am only 32 so don't want to feel I can't even queue for an ice cream :'(