mid back /abdominal pain

[wombmate]

I have been having back/stomach pain that starts very early morning, I have read others on this website who have had the same thing, it only comes after laying down for a few hours, it wakes me every morning before I've had a full nights sleep. I have had an endoscopy,MRI, several blood tests, had my liver, spleen and kidneys checked, been on GI meds, and have been told I have IBS, I understand that I do have IBS but I do not feel this back pain that radiates to the front has anything to do with IBS. It hurts when I take a deep breath and it hurts more when I lay on my right side. I have been to 4 different drs, mostly gastroenterologist but none of them seem to hear me say that I feel it is in my back, so I've not seen a dr specifically for back or arthritis type pain. I do also have fibromyalgia so when this pain began, I was afraid I was having a flare up. I have bought a new mattress because I thought maybe that was the problem but it did not help. Years ago I had x-rays on my back and was told I had arthritis. Could it be some form of rthritis? I am also wondering if anyone else has found the answer to their very similar pain.
I am 47 years old but most mornings I feel like I am 95, the pain does go away once I am up. Can anyone Please help.

[TelMac]

Hi,

As with many of the above posters I have been experiencing abdominal pain only occurring at night usually waking me up  betweem 1am and 3am It starts just below the ribs and spreads to the lower abdomen and through to the back. I have had these symptons for about 3 months.

My doctors presribed Omeprazole an acid suppressor which had little or no effect. As a result of an endoscopy today they have found a sliding hiateus hernia.

I now have to see my doctor to see how to treat it as apparently they rarely operate. Why, I'm not sure? If anybody knows that would help.

They have suggested that four things are likely to aggrevate the condition: alcohol, smoking and tea/coffee and being overweight : (

I rarely drink alcohol or smoke but do drink a fair amount of tea. I am also slightly overweight, could do with losing a stone so there's something at least I can work on.

If anybody has any helpful suggestions I'd appreciate it.

Thanks and Merry Christmas

Terry

[Beck52ln]

I am having this morning  lower abdominal pain also and I am glad to know that  I am not all alone. I have been to 4 doctors and have blood tests, colonoscopy, defecography,and ultrasound but they could not find the problem. My symptoms started last year from September to March but disappeared during summer (April to October of this year). Again starting the first week of November, the pain has come back. It started as a tingling pain right in the middle of my lower abdomen but sometimes it radiiates to both sides but most often to the right. If I lie on my left side, the pain sometimes disappear. If I urinate or .... . the pain is minimized or disappears.  It is troubling me because once the pain starts early in the morning (maybe 3 or 4PM), I cannot go back to my deep sleep. But once I get up , the pain is gone.
One of my doctors diagnosed me as having IBS. But none of these doctors told me why the problem in the morning occurs. I have been researching on IBS in the internet but there's nothing that says what happens in the early morning. Now that there are many of us having similarities in symptoms especially the morning pain which disappears upon getting up, I think they should include this  medical findings in the literatures of IBS.
I went back to my doctor again this November and I was given some medications to stop the pain and medicine that's suppose to normalize movement of my intestines but it seems the medicines are not working.There's still pain in the morning. Knowing that I am not alone alleviates my fear about this illness. It was nice to read your  comments and suggestions. Thank you all!

[VictoriaMeldrew]

My first post seems to have disappeared, so forgive me if it reappears and there's two!!I

I have been trawling the internet for info on these exact symptoms for my poor husband. GPs and ER have been worse than useless and you just get so fed up. But I just found this page which I thought was quite interesting about the kidneys. Please post if anyone tries these out and finds relief, so as to help the rest:):)

http://www.crawfordnaturalhealthcenter.com/the-kidneys-and-low-back-pain/

Thanks and all the best x

[VictoriaMeldrew]

Hi Tress.
Would you be able to tell me the name of the Liver cleanse pills you were given?
Thanks xx

[Rainypm]

Hi all,

I've been suffering from this type of morning back pain for close to 20 years.  Sometimes it's worse than other times (right now it's really bad), but I can't remember not having it.  I decided to start a message board on Yahoo groups so maybe we can have more of a discussion between people and come up with our own solution.  Please stop by if you want to help solve this!

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/morningpain/

[angie1977]

I have all the symptoms you have mentioned and I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Good Luck!