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Suggest Treatment For Severe Pain And Abdominal Cramps While Treating IBS
Brief Answer:
Not likely to be colon cancer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
Colon cancer symptoms are generally more insidious with things like blood in the stools and significant (new) changes in bowel movements.
If you have had a colonoscopy in your 50s, and no abnormal polyps were found, you can be reassured that colon cancer is unlikely right now because it takes several years for it to form.
Pain on the right side of the abdomen can be from colon problems such as cramping/spasm from your IBS. If it is in the upper right part of the abdomen, it can be from gall bladder pain, and in the lower right it can be appendicitis.
If pain is severe and you have never had this type of pain from your IBS, then do go in to be seen and examined in person as this will help the doctor to know where the pain is coming from.
Not likely to be colon cancer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
Colon cancer symptoms are generally more insidious with things like blood in the stools and significant (new) changes in bowel movements.
If you have had a colonoscopy in your 50s, and no abnormal polyps were found, you can be reassured that colon cancer is unlikely right now because it takes several years for it to form.
Pain on the right side of the abdomen can be from colon problems such as cramping/spasm from your IBS. If it is in the upper right part of the abdomen, it can be from gall bladder pain, and in the lower right it can be appendicitis.
If pain is severe and you have never had this type of pain from your IBS, then do go in to be seen and examined in person as this will help the doctor to know where the pain is coming from.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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