My 16-year-old son woke up a year ago with a stomachache and a headache and has had both, nonstop ever since. He has been to GIs, had two endoscopies, a colonoscopy, a brain MRI, a CT scan of his appendix, numerous blood panels and stool samples to check for parasites. The tests showed some inflammation in his stomach, as well as his ilium. He has been tested for allergies, which all came back normal. No medication has helped his stomach pain or headache. He wakes up and goes to sleep with the pain, which spikes throughout the day. The doctors don't know what is wrong and so they are slapping the IBS label on him, with which I totally disagree. A healthy boy just doesn't wake up one morning with a stomachache and headache that lasts (so far) for this long. Next month, I'm taking him to a new doctor. Hopefully, the doctor will be proactive and help my son get better.

My abdominal pain starts in the morning and increases throughout day. Milk of Magnesia and anti-acid/anti-gas OTC liquids take the edge off during periods of hunger when stomach pain worsens. It feels like a burning and inner-writhing of spasms at its worst and strange noises can be heard within. I'm thinking that less food throughout day may result in less trauma at night trying to relax. It feels under pressure then and especially sensitive.

I had a complete colon resection and had half of my stomach removed from a very large tumor, about the size of a softball or even bigger. I was 30 years old now I'm 33 and I am starting to feel those same old systems again, at the time the docs found it they gave me six months then said they thought they got it all and said maybe I would make it. I have a wife of 4 yrs due with our child any day, I can't or won't go through this hell again I lost 90lbs the fist time. I just wish I would have stayed at home and let nature take its place these last 2 and a half yrs have been hell I'm now broke I lost every thing I had worked for, for 15 yrs on the same job.

I had severe abdominal pain just around and below navel that would begin and get worse for a few days, then start to lessen gradually. It left me incapacitated for a week at a time. I had 13 attacks over the course of two years at the age of 58. I had many, many tests with no answer. Finally, my gastroenterologist told me I had irritable bowel and would have to live with it. My answer was that something was causing it, and I was not going to live with it. I had no other symptoms. I finally discovered, on my own that the cause was aspartame. I had been consuming one or two diet cocoa's a day most days, didn't have any other diet food or drink. Have not had aspartame (or any other artificial sweetener) in 8 years, and have been pain free all that time.

I am 40years with a history of severe abdominal pains, as a result, I underwent three surgeries (closed colonoscopy) with no success. This has been going since 1996. Sometimes I feel as if I am constipated, bloated and my stomach will be distended, however, at the same time I will be having a running stomach. several medication have been prescribed which I feel they are not assisting at all because when the pains begins, just becomes worse which might last from one day to several days. Recently, I had another attack which was worse. According to my doctor after performing another colonoscopy, after many times, said the problem might be caused by the narrowing of the colon as a result of the three surgeries (scars which cannot heal). My concern is that before those surgeries, the pain was there, which presupposes that something is causing the pain. According to my doctor, he is very reluctant to perform the fourth surgery because it cannot guarantee less pain for me in future. Please, can anyone advise me what to do, any dietary plan to follow, etc, or is there any solution to manage my condition.

For more than 30 years my wife has had what she called "her belly button pain." She had a hernia repair around 20 years ago and thought it fixed the problem. About a month ago she had a test that was "inconclusive" for celiac disease. We went "gluten free" and since then she has had about 4-5 episodes--3 in the last 3 days. She is in such pain she throws up (with no nausea; only pain). I am in tears, feeling so helpless. Usually, after she throws up, she is able to fall asleep. What is this? She has been to a Gastroenterologist. She has had a colonoscopy, endoscopy, CT, X-ray and blood work. Everything is negative except the "inconclusive" for celiac disease. Since then, we have been trying to very carefully go in the gluten-free direction. I am scared it's cancer or something that has eaten away her intestines and I am going to lose her. Please help me. I'm so scared.