Bump.
Spent two days in hospital. Prodded and poked by 5 different doctors. Theories included inflamed lymph nodes, inflamed bowel and a hernia. Bloods (
CRP count was high), X ray and ultrasound taken. Apart from discounting kidney or gall bladder stones and establishing that there was a problem of
some sort, the tests proved inconclusive. Pain subsided after a few days; now just a twinge when I move in certain ways. The last Doctor said she suspects, but couldn't prove without a CT scan
1, that it's a very small hernia that the ultrasound didn't pick up and if the symptoms return then they'll do a CT scan. If that still doesn't show anything up then they'll consider exploratory surgery. Joy.
She said in 30% of cases who present abdominal pain the cause remains undiagnosed! They simply call it 'non-specific abdominal pain'. Well whatever the fuck it was I hope it doesn't happen again.
1) Which would have been "overkill", i.e. 'Are you dying? No? Good, because that's an expensive piece of kit to use'.