Tightness & Pain in Stomach

Does anyone know, what could cause a feeling of tightness in your stomach area, becoming painful whenever you move or agitate it?

Yesterday morning I woke up with this feeling, I thought it would go away after a day, but it still kept me up last night because I felt pain every time I rolled over or changed position, and it's the same now.

When I walk I have to try to hold my upper body completely still, slowly walking like an old man, lest I double over from the pain. I told my parents but they just yelled at me that I was making this up as an excuse to not go to a neighbor's house for a barbecue.

It almost feels like a muscular pain; trying to sit up from laying down, like doing a sit-up, is especially painful. But I haven't really done any exercise or lifted anything that I would think would cause this kind of pain.

 

Hey, thanks for that! (*hug*)

Unfortunately I don't know which of those things it could be. I really hope it's not one of the more severe things. :icon_eek:

I was hoping this would just go away, but it keeps coming back.

It kept me up a bit last night, but now in the last few hours it's gotten really bad, I don't even want to move, my stomach feels like a lead block, it hurts so much to sit up, and now the tightness is accompanied by nausea, dizziness, fatigue, and altered mental status.

The mental status is kinda similar to how I felt a few weeks ago when I went to the hospital, I feel kinda as if I were drunk, I'm kinda on a short fuse and snapping at people, and dropping cuss words with my family without even thinking, which I never would normally do. I'm not thinking clearly or normally. That time at the hospital they had diagnosed me with hyponatremia and hypokalemia, but I ate a lot today, I can't imagine that again being the cause for this.

It's my freakin birthday and spent half the day feeling like absolute crap laying in bed with freakin thunderstorms outside, not even willing to roll over because of this pain and tightness. :tears:

If I don't just drop dead at some point tonight, I think I'm going to have to go to a doctor, but does anyone have any idea what could be causing all this? How to stop this? :help:

 

Thanks, yeah I think I'm going to have to go see a doctor. I don't even know who though, since I don't actually have a doctor since I stopped seeing my pediatrician. I'm not going back to the emergency room again though. I wish this would just go away.

Now I can't even focus on my mental problems without being distracted by physical pains. I wonder whether all these physical ailments possibly be triggered by depression associated with my birthday.

Exactly one year ago, I and a bunch of fellow students flew to Moscow to study abroad for the summer, celebrating my 22nd birthday the very night we got there, just a few days after I graduated college, exciting things; it seemed like my life was just starting. What a difference a year makes, "celebrating" my 23rd birthday laying in bed sick and miserable after a year of wasting away in depression and anxiety, doing nothing, with no life and no direction.

 

Uh, the pain is kinda like right below where the chest ends and the stomach area starts, kinda sharp and deep. It hurts to laugh or move or anything.

This morning it's been really bad, I can't even move my neck to look down without feeling the pain deep inside, I've been stumbling around like a zombie trying to hold my upper body completely still.

 

Thanks, I think I have to find a doctor to go to.

It's worst in the morning when I wake up, I can hardly walk or sit up, then it subsides a bit later in the day, unless I agitate it with sharp movement or laughter.

Ugh getting old and falling apart, right now I'm at the dentist office, had to get my bleeding gums injected with anti-biotics lest I end up losing teeth, my mouth is bleeding and hurts like hell. :icon_sad:

 

Yeah I dunno, it doesn't seem to happen due to mood or anything.

It basically starts getting bad when I lay down to go to sleep, and when I wake up the next morning, just sitting up to get out of bed is brutal.

It subsides a bit during the day and I no longer feel it non-stop, and thus I start to think I'm getting better. However just turning my neck to look down at myself right now produces deep sharp pain and tightness in my ribcage area, which tells me there's still something going on.

 

Thanks for all the info and the advice, I really appreciate it. A lot to think about, I have no idea which of the things you mention could be causing this. Are you feeling better yet, or it sounds like you might still be working on resolving stomach issues too?


Anyway my mother made an appointment for me to go to a gastroenterologist tomorrow morning, I will let you all know how it goes.

 

Alright, so just to update, on Saturday morning I went to the gastroenterologist. I told my mother I was feeling better and not to make the appointment but she made it anyway. I still felt a little bit of tightness but it seemed to be slowly dissipating. But I went to the doctor....and it was kinda embarrassing to go to an gastroenterologist since it turned out not to be anything gastrointestinal. He just felt around on my stomach and told me I had sore muscle that had been strained or something. I always thought that it had felt like a muscular pain/tightness, but considering my lack of physical activity, I'm still not 100% sure what could have caused it, and I didn't think I had done anything that could have caused a sprained muscle (like lifting anything heavy). I still feel it pretty bad when I nod my head to look down. But it should eventually just go away on its own completely. Hopefully.