Having a lower back issue of the L4 or L5 can also make you feel pain in your left or right lower quadrants. A radiating groin strain can hurt down your thigh and groin but also radiate upwards towards the abdomen. A pelvic infection in women or ovulation or cysts on the ovaries can cause this as well. I'm a nurse, just throwing out issues I've had that have caused this. I've even had intervaginal ultrasounds and been like OMG u are touching exactly where it hurts but they say nothing is there! If can be frustrating! Keep bugging the snot outta your doctor or find one that will listen!

I have been seeing a pain management doc for a while now for my lower back. I have sever LLQ now and I can't tell if it's my back, hip or something else. It seems to be deep and generates from the front to back, any ideas? Does the pain you all speak of do this?

I started working out on treadmill 3 days into walking I started to have pain in left lower abdomen it feel like an open sore inside my body, just to rub my hand over the area is irritating. Can any on please help with if they have had same problem.

LLQ Pain with muscle spasms were I had surgery last year. They went through my stomach to take out my old fusion hardware and put new hardware in any ideas?

Hi Heather I know exactly how you feel I have the same problem. I've had by blood tests done, urine tests, ultra sound and X rays. The doctor discovered I had fibroids, but says that's has nothing to do with the pain I'm feeling. I've even had cortisone injections in my lower back. I'm taking anti spasmetic medication in the event I have ibs but the pain is just there. It doesn't go away. Only when I lay down it feels a bit better but it never goes. When I wake up in the morning it's the worst. It's so frustrating

I am against the insinuation in this article that all pain is due to dietary habits or exercise. I eat very well and run but still have crohns disease! It isn't something that can be controlled by diet unfortunately, it's something you have

I have been having this llq pain for about two years. I also have lower back pain. I have it every day. It's worse if I stretch and becomes so painful that I feel as if I'm going to black out and it takes my breath away. The doctor says it's just coming from my back but I don't feel like that's the issue.

I had lower left side pain for years. My GP said there was nothing wrong. I kept complaining. He said it was all in my head. I finally got to see a gynecologist after bugging for 2 years. I had severe endometriosis. I had a total hysterectomy at 31. I should have sued but he died of cancer 3 years after.

Heather, have you been checked for interstitial cystitis? A urologist can determine through a scope. Can cause same symptoms of urinary tract infection without an infection. I have it but it's not too bad with only an occasional flair ups now. Diet helps (look online) and tums can help as well as otc AZO or prescription for the symptoms (I think AZO is about 1/2 the strength of the prescription I receive). Maybe it's already been ruled out..or maybe this will help. God bless!!

I have lower left abdominal pain and if I press my hand down on the area the pain is shocking and the pain runs down my left leg into my toes, no idea what it is and really need to go to the doctors.