I have some weird thing happening lately and I was wondering if any of you have experienced it or have read about it on other threads. I call them "attacks". They start out as a pain in my lower stomach area and progress rapidly into an intense pain. Worse then the contractions from when I had my son. I have to go into the restroom when I have them. I am in so much pain that I break out into a sweat (so bad that I have to shower afterwards) and feel like I am going to get sick. It last about 20 minutes and the pain goes away. I brought it up to my doctor in February after my gall bladder was removed and he didn't say what it was or act too concerned about it. But, I have been having them a lot since my last fill.

You should call your band doc and PCP to make sure this isn't something more serious. No harm in calling and making an appointment to be seen. If it's that painful I wouldn't want to wait. Good luck and hope you feel better.

I actually had this happen last week.. first time ever, out of no where.

I woke up at 3am, and literally fainted twice from the intense pain in my lower abdomen, I broke out into sweats, went to the bathroom, then took a long bath.

The next morning, it was still there, and it came in contractions. I don't have kids, but mom was with me most of the day and she thought maybe it was 'false contractions'. It was like a pain of 5 constantly, then every 2 minutes it flared up to an 8-9 for 30 seconds. Repeat. I ended up going to the ER. They did ultrasounds, catscan, blood & urine tests. They said my white blood cells were through the roof.. but couldn't find infection.

The end result was, the doc said my colon had a thick lining, indicative of food poisoning. I don't know. The abdomen pain went away the next day, and then I had symptoms of a bladder infection. Drank a crap load of Water & cranberry juice for a week, went to a GP and he couldn't find anything (bladder or inside my lady parts) that were infected, despite my symptoms. I still have some of those symptoms, but I am guessing I knocked most of it out with water.

I guess my point is, they couldn't figure out my pain, but you need to go to the doc, they thought mine was originally appendicitus. If that is what you have, it is fatal!

Hmmm, sharp pain (like appendicitis) or dull pain, cold sweats and contractions like when you have bad diarrhoea? Since being banded, I've had a couple of bouts of terrible diarrhoea like cramps (without the diarrhoea) although they are associated with going to the toilet, its just normal. It seems to come on just before my period starts. The pain is quite honestly worse than labour, it brings on the shaking legs and cold sweats.

We've been unable to find a cause. My doc referred me back to my ob to check me out for endometriosis but nada, even though both my sisters suffer from it. Just one of those things.

Its just happened twice, and its probably just irritable bowel brought on by hormones.

Can you notice any pattern to it?

At first I thought it might be something I was eating but these last few times I hadn't even eaten yet when it happened. Since you mention it this most recent time was right before my period starting also. I will have to make notes and see if there is a pattern.