Does it explain?

Hello there, I used to get tummy pain just under my rib cage on the left oddily enough and I always used to poke at it or rub it and ask my husband is that where the dodgy part of Pancreas is? :lol:

I also used to get a burning pain in my stomach at night in the same place and that's gone since I started insulin. There's a few things that have gone since I started insulin, but other new ones that have appeared :thumbdown:

Littleholls said:

For about six to eight mOnths prior to diagnosis of type 1, I suffered from a recurring abdominal pain, lower left, stabbing type of pain. Doc said it could be bowel related but never really got anywhere with it. Now, 6 months post diagnosis, the pain had gone! Coincidence, or was pain related to dm? If so, I wonder how?

Did anyone else suffer abdo pain related to diabetes?

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I too used to get cramping and pain at times in my lower left side for a few years before diagnosis. I went for an X-ray and stuff but they found nothing wrong. I just presumed it was IBS or something like that.

Since diagnosis and cutting down the carbs drastically I think I have only had a couple of instances of discomfort in that area in over 18 months.

Makes you wonder if some folks with IBS are really pre-diabetic instead as looking back on some issues I had in the couple of years before diagnosis I now experience in connection with my BG levels (such as eyesight and sinus issues). Since my finger prick test at diagnosis was 25 I think I may have been diabetic for some time prior to disgnosis!!

Regards
Angie