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few ideas on what the condition or problem is, PLZ?? MAYBE 45 minutes ago, a pain in my left stomach, but extremely close to the top of the hip began. Any thoughts on what is this? I tried looking up human anatomy, but I don't know what quite to look for correctly; in other words, I didn't understand it.

Answer 1

webmd.com has a very good symptom search where you select gender, region of the body, kind of pain etc.

I know my wife and a few other people in our area are experiencing this kind of pain and it's spreading from there into their kidneys.  Doc told my wife it's gastroenteritis (generic viral infection of the stomach and intestines)

Answer 2

For females, this could be something as inconsequential as ovulation or beginning of your period, or it could be something more serious. You would have to check with the dr to be certain.

Answer 3

Doctors often divide the belly into four quarters, called "quadrants": http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...

If I understand your description correctly, your pain seems to be in the left lower quadrant (medically short-formed as "LLQ).

Unfortunately, knowing the location really doesn't help narrow it down, since in that region are organs from at least 5 different systems: gut from the gastrointestinal system, kidney/ureter from the urinary system, many different muscles from the muscular system, hip bone from the skeletal system, and if you are female, ovary from the reproductive system.

Here is a slide show meant for emergency doctors in training: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/451220/Appro...

As you can see from slide 4, there are at least 10 different causes (trust me, there are more).  Moreover, the causes are very different depending on your age and gender (see slides 6, 7 and 8).

However, as you can also see from slide 3, abdominal pain is "hard to evaluate" and "hard to diagnose".  So instead of trusting total strangers here on Yahoo Answers, you really should go see a doctor -- after all, you get what you pay for (Yahoo Answers is free).

Good luck.