Severe constant stomach cramps and doctors at a complete loss.

have you had a course of antibiotics for this yet?

Your pain sounds like IBS which can cause the intolerances you mention and feels worse under stress and with your period.  The pain can vary in location and intensity and goes along with heartburn, constipation or diarrhoea or both.  You can get nausea as well.  Try avoiding alcohol and caffeine and try a food diary to identify any food triggers.  Eat small amounts  but often.  Other common triggers are gluten, dairy and gassy vegetables such as cabbage, Brussel sprouts and broccoli.  Onions and garlic can also cause problems.    It will take time to uncover any food reactions.  However, at least you have identified drinks that you are sensitive to.

If all your tests are negative, IBS can be diagnosed.  Has your doctor not mentioned IBS?.  You could always ask for a CT, endoscopy, colonoscopy celiac testing if these things have not been done.  It may reassure you.  You could also ask to see a dietician and try the Fodmap diet.

Hi alice35251

You should go back to your doc and request an ultrasound scan of your abdomen. Perhaps some placenta was left behind or you may have a uterine fibroid or ovarian cyst...go back and request a second opinion ..this is your entitlement under the Patients Charter if you are in the UK...if you are not in UK you are still entitled to a second opinion......best wishes..

This sounds so much like my teenage daughter's ongoing, life disabling, continuous symptoms for months. Cramping 1-2x per minute for 10seconds or 1 every 2 minutes for 20-40 minutes intensely, so intense, that she rolls in pain or stops breathing, underlaying lower abdominal constant pain anyway, middle and right iliac fossa. No common stool (parasites, bacteria), urine, blood test has revealed anything, ultrasound of uterus and ovary normal, once a luteal 2.1cm cyst left (even is in normal size range anyway), gone a month later hence cannot be the reason for ongoing 24/7 pain, MRI enterography: no malrotation, no obvious ulcer or Crohn, gastroscopy only mild gastritis, colonoscopy biopsies showed no celiac disease, normal sugar enzymes and normal IgA, IgE, IgG range (hence all food avoidance diets never ever worked for her, we tried a LOT), no abnormalties visually (like Crohn) or in biopsies, laparoscopy was done, adhesions (? as to why unknown) cut, appendix removed (normal), free pelvic liquid sucked away (which is said to be normal for females) and still horrendous cramping pain afterwards, after weeks of healing. No one would go on looking for autoimmune disease since 'so much was investigated already' and are put in for: 'your pain got an own dynamic, a neuropath, a wrong brain wiring like phantom pain', need to learn to live with pain (?!!!), try antidepressants, but there are still a lot of possibilities -rare though- possible. Just to show you, what we had done in desparation of disabling pain to no avail. In your case one could say, your uterus involution pain has become an own dynamic, a 'phantom pain'. ? That's the equivalent what we were told (a gastrointestinal infection pain got own dynamic). Or also 'some virus' is made responsible to cause havoc for years before settling, if ever settling. Some say 'Borrelia' infection could go bad on nerves. ?

IBS can be easily ruled out, if an image of MRI or CT imaging shows a sigmoid wall thickness less than 3mm. If more than 3mm it can be anything and needs further investigation. But less than 3mm is a 95% sensitivity that it is not IBS. IBS is often a wrong, too early 'easy' diagnose, and a parasite behind it, or food malabsorbtion or gastrointestinal other problems. It's just so often blamed like 'stress' when no obvious, quick, gross reason can be found and all rare possibilities were not considered.

Also nobody seems to be aware, how disabling sudden but regular cramping pain can be and we need a solution.

Have you also considered endometriosis? It needs MRI AND laparoscopy though for diagnose. Good luck, abdominal pain is a huge field.

One side note which startled me in :

"usual bladder bacteria....". ? The bladder, the urin in there should be sterile, no bacteria. Often e.coli (contamination from our colon) get there and cause a bladder infection. It is not rare to see, that also the very close to urin exit vagina has also contamination bacterial flora from the colon.

If you had a wrong vaginal flora, it would be good to get it treated, I would highly recommend 'infecting' the vagina with the correct lactobacillus (Doderlein) from the pharmacy. In Austria you can buy 'Döderlein med', which have to be stored in the fridge (otherwise they are dead and useless), vaginal capsules. I don't know if you can get them at your place. You can google how to get a normal vaginal flora easily back. If a wrong bacteria flora could cause intense huge abdominal cramping, is totally new to me. Usually women don't feel anything, sometimes notice 'pus' and bad smell or get candida infection (fungi) itchy much easier due to missing acid, low pH. The right lactobacillus flora helps preventing any such wrong infections as the vagina (in contrary to the bladder) is NOT sterile.

Good luck and please let me know if you found a reason, or anything that helped and if it is in months time.