On Wednesday evening, I started to have sharp pains on my left side, below my rib cage which progressed further down to near my left hip bone...they were just on and off pains. They continued through the night which made it nearly impossible to sleep and I woke up Thursday morning feeling pretty bad. I went to the bathroom around 14 times throughout the day and considering all the food that I had consumed were a few saltine crackers with raspberry jam it was mostly just blood. The pain has progressed to cover my entire lower abdomen. It is now 1:30am and for the last 7 hours any movement causes me severe pain. For example, when I move from the position of laying to sitting I feel like my insides are on fire and when I stand it hurts from my hips to my chest. So, I'm pretty much confined to my bed lying on my back. I feel absolutely miserable, but I don't know what to do? Has anyone experienced this? Do you think it's just going to get progressively worse? Is there anything I can do before resorting to calling my GI? He will only urge me to go to the ER and since the last time I saw him we had spoken about surgery being the next step...I'm a little more than frightened. 