Does UC really include stomach pain as a symptom ?

I just read 4 articles in a row that keep referring to stomach pain.

I have never had stomach pain have you ?

Maybe I am just not thinking clearly.

"The enlarged, sac like portion of the alimentary canal, one of the principal organs of digestion, located in vertebrates between the esophagus and the small intestine."

Nope the stomach is neither the small ( CD ) nor the large intestine ( UC ).

"Crohn's and colitis patients are plagued with constant anguish -- severe stomach pain"

I guess people generally are clueless about their organs and 'stomach' refers to everything below the heart and above the groin to them.

Yes, I had it. It is more of a 'referred pain', as called in medical field.

CD can affect the stomach itself, though. It's not just the small intestine -- it's the entire GI tract, mouth to anus.

I get/have severe pain most days. Especially when a flare is fairly severe. I notice that I'll get cramping and then it'll be accompanied with nausea and will relieve itself when I expel some gas or D. This is only when I'm flaring. I've read and discussed with my doctor the cause of the nausea and apparently that's usually related with the end of the colon (rectum). Thats my $.02

I never had any kind of pain at all, ever, even when I was at my worst.

extreme cramping and an acid stomach for me while flaring, the pain is real and debilitating at times,

I've never had stomach pain but remember every new doctor would ask about it as they did a hands-on-my-stomach check. The less informed docs gave me the impression they didn't think I had UC and tried to tell me to get OTC gas-relief meds until I told them about the massive bleeding.

My better informed GI's understood that not everyone with UC is the same and that lack of pain did not mean I had lesser symptoms. Yes I'm grateful that among the horrible UC symptoms (in the past for me now) pain was not one of them. But I sure had mental anguish by the boatload.

Sometimes I had strong stomach cramps when my colon was upset with certain foods (milk products for example) and wanted to get rid of everything as soon as possible. Bentyl helped with that but haven't needed it for a long time now.

When I was first diagnosed with UC, I could feel pain in all 3 sections of my colon, ascending, transverse and descending. Never had stomach pain. It was like I could feel the food moving through the entire colon.

Now, I get occasional twinges on the left (still have some inflammation there) but only get stomach pain/upset if I eat something very acidic or otherwise hard to digest.

Hmm, for quite awhile I was fortunate enough to never have pain anyway. Then I developed pressure/ache in my rectum. Then a constant dull throb in the left hip area. At the end (before colon removal) I would have horrible pain in my sigmoid and rectum.

For those not intimately familiar with UC or for those I didn't know too well, I would just say my stomach hurt. If I ever talked to my doctor, I would point out where it hurt (in the case of the left hip area ache) or refer specifically to my rectum. I can't say that I ever had actual stomach pain while diagnosed though.

Before being diagnosed with UC, I would have horrible pain in the left are of my stomach. As in, almost pass out, lie in bed level of pain. Sometimes I would throw up. I figured out finally that this only occurred with cheeses. This happened maybe five times. I stayed away from cheese (and dairy) for awhile then reintroduced it. Was fine then. I never figured that one out.

i get stomach pain, too, when i'm flaring bad. it's because my UC gives my stomach gastritis (that's always what my doctor tells me). my colon pain beats my stomach pain by 1000 miles though.

that's about when the popcorn hits me !

maybe if i'd at least wait till the movie starts before i polish off the WHOLE tub -

For the first few months I didn't have any pain; then I did start having pain. I would feel like there was a 20-pound weight laying in my sigmoid, with a terrible feeling of pressure in my lower abdomen. Other times I felt like barbed wire was moving through my colon. I also had a lot of lower back pain. I never had pain in my actual stomach, just abdominal pain.