Lower left abdominal pain - IBS or ovary?

I've been dealing with minor Generalized Anxiety Disorder for the past few months. Recently in the past month I've been having what seems to be symptoms of IBS. Not 100% sure but it's most likely IBS.

One certain area seems to remain affected even when the rest of my stomach area is normal and calm, and that's my lower left area. At first I thought it was painful ovulation, but it seems to happen every day.

The pain is mild and sharp, nothing too bad, but just enough to be annoying. I only seem to notice the pain when I walk or stand. Sitting or lying down doesn't affect it. I sometimes feel it on the right side, even now as I sit typing I can feel it on the right side, but a majority of the time the pain is on the left.
I can feel it sometimes on the right or left side when I sit down, but mostly when I stand/walk, and sitting or lying down relieves the discomfort quite quickly.

I'm a 26 year old female, overweight but I've lost 60 pounds in the past year, but still need to lose more weight.
Could it be IBS or PCOS or ovarian cancer? It's hard for me to pinpoint where my ovaries would be and my colon would be.

I think I've felt this before in the past even before my anxiety, could anxiety be making it seem worse than it is? Other than the mild pain I have no other physical symptoms.

Post Edited (RachelAvila) : 7/14/2016 6:50:03 PM (GMT-6)

Hi RA and welcome!

Sorry you are having this annoying/uncomfortable issue. It can be confusing and frustrating since both anxiety symptoms and IBS issues tend to be through a diagnoses of elimination...in other words, if everything else has checked out...then only then is the definitive answer found. ;/

So if you have been given a clean bill of health through a physical, including your yearly pelvic and pap...then you can be pretty sure this could be IBS related.

The only other thing I can think of is a ligament in the abdominal, such as the inguinal....so you may want to make sure you have not had a strain in that area. (since you have pain when walking that is relieved with rest...)

For now, see our Resources at the top of the main forum page here for great self help material. The coping skills suggested there are very effective if practiced regularly.

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