It may depends when and how it hurts. there is a different pains - it can be anything or nothing - just gas. Glad you go to the doc.
i.e. my ulcer is just acting up again. - so I hurt - if I eat or drink anything, or when i do not drink or eat anything, The pain is different depends on what I ate - drunk, the temperature and the consistency of the food. But - having hernia, and GB issue - i know it is ulcer - or look - alike... And since I was - still I am recovering from upper resp. infection and took stuff for that - that probably aggravate the ulcer - so now - I need to take care of it... darn...
When yo go to the doc - make notes - how it hurts - where exactly hurts, does not food or drink make it worse - or better - how long after you eat it hurts - what did you eat - before you started hurting, does anything that you do (i.e.curling up, or breathing, or massaging that area, etc) makes it better or worse, etc. etc. When you have that - it may be easier for the doc to diagnose you without having to run more tests that you may need.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."