During the past 7 or 8 months, I've been experiencing a very strange symptom - that is now occurring with more frequency. It is the most painful thing I've ever had to deal with. It comes on suddenly - no announcement. It begins with horrible pain in my upper stomach area just under the diaphram. The ribs under my breasts hurt like someone kicked the poop out of me and goes around to my back - right side. The back pain makes it hard to breathe. I used a heating pad and an electric massager on back. The back pain is over my ribs distally - not medially. It is just in one large spot. Nothing helps my stomach pain. It is not indigestion or reflux. I've tried milk, tums, pepto bismol, charcoal capsules, 7-up. Nothing helps. I just moan an try not to cry and get hysterical. I just had it happen the night before last. It doesn's seem to be caused by any food I've eaten - but one never knows with food allergies. However, the attack I had the night before last made me resolve that if this symptom continues, and no doctor can figure it out and do anything to help me - I'm outta here. I told my husband I'm going to buy a gun and blow my brains out. I at least think I discovered what the pain is coming from. I finally took a big handful of Wobenzym enzymes (supposed to be anti-inflammatory) and one of my husband's 800-mg Ibuprofen. In 20 minutes the amount of pain diminished about 80%. It was now at least tolerable. This appears to be some type of NERVE pain. It is on the same meridian around my body and is affecting the top of stomach and certain area of ribs. However, I don't know if the enzymes or Ibuprofen helped the pain to lessen - maybe working together they did (synergy??). I wonder if I had used it earlier, if it would have helped. In the past, I just suffer until it goes away. This time I suffered for more than 5 hours and this was the worst the pain has ever been. My husband has never been around when this happened to me before. Often it happens in the night and I then suffer and can't sleep all night. I don't want to wake my husband and bother him. I just go to the basement where he won't hear me scream and moan and beg God to kill me. This time he was home. He wanted to lay in bed with me and rub my back. I was very mean, but when I'm in horrible pain (such as childbirth) - I don't want anyone around me at all - let alone touching me. I told him to go away, not touch me or talk to me - just get the heck away from me. He had to leave to do something that had to be done that night. He was afraid to leave me, but I told him to go and not to worry, because unfortunately these attacks don't seem to be fatal - though I hope the next one will kill me so I don't ever have to experience this toture ever again. Boy, if you want to torture someone - use nerve pain, and they'll tell you anything you want to make the pain stop. I had horrible nerve pain when I was pregnant with my first child (at 26). It was in the leg - and the neurologist was confused why I had it. It ususally only happens with overweight woman that wear girdles and cause damage to nerve in that area of leg. I was kicked hard in that area of leg by my husband early during my pregnancy. My OB doc had injected cortisone injections (4 of them) into my leg thinking it was inflammation of the bone covering. It wasn't and he sent me to the neuro doc. My body completely ignored my left leg during my pregnancy. The injections the OB doc gave me left huge impressions in my leg. I could the end of my little finger into the craters. Once I delivered, my body began to recognize my leg again and healed my constant leg nerve pain. The craters disappeared - but I've had permanent nerve damage to that area of my leg. I could poke holes in that area and not feel it - but a feather touching the area is very painful. While I was pregnant, I had to use crutches to walk - but I continued working until I delivered. The nerve pain would get very bad at night when trying to sleep. I would scream and cry and tell my husband that I just had to have my leg cut off cause I couldnt' stand the pain. Went to ER several times - but they could not do anything because I was pregnant. Luckily the horrible pain only happened occassionally or I would never have made it thru that pregnancy. The pain was pretty bad all of the time - but sometimes it would just go haywire - like the inflammation would get out of control. This appears to be what is happening to my back and stomach. Just wondered if anyone else has horrible nerve inflammation come and go anywhere in their body.