General abdominal pain worse after meals can have various causes, ranging in severity from 'worrying' to 'generally fatal'. Finding the true cause means ruling out or confirming each possibility – in other words, diagnosis.
Diagnosis is usually a complex process due to the sheer number of possible causes and related symptoms. In order to diagnose general abdominal pain worse after meals, we could:
Cause | Probability | Status |
---|---|---|
Stomach Cancer | 93% | Confirm |
Gastritis | 25% | Unlikely |
Mesenteric Ischemia | 4% | Ruled out |
Atrophic Gastritis | 2% | Ruled out |
Do you regularly experience general abdominal pain that is present before eating and becomes worse roughly 20 minutes to 3 hours after eating a meal?
Possible responses:
→ No / eating doesn't make it worse / don't know→ Rarely / a few times a year → Yes, it started less than 1 week ago → Yes, it started about 1 to 4 weeks ago → Yes, I've had it for 1 month or more |