1.   Doctors now routinely use super-sensitive blood and urine tests to screen women suffering from any lower abdominal pain.

2.   During an ectopic pregnancy, the foetus damages or ruptures surrounding tissue as it grows, which causes abdominal pain.

3.   He was referred by his General Practitioner whom he had consulted after experiencing recurrent episodes of upper abdominal pain and severe indigestion.

4.   I had barely dropped off to sleep when I was suddenly awakened b sharp abdominal pains.

5.   Some of them lost weight, but mainly because their abdominal pain was so intense they did not want to eat.