Matt Kelly explains when stomach pain needs urgent care versus when it's likely a chronic condition like IBS. Sudden, sharp, high-intensity pain or worsening spasms warrant a trip to urgent care. Discomfort after eating often signals a non-acute digestive issue.
Inflammatory bowel problems. So IBS, for example, a common symptom is discomfort or pain after eating. Now we're gonna talk about why that might come up, but that's a really common— you do wanna know that if you have some sort of acute onset, sudden onset of pain, you have sharp pain that's not going away, high intensity pain, or even rhythmic spasming pain that's getting worse, you really should get that checked out. At urgent care or the emergency room potentially, or at least call your healthcare provider. But lower-level, mild to moderate pain could be a whole number of things. And so the next group of things we're going to talk about would include some of those things that you might be experiencing to create a non-acute, non-life-threatening, but chronic pain picture with your digestive system.
