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Sharp belly pain that comes and goes for months

For the past few months I've been having all sorts of stomach pain. I've had my gallbladder tested and I also got an endoscopy that showed red patches and polyps in my stomach. I have IBS but the pain I'm having doesn't feel like my stomach. The pain is really sharp and in my lower right side. I don't think it's my appendix since the apin is long term. The pain comes and goes most days, It's not EVERY hour of the day. I also have had a rash on my legs and arms that resembles dermatomyositis. I've had trouble with losing weight, it seems any diet I'm on and even when I go to the gym everyday I'm still gaining weight. I constantly feel like I'm getting my period even when I'm not, I get horrible cramps. I also have very long and irregular cycles, between 40 and 50 days but I just started birth control to try and regulate and lessen my cramps. It's helping regulate my cycle but if anything it's making my cramps worse. I get really bad nausea and migraines too. I feel tired ALL the time and originally I thought it was because I had mono a year or two ago but I feel like it's been long enough to where I shouldn't still be fatigued from that. I also get really intense body aches and I tried going to the doctor about it but it was no use so I stopped bringing it up because I'm constantly being told "just normal aches and pains" but they don't feel normal at all. My mom had ovarian cancer and she had most of these symptoms when she was my age too. I'm 18 and she was 19, except hers went unnoticed for 2 years so it spread and she had to have a full hysterectomy.
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Personally I would see a gynaecologist and request they order an intra-vaginal ultrasound, which requires no medication, and is done just like a routine gyn exam, on a table with feet in the stirrups, and the tech uses a smooth plastic wand. (It is actually a far more pleasant exam than that g-d metal speculum the gyn dr uses.)

Not sure a family practice dr would be willing to order the test without the more expensive gyn referral first. My sister died from ovarian cancer so I have this test yearly.

You sound like a roommate I had in college who joked about her small abdominal bulge which she called her 'pooch' that she could not lose with exercise/diet.  She mentioned drinking vodka would make her pooch hurt.  Turned out she had a large benign cyst which finally sent her to a dr after it became the size of a grapefruit.
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