Chronic abdominal wall pain: frequently unrecognized or confused with visceral pain. There is another entity unconnected to the past trauma which is capable of producing similar pains is, a minor trauma which had been overlooked, on-going age related spondylitic changes causing spurs. Some of the aggravating factors could be, Thus, your trauma and the surgery that followed had the potential for adversely affecting the lower intercostal nerves.ДЄs your symptoms started about 2 years back (ie, 5 years following the trauma),is likely that another factor(of a more recent onset) has precipitated these episodes of pain.ДЇollowing any spinal trauma/spinal surgery, 'stabilization' of the area occurs- ie, healing of the soft tissues(ligaments,muscles etc) apart from bony union.This seems to have gone on satisfactorily in your case, as you were almost asymptomatic for nearly 5 years post-surgery. The twelfth (subcostal) thoracic is distributed to the abdominal wall below the umbilicus and groin. The 10th intercostal nerve terminates at the level of the umbilicus. The 7th intercostal nerve terminates at the level of the xyphoid process of the sternum. The trauma to your spine (T6-T12) was in the vicinity of the lower thoracic spinal nerves (which in turn give rise to the lower intercostal nerves). This past history certainly would lead one to first consider your symptoms as sequelae of this prior surgery and the trauma that lead to it. I note from your profile that you had undergone spinal fusion surgery (T6-T12) in 2003- details of the events leading to the surgery and details of the surgical procedure(approach,type of fixation etc) are unfortunately missing. Any thoughts as to what could be causing these infrequent, sharp, upper right, abdominal pains that feel like muscle cramps, last 10-30 seconds and are triggered by sneezing? I don't have medical coverage right now, so going to a doctor or hospital is not an option unless my life is in danger. In other words: large meal + big sneeze soon after = sharp abdominal pain. I have Googled these symptoms, and I am beginning to think that the painful sneezes occur after eating large meals. I sneezed a few hours later today (somewhat focusing on that area) and had no pain. Today's was the worst of them all, and it almost feels like a muscle cramp. I probably sneeze about twice a day, and these pains happen maybe once every 3-4 weeks, so they are infrequent. On all prior occasions, I have just remained still and waited for the pain to subside. In the past, these pains have lasted for around 10 seconds (have had them for at least 2 years). I stood up and bent over to try to ease the pain. Right away I felt a sharp, shooting pain in my upper right abdominal area that lasted for 20-30 seconds. I ate a fairly large meal today, and within 30 minutes, I sneezed.

Stomach hurts when i sneeze