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After i eat fastfood & walk home from the fastfood, i try to walk a bit fast to get home and when i do walk i start to get a cramp on my leftside ?

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Dr. Richard Zimon answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

This is probably: GAS in your left upper colon where it CURVES under your spleen ( "SPLENIC FLEXURE SYNDROME) You essentially 'shake" your colon like a cocktail shaker and the gas RISES to the "highest level" of the large bowel the splenic curve in the left upper abdomen! X MARKS THE SPOT IN ILLUSTRATION! Hope this helps! Dr Z

Answered 4/18/2015

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