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Cramping pelvic pain

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Cramping pain is a deep squeezing muscular pain that is usually caused by muscles of the digestive tract or the uterus contracting.

Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this

16 year experience in family medicine

How long it usually lasts:

Short-term (lasts days to weeks)

How common it is:

Very common

Body locations

Pelvis

Types of

Muscle cramps or spasms
Legs cramping
Stomach cramps
Cramping abdominal pain
Cramping in lower abdomen
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Is Symptom of

Miscarriage
Condition
Painful bladder syndrome
Allergy
Food-borne illness (food poisoning)
Condition
Gallstones
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Stomach flu (viral gastroenteritis)
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