<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.Hello, I am experiencing abdominal pain below the naval area for 6 days now. The pain comes and go s throughout the day night, sometimes mild other times really severe to the point of hot sweats. I have been diagnosed with ibs and have been managing this for over a year now with various medications a change of diet. However this particular pain I am experiencing at the moment is not like any other I have had in the past, the way to describe it is a stabbing, sharp intense pain in the stomach which is sometimes relieved either by a passing of a stool or wind both of which have been normal. My stomach now feels bruised to touch. Please could you advise?  <response>: HI. All your history is suggestive of a severe infective pathology going on in the abdomen. This can be enterocolitis, lymph node mass, cancer, diverticulitis. IBS may not be present at all, there can be a specific reason.l Please get thoroughly investigated by endoscopies CT scan Diagnostic Laparoscopy and all other relevant tests. I think you need a Surgery and hence contact surgical gastroenterologist. 