Is this the start of another AP attack?

[Guest guest]

I was doing so well over the last few months that I was thinking the

worst was over

and I'd have a good summer coming up. Well, I was wrong !

Does anyone get a mild dull nagging pain under their ribcage before

having an Acute

attack? Last year I got this mild pain lasting for a few minutes at

a time which went

on over a couple of months. Eventually it turned into agonizing

pains shooting

through my ribs to my back shoulder area----I got that about once a

week. Then

two months after that it turned into a full fledge acute

attack---excruciating pain and bloated

abdomen and I was hospitalized for 8 days--NPO

Well---it's back----I had that mild nagging pain off and on all

this

past week and this morning I woke to pain radiating from my ribs to

my back

just like I did last

year. I'm hoping it's not a precurser for a major attack again. Are

these sypmtoms

the same as what anyone else experiences?