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I used to run a lot,almost every day but when I completely stopped for an year and started again ever since then right when I started to run more than a quarter of a mile and would stop I would have the sharpest pain in my lower stomach. It felt like severe period cramps. This happened every single time I ran. 

There was about two or three times when I would sit and just crouch over and hold my stomach and cry until the pain went away. All the other times I would just crouch over and just breathe until the pain went away. It came to a point where I stopped running completely to avoid the pain. 

I did some research (yes I know I should have gone to the doctor if the pain was this severe but being a broke college student with no health insurance I did not.) and thought maybe it was because I wasn't drinking enough water so I would drink tons of water and then when I would run some days it would still hurt and some days it would not. So then I tried to cut out dairy that didn't work and then I tried to cut out junk food and that didn't work either. So I just decided to stop running. This was in April. I would run like once a month after that but very little to avoid the pain that might be coming. 

So in the summer I cut out running completely I would bike as my cardio. And now that I am back at school I decided to give running another try.Since running in August until this day today I have not experienced the same pain I did this time last year. 

And so my question here is has anyone ever experienced this type of pain I have felt after running? 
Another question I have is that I just want some thoughts on what you guys think may be the reason that I used to always have these intense period cramp-like lower abdominal pains after running and now I don't *knocks on wood
<bot>: has anyone ever consecutively experienced very intense lower abdominal pain after running?  if so, did you find out what it was causing this pain?