Pain is the main and most often the very first symptom of chronic pancreatitis (a pancreas inflammation).

Depending on in what part of a pancreas there is an inflammatory process, pain localization will depend.

* At process localization in the field of a pancreas head pain generally arises in a stomach, mainly on the right or on the right under edges. 
* If process is in gland body – pain will be to be localized only in a stomach.

* If the pancreas tail is affected, pain is felt under edges in the left side.

* At defeat at once all body painful feelings will be to be localized in the top part of a stomach and can gain surrounding character.

Attention!
Painful feelings are more often provoked by plentiful reception of fat food and arise in 3-4 hours after food, can disturb at night that sometimes results in diagnostic difficulties as stomach ulcer of a duodenum "behaves" in the same way. Nevertheless, unlike stomach ulcer at chronic pancreatitis of pain during starvation don't disturb in this connection patients consciously start eating less and often strongly grow thin on this background.

* For pain at chronic pancreatitis there is a daily recurrence. So in the morning pain almost doesn't disturb, appears or amplifies by a dinner and in the second half of day, and its maximum is the share of an evening.

* On character pain can be burning, pressing, holding apart, drilling, it usually amplifies in a prone position or at a trunk inclination forward. The relief to patients is given by the compelled situation at which the patient sits with bent in knees and the feet tightened to a stomach.

At a stomach palpation the doctor the expert can define ten points of skin morbidity that helps it to carry out diagnostics of chronic pancreatitis.