Pancreatitis causes abdominal pain, especially upper abdominal pain. Both chronic pancreatitis and acute pancreatitis are causes of abdominal pain in women. Pancreatitis symptoms include upper abdominal pain that spreads to your back, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain that feels a bit better when you lean forward or curl up into a ball, oily stools and extra smelly poop, indigestion, tenderness in the abdomen and abdominal pain that gets worse after eating.
