Abdominal pain is not always the first choice for colonoscopy, if accompanied by a change in stool characteristics or black stools, etc., only consider the need for colonoscopy.
If a teenager has abdominal pain, normal stool frequency, stool character, color, etc., and does not first consider intestinal mucosal disease, colonoscopy is not a necessary test, and can first go to the hospital for a routine physical examination, and then determine the test method.
If you are middle-aged or elderly and have abdominal pain, even with increased stool frequency, thin stool or black stool, you need to be alert to intestinal pathology, and it is recommended that you have a colonoscopy.
There are many reasons for abdominal pain, you need to go to the hospital first, let the doctor do a routine examination of the abdomen, the initial diagnosis of the cause of the pain, and then choose the appropriate method of examination.