Mother (76) suffers from dementia and has been complaining of moderate to severe abdominal pain. Anyone know of a link?

MRI or CT scan done? I assume so with gastroenterologists involved. Are bowel movements normal?
If all of the above are in place there could still be things missed, though I cannot imagine what. How is her appetite?
There are such things as bowel spasms and you may want to look them up. There is no way to identify them and the tests are normal. Might be worth a try of bentyl to see if there is relief of pain with that medication.
If it is upper pain, are there any symptoms of GERD? And again, assuming gastric ulcers are ruled out.
She is a mystery. Wishing you good luck with finding the cause.

I found a thread from 2012 on this exact topic, believe it or not, with 40 comments from others!

https://www.agingcare.com/questions/know-if-pain-is-real-or-it-is-the-dementia-151538.htm

Hope you can read through it and find some sort of resolution to this terrible situation.

One other thought.........any chance she's constipated? Or falling and you're unaware of it?

Good luck!!

I'm sorry she's in that much pain. It must be frustrating not having found the cause. No, her belly pain would have no connection to dementia. She's gone thru a lot of testing but it sounds more like diverticulosis. I would think that would have been picked up. In the very final stages of AD, for example, the bodies organs would begin to shut down but I don't think that would cause this pain, either.