All sorts of different studies are pointing to how lack of sleep damages brain cells. One recent study found that in mice 25% of certain brain cells died as a result of a prolonged lack of sleep. Other studies have found lower integrity white matter in the brain, possibly as a result of lack of sleep.
1 Food poisoning; food poisoning can also cause pain in the lower left abdomen. 2  Moreover, it can cause nausea, vomiting or diarrhea and fever. 3  Symptoms usually occur for 24-48 hours. 4  For some cases, need to be hospitalized.
Gas trapped in the bend of the colon lying near the spleen (splenic flexure) can cause pain in the left upper abdomen or in the left lower chest. Other symptoms and signs of the so called splenic flexure syndrome include: 1  Distension of the upper abdomen, which can be tender to touch or not.