Hey ppl, about a little more than a month ago I’ve developed a dull pain in my upper left quadrant (it is located below my bottom rib on my left side) and I’m suffering from it still now. Everything started one morning. The night before this I’ve had few beers with a friend of mine and we ate a little more than I usually do before I go to sleep. Well, everything was fine so I went to bed. The next morning these pains appeared but I didn’t pay so much attention thinking that they would go away. However, after one week of these constant pains plus a feeling like there is a swelling where the pains comes from, I understood that something is wrong. Besides these, I’ve also noticed that I have a feeling of being bloated after I ate something and a feeling of being incredibly full. Anyway, it doesn’t seem to be associate with my eating habits because now, after a little more than a month experiencing these pains, my appetite and my diet have not changed at all. The thing that changes is that with time, these dull aches expanded at times to cover some of the right upper quadrant below my ribs and in addition the left of my navel area too. Anyway, I seem to experience these pains completely random. At first I thought that they are disappearing when I’m going to the bathroom but later I’ve noticed that it doesn’t. now, I think that I seem to hurt when I stand for a longer period of time or whenever I’m holding in my hands something pretty heavy for a few minutes (like my one year old son). That is why, my opinion about this is that it can be related to muscles because when I’m lying down it doesn’t seem to hurt. Another thing I’ve noticed is that I never wake up in the morning with these pains, they only start when I’m walking a bit around and they can randomly appear.
I’ve searched a little bit over the internet and I’ve found horrible responses but I calmed down after I read one post. Anyway, I do know that I have a horrible diet but as I said, it doesn’t seem to be related to it. It comes randomly. As I said, the only thing is that if I lay straight flat on my back and lift my head it doesn’t seem to hurt me at all but if I stay in a crouched position these unpleasant pains in the area appear. There are little differences: from time to time I have a dull ache but other times I’m experiencing stabbing type of pain, like someone is stabbing me continuously with something. I’m very and very glad when I don’t have these pains but… now, approximately 6 or 7 weeks later after that night and I still have the ache and the stabbing, disturbing pain. Lately it doesn’t seem that the pains are getting worse but since then it doesn’t seem to pass a day without me to suffer from these pains for hours. Yeah, it happens when I don’t feel it but as I know, they don’t have to be there at all. There are some days when they are very worse but there are some “lucky” days when they are slightly noticed. I have few more options what is responsible for the pains: maybe it could be related to my colon, or it could be ulcer or perhaps the abdominal wall and as I mentioned above: muscle related pain.
Even if the pains are manageable (and they are many times because I can make them stop by going somewhere and lay down in a bed for few minutes while I’m feeling comfortable) but I consider that this isn’t normal as it goes like that for more than a month. About the lump (swelling area I’ve told you above) – I don’t know for sure if it’s indeed a lump or something abnormal because there IS a chance that I have it all my life and I didn’t noticed it but maybe it appeared along with the pain. I can feel the lump when pressing my bottom left rib but it can’t really be felt when simply try to massage that area. I perfectly understand that I should go and visit a doctor asap but I have few problems with my health insurance now. Everything is going to be fine after one month but one month I can’t go and visit it. That is why, I really and really hope that I would get some help here. Any kind of suggestions you can give me based on my symptoms would be awesome! I really hope that this is a flare up simply needs some more time to go away but I’m afraid that this could be something even more serious and life threatening. That is why, your advices and suggestions are so important to me. Thanks in advance for everything!