Abdominal upper right quadrant pain, just below ribs

[Mark M.]

Hi,
I too have upper right quad pain just below my ribs. I am a male, 46yrs old 6ft and weigh 175 lbs. My pain comes and goes and has for about 6 months. It is not severe pain, but at times is more annoying than anything. It feels like there is something in there pinching me. I went to an internal med MD in July. He ran blood tests that all came back fine. He sent me to have an abdominal ultrasound which showed only "healthy" organs. No dilated bile duct, no gall stones, liver enzymes were in normal range. It is 4 months later and the pain is still happening. When I sit, or bend at the waist, I can feel the pain. It is not a deep, internal pain, but seems close to the surface, just to the right of that little cartlidge/bone that splits the rib cage...just to the right of the stomach. What the heck could it be? My MD put me on Nexium, thinking maybe it is peptic in nature, but 60 days of Nexium and still the pain persists. I am freaking out because my dad passed away this past March due to a rare appendix cancer (pseudomixoma peritonei) that several MD's could not find, nor diagnose properly once they found it, another story in itself...so you know how the paranoia sets in. I don't have a lot of faith in MD's right now. Anyone out there have any input? Can the liver be screwed up for this long and still avoid being detected? Can inflamation be detected by ultrasound? It feels like it's burning, not like heartburn, but a firey sensation...hard to describe. Someone, please help me settle my fly away brain...thanks.

[Percyfaith]

Been getting some good relief for my year long bout with undiagnosed Upper Right Quadrant Pain.
First thought to be gallstones then ulcer and now more muscular skeletal.  
Currently I am working on the later two possibilities.

For the Ulcer / Mucosal Lining help :
Supplements:
-Aloe King Aloe Vera -1 oz morning and evening
-New Chapter's  Supercritical Omega-7 (Sea Buckthorn) healing for all skin 2-4 per day
-Synergistics, Mucosa Max 1 at the beginning of each meal
-Grape Bitters 30 minutes before each meal
-Probiotic 30 minutes after each meal
-Wellness Resources GI Soother and Wellness Resources GI & Muscle Helper - taking these together once or twice a day I was also taking Wellness resources Sulfur Plus (MSM) supplement until I ran out.

-Clean Diet  -mostly vegetarian,with some Organic veggie juicing -potato and cabbage are supposed to really help ulcers but I mostly do parsley, celery and cucumber with a little carrot, beet and ginger.  

For the Muscular Skeletal help:
-The Egoscue Method  http://www.egoscue.com/  
Sessions and daily exercises designed for helping my alignment and support.
-Myofascial / Trigger Point massage therapy - massage sessions

Hope this helps someone else here.

[kkskully]

wow there are so many.i just realized i have a mass tender lump upper rib cage.pinching nerve in spine, abdomonal pain glands tender,ear and jaw pain infection.drs. dont want to do anything because they dont want the liability.nausia.mostly flairs with stress and strain.heavy lifting.allso my ankles hurt and bones.but DRs say i seem to be ok.i dont feel ok.it is hard to do things.i have always felt a sickness within.the lump is just noticed.i am sure this has something to do with this,just never had time to notice it

[misher71]

I have read about what ever else is going through and feel for all of you.  I have been dealing with this for over a year and half.  I have had CT scans (contrast and no contrast), xrays and thought I was going nuts as no one could figure out what was going on.  Thing just started to get worse and worse.  I finally decided to change doctors, thinking I might get some where.  He decided to redo my ct scan and said that I need to stay away from nuts, popcorn as I had pancreatitis and things were getting lodged which could cause some of the pain.   He finally decided to do more blood work which was of course all coming back good except for my triglycerides.  Well he decided to test me for Gluten intolerance and amazing enough I am.  This apparently can cause lot of issues with your stomach and your intestines with you have things that have gluten in them.  So now I am having to learn how to eat Gluten free which I will hopefully start tomorrow.   Well I did a little reading into my ct scan to what the doctors wrote.  Found on there Pleural Thickenign.  didnt know what this was but did alot of research and amazing what it says about abdominal pain, rib cage and chest pain, lumps can form etc.  So now we are doing another contrast CT scan in the next week for  mesothelioma and did a Echo gram last week.  I guess its a start somewhere.  I'm not sure if this will help any of you in a new direction or not but I felt that what I am having done to try to figure it out is a little different that what some people have talked about.  I hope this really helps someone or maybe a new direction in a blood test.

[michimoo69]

I to suffer from RUQ pain. I was hospitalized for back and abdominal pain 6 weeks ago and the docs said i had a blockage after doing ultrasounds, and abdominal xrays. Then after discussing with the about a previous kidney stone they sent me for catscans and changed my diagnosis as they found a kidney stone stuck in the ureter. However in the hospital after having the kidney stone taken care of I continued with severe pain. I explained to the docs and nurses that when I ate something was triggered. I immediately build up with gas under my rib cages and all around the front abdomin making me look 9 months pregnant. The pain radiates thru my back and to my spine. The pain gets so intense that it causes me to become nauseated and even vomit. The pain could not be controlled by any pain meds starting from morphine, to dilauted etc...Im not sure what to do anymore. I can be in a dead sleep and woken instantly by the burning and bloating pain. I do know the pain gets more severe if i lay down. I asked the docs for carafate thinking maybe i have an ulcer. I have been treating myself with the carafate and nothing has changed. Ive been back to the doctors and now they want to put me on prevacid. My problems only get worse because now i am pregnant so testing is limited. My biggest fears are small bowel obstruction as my uterus grows and pushes on the organs. My previous pregnancy i developed an internal hernia causing severe intestinal damage for me.. Where do i go from here?

[bob699]

I HAD MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED ALMOST TWENTY YEARS AGO. THAT IS WHEN MY PAIN STARTED. I HAVE HAD ALL TEST DONE,I HAD ERCP THREE TIMES EACH TIME MY PAIN GOT WORSE. I SUFERED FOR EIGHT YEARS  WITH SPHINCTER OF ODDI DYSFUNCTION.  I COULD ONLY EAT FAT FREE ICECREAM, CRACKERS AND MILK. AND ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO MY FAMILY DOCTOR PERSCRIBED DARVACET.  AND IT WORKED, I TOOK ONE OR TWO DARVACET ADAY AND A PROTON PUMP IHIBITOR-PRYOSEC  AND I FELT LIKE MY LIFE HAD BEEN SAVED. I COULD DRINK COFFEE EAT SPICY FOODS  I FELT LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AGAIN. IN NOVEMBER OF 2010   I FOUND OUT THAT DARVACET WAS BEEING PULLED FROM THE MARKET   , I ALLMOST CRIED.  MY PAIN CAME BACK WIHT A VENGENCE  , NOW I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN, AND FROM WHAT I HAVE FOUND OUT  THEY STILL DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT WORKS VERY WELL FOR SOD.  I TRIED CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS NO HELP, ANTISPASMATICS DON'T WORK. I READ ON THE NET THAT THEY STARTED  CLINICAL TESTING LAST YEAR AND IT WOULD LAST ABOUT THREE TO FIVE YEARS. SO IT COULD BE SEVERAL MORE YEARS BEFORE THEY EVEN HAVE A DRUG OR ANYTHING TO HELP US.  I AM GOING BACK TO A GASTRO DOCTOR TO SEE IF MABEY I COULD BENIFIT FROM BOTOX  OR MABEY ANOTHER ERCP. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.  I WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED IF I  FIND ANYTHING .

[jay350]

i have to have endoscopy thing and im very worried, i get all the pains and have had acid reflux and took ranitidine but my throat swelled up..not sure if its due to the drug or the stress of thinking i may have foodpipe cancer.. i went to the drs and said i thinki have gastro reflux desease or hernia and he dropped that C word in as well ..its been on my mind day and night now and i feal alot more worse than i did before i saw him as i went googling it.  
iv bought a ton of apples today to see if that helps as i here every where it suppose to