Severe Pain in left side..PLZ HELP! Im Desperate!!

[Carrie76]

I am at a loss here. ALL of the doctors think that I am crazy and I KNOW Im not!  For about the past 8 years I have had this recurring pain that is in my left side right up underneath my left rib cage. It radiates from my back into my front side area and there is no onset to it..it just seems to come and go. NOW..it happens just about every other day and when the pain is severe...if I lay flat on my back...my left side of my rib cage is raised up about 2 to 3 inches higher than my right side is.  Other times when the pain isnt that severe it doesnt swell at all. The only thing that I have found that kills the pain is aleve but recently I think that my kidneys have been damaged by me taking them. But the docs dont know whats wrong and they refuse to give me anything for pain because they dont want to mask the pain any...which I understand but they cant find anything and I am the one in all the pain!!! When it hits..it literally hurts to breathe..walking and standing intensifys it. They have done a complete blood work and CT and other tests and all has came back normal. All they say is that if it was something major that it would show up in a CT scan. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!! I want some help but the docs just think Im crazy and I am exaggerating. Im not!! I dont have any problems with my urine or bowels..they are normal. No naesea or vomiting..no indejestion...just the pain!  Does anyone have ANY ideas about this?? If you do PLZ message me back or you can write me at my email which ***@****  If anyone has had similar problems also..plz let me know!

Carrie

[SwanSong]

Try looking up something about floating rib or rib pain. I remember something from another website where there was a discussion about rib pain and it being related to floating rib or something similar.

[caringsoul]

Ironically, I had similar pain that started about 8 years ago as well.  At the time, I was seeing an inept doctor (not too much later I, my husband and parents all quit seeing this "quack" luckily... without going into detail, the change saved my mother's life!)  That doctor was stupid enough to say "there's nothing over there."  Well, there is...the spleen, kidney, stomach.  My pain, like yours, came and went over the next several years and I kept hoping it was nothing to really worry about, so ignored it.  A routine blood test recently showed that I am very aenemic and have lost over a quart of blood internally.  It was then that I admitted about my escalating pain in the stomach and to the left side and back.  I just went to see a gastroenterologist.  He, along with my doctor, sent me for more blood work/tests and urine test (just did that today).  He has me scheduled for an in-hospital encoscopy and colonoscopy procedure for the fact that I may need a blood transfusion and due to the fact that I've been on strong pain medicine including INSAIDS for 12 yrs and wouldn't be able to put me out without an anethesiologist.  He and my doctor also will be looking for signs of an enlarged spleen, which can cause those dull and sharp pains on the left side and severe aenemia  and will check my left kidney along with other kidney and liver.  I strongly suggest that you not give up until you find a doctor who will listen to you!  Our bodies don't hurt for no reason; they're trying to tell you something.  Did they do extensive blood work ups/urine test?  What about a sonagram and/or an MRI vs. just the CAT scan?  Don't give up or give in; something is wrong; find the doctor who finds out what!