have pain in my left hand side underneath my ribcage

[shantee488]

I have a pain on my left hand side underneath my rib cage and i have been complaining to my doctor for a couple of years but they have done every single test imaginable and everything comes out normal...Well I just found out that it could be pancreatis and this could be fatal if you don't take care of it...a friend of mine passed away at the age of 32 years and had been complaining with the same thing all of us are complainging with this pain underneath our rib cage on the left hand side....I am going to stanford medical hospital next week because i was told by my friend that it's very hard for any scan or x-ray to detect so please have it checked and don't let the doctors tell you what you don't want to hear....


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[mwt44112123]

I am all too familiar with all these conditions and the pain they cause except for this new one. I just started with this left side pain under my rib cage last night and it is nothing like IBS which I do have where the pain in your stomach is so intolerable it brings tears and actually feels like contractions when in labor(which is exactly what it is:contractions). I also have a nonworking gallbladder shown froma recent HYDA SCAN where they inject something similar to a large fatty meal to see if you have an attack and those gallbladder attacks are not the same pain either where the pain starts in your right side and radiates up to your chest and feels like you're having a heart attack and shoots straight through your chest to your back in between your shoulder blades. I was told that removing gallbladder will not change the loose stools from the attack and the stomach pain because the gallbladder just collects the bile from fatty foods and as long as you don't change your diet and eliminate fatty foods you will still have the problem. I notice the attack every time I eat anything fried, fatty or off the grill I have a gallbladder attack but as long as I stay away from the fatty foods, my stomach is fine. I was also told that removing the gallbladder and eating fatty foods will make the diarhea worse and you will run to the bathroom immediately after eating.  I also have fibromyalgia and that pain is just a constant ache in the muscles and bones all over the body, nothing like this. I have had my appendix removed and that pain was a doubling over, stabbing pain in the right side. I also have polycystic ovary syndrome where my ovaries produce cysts which grow and rupture and that is a different pain altogether where the excrutiating pain starts in your abdomen and radiates to your chest pulling you down and through your back making you have to walk bent over and when the cyst bursts all pain goes away and feels like you had nothing and doctors can't find anything unless they know to check your ovaries and will see fluid there from a ruptured cyst. I was taken to ER many times for this and they could never find anything until an OB/GYN examined me in ER and found it. Now when I feel this same pain, I know what it is and the cyst can only be found through an ultrasound. I also have REFLUX and that pain is different than what I am feeling now. When I lie down it gets worse and feels like a stabbing pain under my ribs on the left side.

[lynnsteen]

I have the answers for all of you! Long story short...Doctors all thought I was crazy as well as my husband. I was sick in bed for three months with all the symtoms you have all described, then I found  the solution through a natural doctor who was wonderful! I call her my angel.

All you need is 2 things from the health food store:
A vitamin called- Acidophilus & Bifidus double stregth by Natural Factors (half hour before eating and a half hour after eating 3 times a day)
put orange juice in a shot glass with oil of oregano drops. (8 drops) Do this once a day...or if you can handle the taste put direcly under the tongue. And keep your meat to Chicken and Fish as much as you can.

My life is completly back to normal...FINALLY!!! Best of luck to all of you.