Pain in right side under rib

[Ellen]

I have been having pain in my right side, middle chest area and it radiates to my left and middle of my back.  This has been going on for a year or better.  I have had so many tests.  I have Mitral Valve Prolapse also, I have been to the hospital on two occasions because of chest pain.  I have been diagnosed with diverticulitis also.  But this pain will not cease and desist.  I just recently had an EGD and a Gall Bladder scan. The EGD was normal and when they called on the Gall Bladder scan, they referred to it as basically normal.  I would like to know how precise the scan is in detecting abnormalities in the Gall Bladder and if there is an additional test that can be done to determine if the pain that I am experiencing is due to a bad Gall Bladder.  I cannot in my logical mind just say, "Okay the test prove nothing so there is nothing wrong."  There is pain and severe at most times, where it radiates across my chest to the left and the middle of my back.  I just want to know what is wrong and have it taken care of.  Is that so much to ask.  Any help would be appreciated at this time.

Thank you.

~Ellen~

[Tracie]

This is my last posting to this site.  I did want to let you know my outcome.  They took my gallbladder out yesterday.  It had adhesions to other organs in my abdomen.  Everytime I ate it hurt and pulled like mad and stayed irritated all the time.  I am just trusting God that I won't continue to suffer like some of you are.  My heart goes out to you!  It is so discouraging!  When I walked or stretched or things like that I could feel this pulling inside.  They told me activity shouldn't affect the way I felt, but it did.  I am up running around now one day after surgery and feeling better already.

May God touch each and every one of you with His healing hand.

[kris [email protected]]

I recently was diagnosed with Diverticulosis
and IBS. I have had a pain under my lower right
rib cage and around my lower right ovary area.
The pain is further complicated due to a
pinched disk in my lower back found when I was
admitted to the hospital for four days of tests
recurrence of these problems has gone on for
one year last october and finally got to the
point I couldn't handle anymore. I also had a  
Colonoscopy-camera inserted up to see inside of
intestines and was diagnosed with the
Diverticulosis. I currently still have the
problems of constipation and then the attacks
of the Diver. It has been a nightmare that no
one seems to be able to understand. i still do
not understand why my intestine paines are on
the right side vs the left. I also had tests
for my liver, gall bladder etc etc-they are
normal. I am on medication twice a day at
present, very high fiber diet, exercise for my  
back one hr a day and walk 30mins which is two
miles each day. I cannot sit for more than 20 r
30 mins at a time due to my back and haveto
wear tennis shoes all the time. If my back is
bad it starts the stomach problems, if my
stomach acts up-my back goes which also effects
my right knee, ankle and foot due to the siatic
nerve. I am 50 I have had to resign three jobs
due to the events of this past year. I cannot
sit at a desk, work a computer etc. Good luck
to all of you-Please advise if my pains on
right are shared by anyone vs the normal left
side with these problems. Is this unusual?

[Jane]

Hi Suzanne,  Sorry to hear you have to go into the hospital, but I hope they are able to make everything right for you. Good luck.  Am I understanding correctly that you have been diagnosed with sphincter of oddi dysfunction ?  What have your symptoms been and how long have you been suffering from this ?  
My primary doctor (I have that awful kind of insurance where I need to ask her for permission every time I want to go see someone else) says she has nothing else to offer me but the shot of lanacane in my ribs.  She says I've had the best people look at me and they cannot find anything to be causing the URQ pain.
I have been on Celebrex for 7 days now, with not much relief.
Write me back here or you can mail privately to me at champagne.***@****.  Thanks, Jane

[Elizabeth]

Dear Angela,
      Don't ever feel like you're going crazy. Your pain is real! I doubted myself after being in the hospital for 5 days with pancreatitis after an ERCP. It is an awful feeling to doubt yourself. Don't give up looking for an answer! Switch MD's if you have to. I did and I am so glad!!!
      Take care,
Elizabeth

[Suzanne]

HI
                 Courtney
They are not sceptical but rather worried doing the 3rd proccedure via an ECRP, as there is a great risk that they will pierce the douremum, this is potentially life threating. there is also a chance that they will do this during the menometry. apparently they give me a odds on bet, 50/50 that this will happen during any of the proccedures. Also that this will solve my problem

The contridictions of the opiods are the side effects, and the things that you cannot mix,here in Australia we have access to a book called MIMS which lists all the drugs avalible on the market here and their potential side effects. Reading up on all the drugs that I am on has just scared the DOO DOO out of me.

The pain for me is like a clamp that is fixed on my body from my right side rib cage to my back,it some times feels like it will hurt to breath, sort of like when you have run a lot, but it does not.On its bad days,it feels like some one is squeezing tighter and tighter, on its good days it is a nagging ache.
I have, since being out of hospital tried to cope with out the opioids but that has not been successful , so I am on the patches all the time.

My Gall Bladder was removed 3 years ago, your doctor is right when you have an attack of BILLIARY COLIC, the pain will be so intence and unlike any thing that you have ever suffered before.You will belive that you are having a heart attack trust me on this one.

The joy of all of this is if they slip I will be in Hospital for 6 weeks rather than overnight, so in there for Christmas, which I suppose is not a bad thing as I will atleast be in
airconditioning, as it gets real hot over here in December.
                 Jane
Tell your doctor he is talking through his nose.
Since june of this year I have not once thrown up because of this dysfunction, rather from the opiods that I have been given for the pain.My Gastro at first did not belive that I had SOD as my liver function tests were as close to perfect as can be. But I think that he has changed his tune now. The thing of feeling full after a few bites of food, gee I wonder how I got up to 80kgs in hospital if all I could have was a few bites of food.
I have been through the shot in the area and it was a local anasetic, did not work for me. also tried a test to see if the pain was nerve pain, where they give you 3 injections, in no particular order one is saline, one is fentonal, the other I forget. to see if there is any change in the pain. Well I Flunked that one too.
The only way that the dysfunction can be totalt rules out is when a memnometry is done.
I wish you luck.

             Pat
You sound a lot like what I have gone through,good god if your sphinter had closed off then you are really a candidate for SOD
has you Gastro performed any sphinterotimies? (where the duct is nicked) if not why not.
Stress has not a drop in the Pacific to do with it. If it is SOD there are no triggers, not food , not stress, not sex, not anything. Tell your doctor to wake up smell the short black, then drink it.
Has the irritable bowl been dragged out yet, that is always a good convenient answer to any unexplainable pain.
Do not belive every thing that you are told, ask them to justify their diagnosis. Watch them stammer and stutter.
        Keep on trying
take care everyone

Suzanne

[Angela Gilfour]

My pain is in the right side under the rib cage around to the back.  It sometimes travels toward the top center of my stomach. My chest feels heavy like I have to cough. I have chronic cystitis once a month. I actually thought that that was causing the pain.  But when I clear the infection, the pain still stays around.  I've been having this for about 2 years. A year ago I done the gallbladder scan and showed normal. I was rushed to emergency room yesterday evening, a gallbladder ultrasound was done and found nothing.  My chest xray shows a calcification in the gallbladder area but after doing ultrasound they said it did not show up so it is probably on the liver. I feel like I'm going crazy.