Hernia under left ribs?

[niceguy2007]

Hi,

I have upper left quadrant pain.

To be more specific, I've been having mild pain in one of my lower-most ribs on the left side for over a month now.
One rib feels especially sore to touch. Massaging that rib makes the pain go away. Sometimes the entire region feels sore to the touch. It is slightly painful to lie down on the left side.

Immediately below the left ribs, if you press the abdomen, you can feel something popping or crackling, and there is some movement inside (its not so if you press the corresponding right side of the abdomen). It's not painful if you press this area underneath the ribcage. But the rib itself is sore and slightly painful to press. Sometimes when I bend over I feel some movement in there, like some fiber is moving.

I had a doctor palpate my abdomen and she could not find anything. She thought it was a sore muscle or something. But I'm concerned about the movement beneath the left-side ribcage.

I was wondering if these are the signs of a hernia just underneath the ribcage, on the left side?

[JRBARBOUR]

Dr. Watters, I also have the same symtoms as everyone else except my "popping" is pretty constant! It pops when I breathe, sit, reach, lay!! sometimes its very hard pops and painful. By the end of the day my left side is sore to touch and some back pain! I have had a x-ray and a ct-scan and nothing was found!! Not really sure where to go next.Just wondering if you have any advice and could mine possibly be the costochondrial dislocation you talked about? I dont recall doing anything but guess it could have been something simple..thanks. JB

[mgost]

Just curious.....has anyone noticed any swelling type condition around the area around the lower left ribs?  I have a lot of the same symptoms as people have noted but I have also noticed that the area around the left lower ribs is larger than the right side.  I don't know when this first happened.....I know for at least a couple of months now.  But I may have had this for years.  I just never really noticed.

[Christopher R Watters, MD]

Your symptoms certainly sound consistent with costochondrial dislocation. This would not explain any change in stools though. I can't thinkmof any reason to have an MRI given your symptoms. This is generally a physical exam finding.

[tat80]

i am 31 year old man,sound a lot like me what you guys have written,but i have more symtoms.it started when i was laying on couch after dinner and i turned and coughed and felt like something ripped right behind my belly button.after the pain when i moved it felt like 2 fingers about 2 inches long were wiggling(very painfuly wiggling)behind my belly button.this pain went on for over a week.i have a very physical job and it really bothered me much worse at work.along with this pain  i had a stabbing pain in lower abdomenand felt tight in lower abdomen.then i noticed my lower left side was swelling even more after i ate.i went to doctor and he ordered an ultra sound, which they found nothing on.after this i went 3 to 4 days without a bowel movement, severel times in a couple of weeks.when i did finally have one it came out flat, like someone was pushing both sides of my colon, sometime 1 long piece and sometimes a bunk of short flat pieces(i know it is gross!)after this i had a ct scan done, which they found nothing.after this i had a scope run down my mouth to my stomache and a colonscopy(hope they went through the mouth first!)the doc found a hiatel hernia and removed a polop from my colon.he prescribed me with benyl and said the symptoms should go away.so everything sound good to me.now its been 3 weeks later and i am still having flat bowel movements and feels like there is a ball the size of my fist just sitting there under my lower left rib.if i push in there with my finger it feels like a snapple top after you break the seal and just click on it , it gos pop when i push it in.ive been to 3 diffrent doctors and they cant tell me anything else about it, one said i had strained a muscle or ligament.they had ordered an mri but my insurnce denied it because the didnt find anything in the other tests.ive seen the article about the slipping rib, and i have seen something else on here about a wandering spleen, which i feel this feeling of a mass right where it is located.sometimes when i am in bed and turn to lay on the right side it feels like something shifts and is uncomfortble to lay that was. when i move back to my left side it seems to move back in place.all i know is it isnt normal and i demand to find answers, i am going to an intenist next week.as far as stress issues or unhealthy diets, im not sure if that is the case. i worked out at least 4 times a week on top of my vigourus job before this happened,for years i might add with no problems. i am in good shape a bit of a belly , but not much of one.and this all started from a cough will slightly turned while lying down.all symptoms are gone except the popping under left rib , a feeling of  mass the size of my fist in same spot, and my bowel movements are still flat, which doctors have said are not related to my hiatel hernia.
hopefully someone knows something about this that sees this site.one good thing the doctor that took my polop out had told me that if i hadnt had the colonscopy the polop he removed would most likly have turned to cancer by the time i was 40.he said since having a pre cancerous polop at my age , i should have one done every three years, now just have to get this other stuff figured out, thank for your time.

[jessicazillion]

I have this going on too, but it feels like my lower left rib is digging into my colon, or else it's digging into some some sinister growth (or a hernia?). I am very short-waisted! are any of you short-waisted?  So the rib is close to the colon, I think . It's been going on for about five years, off and on. I've been to two doctors and they both said there's nothing there, lose weight. (I am slightly overweight, mostly belly fat.) I also have periodic attacks of colitis or irritable bowel syndrome or  whatever, and the discomfort is more noticable for days or weeks after I have one of those. The attacks are very bad, I have to lie down immediately, even if I'm in public, and try to keep my gut from rupturing. Thanks everyone. I can't believe this discussion has been going on since 2007!

[lozzalini]

Heya !

I totally empathise with your description.... it is definitely stress realted and always has me feeling weird in that area during what i call 'anxiety attacks'.
Feels like your gonna have a heart attack, and pushing on that popping place sort of relieves it.

Wish it would just leave...OR at least find out what it is !