Upper right ab pain
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| Thu, 01-26-2006 - 4:25pm |
Hello, I've been lurking for a while and have decided it's time to get my feet wet.
I've been having upper right rib pain off and on for a while (about a year with frequency getting more and more with time). My pain is mostly where the ribs begin to narrow towards the side. Sometimes I wouldn't even describe it as pain, but more like pressure. It seems to be deep and not near the surface. There was one morning about a month ago that I woke with a few stabbing pains in the area that passed within seconds, no episodes of that since. When I first started having these weird pains, I saw my doctor who had an abdominal CT done to look at the gallbladder and liver and everything looked fine. That was many months ago. Sometimes when I have the funny feeling and I press on it, it feels like what I would think a stomach ulcer would feel like and I can feel the pain right through to my back (towards the shoulder blade). What the heck could be going on here? I also should mention that my periods have been all out of whack since this started too. My gyno put me on birth control telling me something got me off track and 3 months of BC would get me back on track. Well that didn't work. Think there could be a connection between the two problems?

Hi Ribpain!
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