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Upper LEFT quadrant pain
I am 31 years old. This past May I had severe left sided upper quadrant pain. It felt like it was just under my ribs, usually in the front but sometimes in my side and when most severe, in my back. It lasted for about 3 weeks and I just let it go, confident that it would just go away.
In the first week of August the exact same pain came back. It was so severe that I called my MD after only 3 days. I had chest x-rays, abd sonogram and blood work. The only abnormality was my amylase which was 397. My lipase was somewhat elevated also. I had an abd CT which showed a slightly enlarged pancreas but was told that was probably normal for my age. I was but on prevacid and told to see what happens. I still complained of severe pain do I had an EGD. All was normal. I then had an ERCP done and while no obstruction was noted I did end up with pancreatitis and was in the hospital for 5 days. The 'pancreatitis' pain has now resolved but my original pain remains. I can now relate some of the pain to after meals but that pain usually occurs on the right side. The left sided pain is ALWAYS there. It gets bad and then eases up but is always there. I do become nauseated at times but I am not vomiting. I lost 10 pounds in the hospital but put 6 back on. No further weight loss has been noted. My GI physician is stumped. He did mention sphincter manometry but is hesitant due to my pancreatitis.
What I want to know is this: Is there a profile of patients who have sphincter dysfunction? Are there certain things that cause it or is the cause unknown? Would that cause LEFT sided pain. With the tests I have had done, would CA be ruled out or would that still be a possibility?
Thank you,
Elizabeth
In the first week of August the exact same pain came back. It was so severe that I called my MD after only 3 days. I had chest x-rays, abd sonogram and blood work. The only abnormality was my amylase which was 397. My lipase was somewhat elevated also. I had an abd CT which showed a slightly enlarged pancreas but was told that was probably normal for my age. I was but on prevacid and told to see what happens. I still complained of severe pain do I had an EGD. All was normal. I then had an ERCP done and while no obstruction was noted I did end up with pancreatitis and was in the hospital for 5 days. The 'pancreatitis' pain has now resolved but my original pain remains. I can now relate some of the pain to after meals but that pain usually occurs on the right side. The left sided pain is ALWAYS there. It gets bad and then eases up but is always there. I do become nauseated at times but I am not vomiting. I lost 10 pounds in the hospital but put 6 back on. No further weight loss has been noted. My GI physician is stumped. He did mention sphincter manometry but is hesitant due to my pancreatitis.
What I want to know is this: Is there a profile of patients who have sphincter dysfunction? Are there certain things that cause it or is the cause unknown? Would that cause LEFT sided pain. With the tests I have had done, would CA be ruled out or would that still be a possibility?
Thank you,
Elizabeth
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Approximately four years ago, I started waking up at night on my left side with a pain under my left rib cage toward my sternum and thru to my back. When I'd roll over, it would feel like a foot is asleep and waking up. When that would happen, it would bother me for days sometimes accompanied by burning for hours, days even and sometimes I'd have shortness of breath. No combination of diet, IBS medicine, antacids, bentyl, nothing, NOTHING helps. I've had a negative EGD, Colonoscopy and negative CT's and MRI's. I've been to my GP more in the last four years more than I've ever been to the doctor in my whole life, I've seen the Gastro doctor and a neurologist. The only time I seemed to get help was from diathermy which is a heat treatment but even that didn't fix it but seemed to provide some relief. One time the pain hit so bad I thought I was going to climb the wall it was as bad as passing a kidney stone or childbirth. It seemed like it could be bowel but not really. Now I've had at least 6 or7 of these episodes as I call them, they come on really hard but only last 3-15 minutes but it gets almost unbearable then I feel bad for days even weeks. Just posting because I see here I'm not alone and yes, I was flat out told it was all in my head! Thanks for reading and praying for us all!!
Approximately four years ago, I started waking up at night on my left side with a pain under my left rib cage toward my sternum and thru to my back. When I'd roll over, it would feel like a foot is asleep and waking up. When that would happen, it would bother me for days sometimes accompanied by burning for hours, days even and sometimes I'd have shortness of breath. No combination of diet, IBS medicine, antacids, bentyl, nothing, NOTHING helps. I've had a negative EGD, Colonoscopy and negative CT's and MRI's. I've been to my GP more in the last four years more than I've ever been to the doctor in my whole life, I've seen the Gastro doctor and a neurologist. The only time I seemed to get help was from diathermy which is a heat treatment but even that didn't fix it but seemed to provide some relief. One time the pain hit so bad I thought I was going to climb the wall it was as bad as passing a kidney stone or childbirth. It seemed like it could be bowel but not really. Now I've had at least 6 or7 of these episodes as I call them, they come on really hard but only last 3-15 minutes but it gets almost unbearable then I feel bad for days even weeks. Just posting because I see here I'm not alone and yes, I was flat out told it was all in my head! Thanks for reading and praying for us all!!
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E organs and gallstones hurt and cause illnesses like colds etc.... Juicing eliminates hidden toxins parasites and cucumber for example gives you great skin . You must clean out the inside organs to get the outside organ or skin to be healthy and supple. Read Suzanne summers books if you really want to learn nutrition and health and have A healthylife!!!
E organs and gallstones hurt and cause illnesses like colds etc.... Juicing eliminates hidden toxins parasites and cucumber for example gives you great skin . You must clean out the inside organs to get the outside organ or skin to be healthy and supple. Read Suzanne summers books if you really want to learn nutrition and health and have A healthylife!!!
I havd been Dealing with pain in left side for years when I started juicing! Get a jack Elaine juicer grab your beets carrots celery cucumbers and drink!!!! Put away all sugar, sodas, and garbage and clear out of house. That means no cookies either. Begin slow by juicing a cucumber a day with One or two beets don't forget the roots and leaves!!! Mix veer juice with celery and carrot and cucumber, beets kill cancer so go slow. Add fruits and other veggies, don't mix fruits and veg, and slowly you will get better. I eliminated all red meats. Eat fish chicken and never fried foods. After a month of eating mostly juice, raw veggies, chicken fish and juice you should begin to purge all toxins. Lots of info on net for juicing. My entire family juices now and it's family fun!!! We also got a wheat grass juicer and this stuff will aid in your healing like crazy. Also buy a parazapper by Hilda clarke online or do parasite cleanse. Online info avalable for how to. Parasites cause many problems so it's important to do thus. At first juicing brings on symptoms sometimes like fever blisters which can be viruses hidden in nerve tissue. Grap DMSO from nutrition store place a dot on middle of sore it kills it. I am not a dr but study nutrition after being sick my whole life. Email 'me' at ***@**** if you have any questions I'll help the best I can! Also it's good to drink 6 -8 distilled glasses water a day.
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WOW! As many of you I was told the same lies by the Dr.! I went to 3 or 4 different Dr.s the first one said I pulled a muscle and put me on pain killers. The second Dr. told me I pulled a muscle/pain killers. The third did some blood work and the fourth did just about every test ya'll mentioned and everything came back normal. Well I doubt this kind of pain is NORMAL!!!! I am 22 and I have had it off and on for about a year and a half in my left side. And no one can figure out what it is. They told me to keep a diary of like the foods I ate and when I went to the bathroom and when I felt the actual pains etc. But I guess that didn't help to much either. I am a little scared after reading that some of you have had this for MANY years! Scary! I to don't like going to the Dr. much and even more so when they can't even figure out what's wrong. So many trips to the Dr. and the insurance doesn't cover EVERYTHING!!!! I can't believe all of us could have this pain and no one knows what it is?? Crazy! Thanks for sharing! Hope everyone feels better!
I am happy that I am not alone. I have had this for 7 years, I am seeing a new rhuemotologist next week. I think My own thoughts that I might have gotten shingles 7 years ago when my kids had chicken pox and it destroyed the nerves in my back and chest. I did not have the rash but I hear 15% of people get no rash. Anyone ever hear of this before?
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Oh my Stars! I can't believe I found a web site where people suffer from the same symptoms of Left Upper quadrant pain. I too have been through all of the gross and disgusting tests that all came back normal. It desperately affects my life and stops me in my tracks. I was sent to a pain specialist who put me on all of these strong narcotics that snowed me to the point that I couldn't work effectively so I stopped taking them. I felt that they didn't help that much, snowed me, and why should I take such strong narcotics everyday for a pain that I wasn't having every day? Go figure. I have lupus which alot of Dr.'s use as a dumping ground diagnosis, and the last thing my Gastro doc said in regards to the pain is that it could just be related to my lupus, as if to excuse himself from having to truely find out what is causing the debilitating pain. Thank you to each one of you who have posted here for sharing your intimate stories. I feel as if each of you have already personally written a portion of my own story. Not a fun journey, but at least we have each other to discuss it with, as family and other friends could care less about our bowel habits and our disgusting and painful barium enemas. God Bless Each one of you, and someday, hopefully we'll have a diagnosis and most of all a cure from this mysterious pain in our sides.
Oh my Stars! I can't believe I found a web site where people suffer from the same symptoms of Left Upper quadrant pain. I too have been through all of the gross and disgusting tests that all came back normal. It desperately affects my life and stops me in my tracks. I was sent to a pain specialist who put me on all of these strong narcotics that snowed me to the point that I couldn't work effectively so I stopped taking them. I felt that they didn't help that much, snowed me, and why should I take such strong narcotics everyday for a pain that I wasn't having every day? Go figure. I have lupus which alot of Dr.'s use as a dumping ground diagnosis, and the last thing my Gastro doc said in regards to the pain is that it could just be related to my lupus, as if to excuse himself from having to truely find out what is causing the debilitating pain. Thank you to each one of you who have posted here for sharing your intimate stories. I feel as if each of you have already personally written a portion of my own story. Not a fun journey, but at least we have each other to discuss it with, as family and other friends could care less about our bowel habits and our disgusting and painful barium enemas. God Bless Each one of you, and someday, hopefully we'll have a diagnosis and most of all a cure from this mysterious pain in our sides.
I have been having left upper qudrant pain also very bloated.
Loose bowels. etc taking Axid not helping. comments please
Loose bowels. etc taking Axid not helping. comments please
yeah guys see exactly where you are coming from.
I was very sick in London after eating a "dodgy" beef meal, & my stools where heavily laden with blood.
After getting over the sickness that was defined as gastroenterietis, I have had pains in my luq on & off roaming arround the area for about 4 yrs, docs dont seem overly concerned with it, but stools etc have never been right since the sickness, a general feeling of tiredness often accompanies the pains & dull aches.. had all the tests & not getting any answers......
seems like we can only deal with it & get on with life, I tend to get the worst pains pre meals, yet after this experience bloating & frequent bowel movement ....
be well..
I was very sick in London after eating a "dodgy" beef meal, & my stools where heavily laden with blood.
After getting over the sickness that was defined as gastroenterietis, I have had pains in my luq on & off roaming arround the area for about 4 yrs, docs dont seem overly concerned with it, but stools etc have never been right since the sickness, a general feeling of tiredness often accompanies the pains & dull aches.. had all the tests & not getting any answers......
seems like we can only deal with it & get on with life, I tend to get the worst pains pre meals, yet after this experience bloating & frequent bowel movement ....
be well..
i also have had this pain and have had cat scans and still nothing. if any one knows what to do ill try anything im ready to just cut myself open to find out whats rong
I too have suffered from this dasterdly Upper Left Quadrant Pain. However, I am feeling about 90% better than I have before.
I am a 45 year old female. I weigh about 109 and I am in pretty descent physical shape. My problems began this past December 1999, right after Christmas. My husband and I are avid runners, so I thought it was due to over-exertion. The pain would begin under the left rib cage and radiate both up to the left flank and down to the left groin. I had a slight fever every so ofter(no more than 100). The pain seemed to be worse when I ran. I could not stand the pain anymore, so I contacted my primary. He said that the symptoms sounded like a kidney infection, and he put me on an antiobiotic for a week. Perhaps I had a slight kidney infection, but I really did not feel much better after taking the antibiotic. My primary sent me for every test you could think of in order to determine what I might have--x-rays, bone scans, a colonoscopy, and cat scans. Even my Gyn got involved, thinking it might be ovary or uterine related. The Gyn also sent me for several female tests. Every test I went for put me into an emotional hole until results came back showing nothing was wrong. The colonoscopy almost put me over the edge. Knowing that my Dad died of colon cancer, and that I have had IBS since my college years, I was convinced that I had colon cancer. The results came back negative for that, thank GOD!! It was also frustating, though, not knowing what the problem was. I discontinued my running, assuming the pain might have been due to over exertion. Discontinuing my workouts, however, did not help my emotional or mental health out at all, but I did what I thought I should do.
My Mom suggested that I try taking tums before and after each meal that perhaps I have trapped gas. I did that and it seemed to alleviate some of the pain. My primary did a few more tests and concluded that I have Costochondritis (inflammation of the cartilidge between the ribs) and colonic splenic flexture distention (trapped gas in the colon on the left side of the body where the colon makes a turn under the rib cage--thus pushing up against the ribs and causing pain and discomfort).
I am feeling much better now. I have continued my workouts, but instead of just running, I now cross-train--run, bike and some light weight lifting. When I get the pain, it is usually very mild and goes away quickly just by me taking the tums more often and by increasing my intake of roughage (broccoli and salads made with romaine lettuce). I also drink much more water than I used to and started drinking cranberry juice too.
Just thought I would share my experience with you. Hope it helps. Keep in touch!!
I am a 45 year old female. I weigh about 109 and I am in pretty descent physical shape. My problems began this past December 1999, right after Christmas. My husband and I are avid runners, so I thought it was due to over-exertion. The pain would begin under the left rib cage and radiate both up to the left flank and down to the left groin. I had a slight fever every so ofter(no more than 100). The pain seemed to be worse when I ran. I could not stand the pain anymore, so I contacted my primary. He said that the symptoms sounded like a kidney infection, and he put me on an antiobiotic for a week. Perhaps I had a slight kidney infection, but I really did not feel much better after taking the antibiotic. My primary sent me for every test you could think of in order to determine what I might have--x-rays, bone scans, a colonoscopy, and cat scans. Even my Gyn got involved, thinking it might be ovary or uterine related. The Gyn also sent me for several female tests. Every test I went for put me into an emotional hole until results came back showing nothing was wrong. The colonoscopy almost put me over the edge. Knowing that my Dad died of colon cancer, and that I have had IBS since my college years, I was convinced that I had colon cancer. The results came back negative for that, thank GOD!! It was also frustating, though, not knowing what the problem was. I discontinued my running, assuming the pain might have been due to over exertion. Discontinuing my workouts, however, did not help my emotional or mental health out at all, but I did what I thought I should do.
My Mom suggested that I try taking tums before and after each meal that perhaps I have trapped gas. I did that and it seemed to alleviate some of the pain. My primary did a few more tests and concluded that I have Costochondritis (inflammation of the cartilidge between the ribs) and colonic splenic flexture distention (trapped gas in the colon on the left side of the body where the colon makes a turn under the rib cage--thus pushing up against the ribs and causing pain and discomfort).
I am feeling much better now. I have continued my workouts, but instead of just running, I now cross-train--run, bike and some light weight lifting. When I get the pain, it is usually very mild and goes away quickly just by me taking the tums more often and by increasing my intake of roughage (broccoli and salads made with romaine lettuce). I also drink much more water than I used to and started drinking cranberry juice too.
Just thought I would share my experience with you. Hope it helps. Keep in touch!!
I have been having the same symptoms as many of you - ulq pain that radiates to my back - much worse after eating ESPECIALLY if I eat too much! I have had ultrasounds of pancreas, gallbladder, liver, etc. showing nothing. Had sigmoidoscopy (painful experience!) with biopsy - showed nothing. Had several EKG's - perfectly normal. Upper GI showed Reflux and they are attributing the pain to that - BULL! It's clear down under my ribs and is very different from heartburn! I have found one thing that seems to improve it, Yoga. This stumped me at first because the pain is nothing like a muscular pain. My naturalist says that yoga is very good for repositioning internal organs - so maybe that has something to do with it. Being that I am not disciplined I have not been doing the yoga regularly. Only use it when I need it. But it does seem to work. I only do 10-15 minutes of it and see a difference. If anyone would want to give it a try, I would be interested in hearing if it helps you too.
Good luck!
Good luck!
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