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Posted 9/20/2015 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
Hi guys. Ever since the surgery I've been feeling better every day. The pain after the surgery went away very quickly, so I was super grateful for that. Now 8 months after the surgery I've suddenly started having pain on the left side of my ribs. It just came out of nowhere and I feel it might be connected to the surgery. It's only on my left side pretty high up behind the ribcage. It doesn't hurt very bad but I can feel it all the time. Anyone else had this?

I'm thinking about seeing a doctor, but the problem is that I'm in a foreign country studying so I'm not sure how to do it here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jakob.
Posted 9/20/2015 6:49 PM (GMT 0)
The only thing that I can think of, is that I've been carrying some heay bags from the grocery store lately. Now I'm super worried something might have happened to the wrap.
Posted 9/20/2015 8:06 PM (GMT 0)
It could be an IBS or stomach pain. I get awful pain under my left rib from IBS and gas trapped in the splenic flexure. I find lowering fibre in my diet helps, and avoiding fodmaps can help too. Yu say your now in a foreign country, has your diet changed?

Your wrap isn't really under the left rib so don't think you should be too worried about it, but if it continues I would see the Dr about it.
Posted 9/20/2015 8:15 PM (GMT 0)
Andy1986: Thanks for your answer. I also have IBS but I've only had pain in my lower stomach. I guess your right and that it could be IBS. It just feels like it's to far up, and now I'ts also behind the left chest. You're right about the diet, I've been eating horribly bad here. I must get my diet under control, but it's so hard to eat good when you have so much to do in school.
Posted 9/21/2015 9:56 AM (GMT 0)
I went for months and months thinking that my pain was in my stomach because it was so high up under the ribs, I didn't listen to any doctors that it was IBS, but I recently finally realised its my colon and if I focus on it I can actually feel it descend into my lower abdomen at times, and that is why no stomach meds have worked. Take a look at this diagram to see how high the colon actually goes, and under the left rib is a very sharp turn

http://howshealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Splenic-Flexure-Barium-Enema.png

When I eat anything that gets my colon moving, even just water at times, it causes me pain. Its only when I seem to follow a low fibre diet that I get lasting relief from it.
Posted 10/22/2015 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
I also have this under the ribs pain. I get it both at the splenic and hepatic flextures. IBS from prolonged acid blocker use (I was on only an H2 for 3.5 years and still got the pain). I seem to get it mostly in the afternoon and its really annoying. Walking, a heating pad, sometimes gaviscon or baking soda help.
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