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Rabbit1977

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Left-sided pain
« on: November 13, 2023, 08:54:09 PM »

It's me. I'm back again and my health anxiety is playing up. I've had intermittent sharp pains on my left hand side (roughly just below the rib cage and more on the side than middle of stomach) for several months now. I'll get a sharp pain there (and I'll stop moving around to not aggravate anything) and it'll pass. Sometimes it will come back again later the same day, other times I won't get it again for more than a week. It hasn't gotten any worse since it first happened.

I'm petrified it might be a cancer of some sort, but the more logical side of me is thinking that there would be more symptoms than just the odd sharp pain. And then I wonder, as I have developed more tendency to pass wind over the past months, if this is perimenopause related.

So, I guess my question is, is there anyone else out there who has experienced similar during perimenopause?

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CLKD

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2023, 09:34:44 PM »

Wind.  Sometimes I can watch my 'bubbles' moving down my body  ::) especially when I'm in the bath.  Do U pass it easily?  How is your diet overall?

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marge

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2023, 11:02:32 AM »

I get the odd ache and pain in that area, but when l’ve dismissed all the serious conditions it could be (fully paid up member of the Health Anxiety Club), l put it down to wind. If it comes and goes, it can’t be anything too bad, but l understand your worries.
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jaypo

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2023, 01:22:41 PM »

This could be diverticulitis,I have a flare up of it right now and it is always on the left side,it's quite common as we age,some people never get bothered by it but if the pouches become inflamed THEN you feel it,look on the NHS site,see if the symptoms describe what your feeling
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Rabbit1977

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2023, 05:11:48 PM »

Wind.  Sometimes I can watch my 'bubbles' moving down my body  ::) especially when I'm in the bath.  Do U pass it easily?  How is your diet overall?

Hi - sorry all for being so bad at responding. I find I generally expel wind easily enough....there have been a couple of occasions when I have felt like I was having a heart attack and have had to pat my chest to release the wind. I had to change my diet earlier this year as I was found (out of the blue) to have high cholesterol and high liver enzymes. I got rid of all cheese, crisps (other than the Snack-A-Jacks which I believe may contain less salt/saturated fat), most processed meats (bacon, sausages, almost all ham), chocolate. At work, where we get a meal each day, I stopped eating most things as we cannot see how much cream, salt, oil etc is being put in to it....so normally there, I have a baked jacket potato, undressed salad, a bag of Uncle Ben's microwave rice and a slice of ham as I cannot live without meat completely. Occasionally I will take a soup in with me.
At the weekends, I have one steak a week, always with rice and kale/broccoli, roasted vegetable baguette for lunch, and then on Sundays a chicken baguette and evening baked beans & hashbrowns and broccoli.
I have also gone big on porridge oats as I think they remove the bad cholesterol from your body? I make an oat bake with bananas, honey, raspberries, milk and oats.
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Rabbit1977

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2023, 05:14:10 PM »

I get the odd ache and pain in that area, but when l’ve dismissed all the serious conditions it could be (fully paid up member of the Health Anxiety Club), l put it down to wind. If it comes and goes, it can’t be anything too bad, but l understand your worries.

That was kind of my thinking, that if it came and went it couldn't be that serious. But the mind plays all sorts of tricks...I know someone who recently felt a pain elsewhere for the first time, went to the doctors and they have discovered she has cancer in three different parts of her body. Oh, to be young again and not have to worry about these things!
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Rabbit1977

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2023, 05:15:37 PM »

This could be diverticulitis,I have a flare up of it right now and it is always on the left side,it's quite common as we age,some people never get bothered by it but if the pouches become inflamed THEN you feel it,look on the NHS site,see if the symptoms describe what your feeling

Do you mind me asking how they diagnosed the diverticulitis? I will take a look on their website!
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jaypo

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Re: Left-sided pain
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2023, 07:43:55 PM »

They did a colonoscopy but less invasive is a CT colonography,my pain comes and goes too, I can feel every bit of gas passing through that part of my colon and (sorry for tmi) but when I need a poo,it can become painful.
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