Jsp
01-02-13, 18:47
I'm so fed up with it all. If it's not one thing it's another thing :(.
It started about a week ago, when I was feeling very bloated and a little sick for a few days along with stomach acid reflux (I get this a lot. I take Omeprazole 20mg for it) and with a lot of burping (to the point that if I even take just one bite of food I burp several times, quite loudly!) and passing wind. This passed kind of, but about three days ago, I started experiencing a niggling, achey pain right of my chest bone, where your liver and gallbladder would be located. The pain is still there, and it lingers around that area going onto the side of my ribcage.
This pain has also moved downwards into my bowels. Niggling pains, mainly on the right side of my lower abdomen but also sometimes on the left side, with sometimes a constant irritable feeling and a lot of "gurgling down there". I noticed that this was worse the other day after having a bowel movement, but have not felt like that since. I've been going to the toilet fine, sometimes a bit loose but nowhere close enough to call it diarrhea. No blood or anything like that either.
The pain is not excruciating or anything, but it is enough for me to be worried about it.
I saw the nurse today as I couldn't get an appointment before the weekend with my doctor. She said she can't diagnose me, but said it sounds like it is due to it being irritable (I assume she was hinting at IBS but wasn't allowed to explicitly say it), and if it gets worse over the weekend I can always see an out-of-hours GP or go to a walk-in center, or A&E if it gets really painful.
I'm just so worried. The frequent burping, bloated feeling, pain high up in my abdomen on the right side and lower down in my lower abdomen, could it all be due to IBS? I didn't think your bowels started a few inches under your nipples :/! I'm worried it's due to gallbladder or my liver or something like that.
It started about a week ago, when I was feeling very bloated and a little sick for a few days along with stomach acid reflux (I get this a lot. I take Omeprazole 20mg for it) and with a lot of burping (to the point that if I even take just one bite of food I burp several times, quite loudly!) and passing wind. This passed kind of, but about three days ago, I started experiencing a niggling, achey pain right of my chest bone, where your liver and gallbladder would be located. The pain is still there, and it lingers around that area going onto the side of my ribcage.
This pain has also moved downwards into my bowels. Niggling pains, mainly on the right side of my lower abdomen but also sometimes on the left side, with sometimes a constant irritable feeling and a lot of "gurgling down there". I noticed that this was worse the other day after having a bowel movement, but have not felt like that since. I've been going to the toilet fine, sometimes a bit loose but nowhere close enough to call it diarrhea. No blood or anything like that either.
The pain is not excruciating or anything, but it is enough for me to be worried about it.
I saw the nurse today as I couldn't get an appointment before the weekend with my doctor. She said she can't diagnose me, but said it sounds like it is due to it being irritable (I assume she was hinting at IBS but wasn't allowed to explicitly say it), and if it gets worse over the weekend I can always see an out-of-hours GP or go to a walk-in center, or A&E if it gets really painful.
I'm just so worried. The frequent burping, bloated feeling, pain high up in my abdomen on the right side and lower down in my lower abdomen, could it all be due to IBS? I didn't think your bowels started a few inches under your nipples :/! I'm worried it's due to gallbladder or my liver or something like that.