scared88
21-02-16, 20:03
I've written about this before. Maybe not on here but on other anxiety forums. About 2 years and some months ago I started noticing some discomfort in my left side of my abdomen.
It worried me a bit cause of my swollen lymph nodes and how they're related to the spleen. The year before I had had two ultrasounds of the spleen and it was normal then. I stopped worrying about it for a bit because it went away. But it always kept coming back, often when eating or after eating and it gets worse if I take deep breaths. My diet isn't good so I've always kinda hoped it was just that but I'm so doubtful.
It can be days and weeks even between episodes so it's not at all constant.
It's hard to pinpoint where exactly it's located but I remember it starting just around the lowest rib where the rib cage curves upwards to the breast bone and the discomfort often comes back around that area and sometimes it's higher up. I can feel loads of little lumps between my ribs and they're sometimes sore so I've wondered if they're related to this. The discomfort isn't painful really. It's more just an annoyance and uncomfortable but the level of comfort changes, I remember Xmas Eve 2014 I had a pretty bad episode and I've had stings from time to time.
I've also wondered about it being muscular because I'm often on the computer while on the couch and in bed and I then lie on my left side with my head arched upwards and forward towards the laptop so I can easily type. This does put some strain on my ribcage muscles I'm sure. I actually started doing this the same year I got the discomfort, 2013. I'm trying to fix this and see what happens. I'm also gonna try to limit acidic food or greasy food really. I ate pizza yesterday and I got the discomfort during eating.
Anyway I've had my nodes enlarged now for almost 9 years, four years since the ultrasounds on my spleen and nodes that didn't reveal any abnormal spleen enlargement. But that was before I got the discomfort though.
Apologies for the ramblings and (probably) strange formatting, I'm on a tablet
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And now I'm having discomfort right in that place where it first started and I'm feeling like I'll fall or keel over.
It worried me a bit cause of my swollen lymph nodes and how they're related to the spleen. The year before I had had two ultrasounds of the spleen and it was normal then. I stopped worrying about it for a bit because it went away. But it always kept coming back, often when eating or after eating and it gets worse if I take deep breaths. My diet isn't good so I've always kinda hoped it was just that but I'm so doubtful.
It can be days and weeks even between episodes so it's not at all constant.
It's hard to pinpoint where exactly it's located but I remember it starting just around the lowest rib where the rib cage curves upwards to the breast bone and the discomfort often comes back around that area and sometimes it's higher up. I can feel loads of little lumps between my ribs and they're sometimes sore so I've wondered if they're related to this. The discomfort isn't painful really. It's more just an annoyance and uncomfortable but the level of comfort changes, I remember Xmas Eve 2014 I had a pretty bad episode and I've had stings from time to time.
I've also wondered about it being muscular because I'm often on the computer while on the couch and in bed and I then lie on my left side with my head arched upwards and forward towards the laptop so I can easily type. This does put some strain on my ribcage muscles I'm sure. I actually started doing this the same year I got the discomfort, 2013. I'm trying to fix this and see what happens. I'm also gonna try to limit acidic food or greasy food really. I ate pizza yesterday and I got the discomfort during eating.
Anyway I've had my nodes enlarged now for almost 9 years, four years since the ultrasounds on my spleen and nodes that didn't reveal any abnormal spleen enlargement. But that was before I got the discomfort though.
Apologies for the ramblings and (probably) strange formatting, I'm on a tablet
---------- Post added at 20:03 ---------- Previous post was at 18:04 ----------
And now I'm having discomfort right in that place where it first started and I'm feeling like I'll fall or keel over.