Chris2010
14-03-10, 11:15
Apologies for the long post but I hope that someone out there can give me some advice please.
I had my son in July 2008. Towards the end of my pregnancy I started getting a strange feeling under my right upper rib cage sort of tingling and then my heart felt painful. Drs said it was to do with the way baby was lying etc. After I had him the pain never went away infact the pain which I had felt to be in my heart moved down as my tummy went down to under my upper left rib cage.
I took myself back to the Drs and they said it was muscle strain and referred me to a oestopath. Well hundreds of pounds later I was still in pain so back I went. I then tried hypnotherapy as the Drs decided it was post natal depression making me feel this way and a year ago I was in hospital for anxiety and post natal depression. Still no improvement to the pain which I knew wasnt in my head.
After much moaning and groaning by me the Drs did several blood tests all of which came back normal. Then I got an ultrasound of my abdomen, x-ray of abdomen, dye contrast to visualise my kidneys. All clear for gallstones and my major fear my pancreas (my dad died of pancreatic cancer at 47) was declared to be one of the heathliest pancreas he had seen for a long time. Ovarian ultrasound, chest x-ray and endoscopy. They found a hiatal hernia and some gastritis and put me on Nexium. Which only served to upset my stomach. Following this I had a colonscopy which my consultant could not complete as my colon was such a twisted shape. He took biopsies and gave me the all clear any way.
I guess what Im asking is does anyone have a clue as to what may be causing this pain as Im at the end of my tether and still cant get the pancreatic fear out of my head. The pain feels like its in my ribs aswell on the left side now and Im getting more and more stressed.
Thank you for taking the time to read :)
I had my son in July 2008. Towards the end of my pregnancy I started getting a strange feeling under my right upper rib cage sort of tingling and then my heart felt painful. Drs said it was to do with the way baby was lying etc. After I had him the pain never went away infact the pain which I had felt to be in my heart moved down as my tummy went down to under my upper left rib cage.
I took myself back to the Drs and they said it was muscle strain and referred me to a oestopath. Well hundreds of pounds later I was still in pain so back I went. I then tried hypnotherapy as the Drs decided it was post natal depression making me feel this way and a year ago I was in hospital for anxiety and post natal depression. Still no improvement to the pain which I knew wasnt in my head.
After much moaning and groaning by me the Drs did several blood tests all of which came back normal. Then I got an ultrasound of my abdomen, x-ray of abdomen, dye contrast to visualise my kidneys. All clear for gallstones and my major fear my pancreas (my dad died of pancreatic cancer at 47) was declared to be one of the heathliest pancreas he had seen for a long time. Ovarian ultrasound, chest x-ray and endoscopy. They found a hiatal hernia and some gastritis and put me on Nexium. Which only served to upset my stomach. Following this I had a colonscopy which my consultant could not complete as my colon was such a twisted shape. He took biopsies and gave me the all clear any way.
I guess what Im asking is does anyone have a clue as to what may be causing this pain as Im at the end of my tether and still cant get the pancreatic fear out of my head. The pain feels like its in my ribs aswell on the left side now and Im getting more and more stressed.
Thank you for taking the time to read :)