Weird pain

[evester22.livejournal.com]

Hey all. I have a bit of a quandary. So last night something really weird happened. Around 2am, I woke up with a pain in my side, like around my rib on my right side. I often get muscle cramps and stuff like that, so I just tried to wait it out. It got way way worse and I started sweating and got very cold. When I sat up I started to heave like I was going to throw up but I didn't feel nauseous if that makes sense. And I was like, great I have the stomach flu. But after 30 minutes, I felt better. Less pain and no throwing up (I never really threw up, it was dry heaving). Other than just being tired, (I was up from 2:00-3:30) and my side is still a bit sore (not bad, I feel fine). I ate breakfast this morning, drank coffee, and went about my day so I know it was not the stomach flu. Do you guys have any idea of what this could have been? The rib pain kind of felt like it might be ovarian pain but I'm not sure. My rib hurt a little yesterday after I got back from walking dogs but I just thought it was nothing (I have aches and pains often from just doing
regular stuff). So what do you think? Thanks.

Eva

Comments

[paraxeni.livejournal.com]

Ugh that's how I feel with my kidney stones and my ovarian cysts, it can be hard to tell which is which sometimes. Horrible.

[starfruit-slush.livejournal.com]

I've heard that if it is a sharp pain on your right side that feels like it is right below your ribs, it could be your gall bladder.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind that I am not a doctor of course, but this sounds vaguely similar to an experience I had.

A couple of years ago, I was sitting around (IMing with some other VP maintainers, as it happens) when I got an incredibly intense, stabbing pain that radiated throughout one side, like deep under the rib. It started painful, and over the next 15 minutes it became obscenely painful. I started to get dizzy and nauseous from the pain, and almost collapsed. I couldn't even see. It was easily the scariest, most painful thing I have ever experienced.

I finally called my sister to go to the ER, because I seriously felt like it was some kind of serious lung or cardiac event of some kind.

By the time I was seen at the ER, the pain had faded away. I was still scared shitless. The doctor I saw was fantastic, and this is exactly what she said to me after examining me thoroughly, more or less verbatim. I'll just repeat it here:

"This is going to sound unbelievable to you, but it was a type of muscle cramp. For whatever reason, it seems more common in young women, especially shorter women, who spend a lot of time sitting, studying, or at the computer. When I was in medical school, it happened to at least a third of the short women in our class, and nobody else. It happened to me, and believe me, I know why you seriously thought you might die -- it is so, so painful. I went to the ER too when it happened to me. But it actually is just a muscle cramp. It probably won't happen again."

Anyway, that was my experience with a similar-sounding pain of similar duration.

[dystatic.livejournal.com]

could be something to do with your gallbladder?
if it happens again i would definitely go see a doctor

[dying-in-stereo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like kidney stones kind of. Could be ovarian, but when I had ovarian cysts my pain wasn't in my ribs. it was lower. However, you could have been passing a kidney stone and now it's passed or going to pass soon (you might feel it.) and that is why the pain is gone now.

[actorgrl04.livejournal.com]

from what i know, which isn't a lot, it could be gall bladder. my mom it a lot and finally she realized she needed to go to the hospital after puking all night!

[make-me-stay.livejournal.com]

Something similar happened to me about a week ago - I woke up with excruciating pain in my abdomen, around rib height, painful to the point where I couldn't straighten my legs out, couldn't roll over and couldn't breathe. I also felt like I was going to throw up, but couldn't make it to the bathroom because it hurt to move too much. After about 20, 30 minutes, it started to abate, so I fell asleep again. I was absolutely fine the next morning, but I rang a doctor anyway (I was worried because I have some other medical conditions that may involve organ failure!) but he said that it was likely just a severe muscle cramp caused by my lifestyle (sitting at desks or at computers for too long) or I'd been sleeping in an odd position.

If it happens again, or if you're worried about it, get it checked out - but if it was just random and hasn't left you with any effect or lingering pain...probably just one of those things! Hope it doesn't happen again to you!

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

This happened to me once (started off as a dull pain that quickly escalated to excruciating pain), and it turned out to be a cyst on my ovary that had ruptured. No fun. :( If it continues or gets worse, you should probably go see a doctor.

(Have you had your appendix out?)