Left sided pain

[Guest guest]

Hope everyone is pretty much having a pain free holiday weekend.

Just wondering how many of you may experience left sided pain?

[Guest guest]

Hi Tonia,

My personal experience is consistent with left side pain. So much so that it

is the benchmark I use to determine the beginnings of a CP attack.

Characteristically, I get a pain exactly under the sternum (breastbone) that

then travels

right under the rib cage on the left side and can, given enough time,

continue around the torso and up the back on the left. If I can determine by the

pain

and pain pattern soon enough and begin codeine soon enough and go to total

rest soon enough I can minimize the extent of a CP attack. Or, at least I think

I can.

The main trick is early detection and prompt treatment and response. If I can

" get " ahead of the attack, I can affect it's extent. This requires a very

sensitive self awareness, and the ability to be able to take immediate steps. To

feel an attack and then try to continue a normal activity, just to get it

done, is to invite a major attack problem. One must have the latitude to be able

to immediately change the course of one's daily life. Not an easy situation to

put into place.

I hope you are well today and have a Great Labor Day holiday

Best wishes, Poncho - GA

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for your response, Poncho.

I have not been diagnosed w/CP. Have had every test imaginable w/no positive

results. In July, 2000, I became very very sick after eating out one night

and also had a few drinks. Felt like I had drank all nite. At that time I was

sick to my stomach, had mid plus right and left sided pain mostly in the

front but radiated to my back also. Doc did blood test, ultrasound, went to GI

for endoscopy - everything normal. Finally in mid August, after being so sick

this whole time and losing 15 lbs, new doc sent me in for a HIDA to see

functioning of my gall bladder but my gall bladder would never show up on the

scan.

Said I had acute and cronic gall bladder disease and within 3 days I was

having it removed. It took 3 hours for my surgery as surgeon said it was

inflamed

against my liver and he had to crave it away (I was told before hand that it

would probably take only 45 min to an hour since I was so thin and had no

previous surgeries). I thought I was going to completely recover and be able to

be a Mom again. Well, I did get somewhat better. Nite sweats stopped and pain

went from a 10 to about a 4. I kept going back to the doc and surgeon

complaining telling them something was still wrong of course all my labs kept

being

completely normal. My surgeon decided to send me to a GI friend of his. He

performed an ERCP and dilated my biliary duct (didn't mess w/my pancreas duct).

He found to small stones and lots of yellow debris that was removed. After

that, all the right sided pain was gone but I still to this day have the left.

I went back to see the GI about a month later and he felt that my pain was

now just muscular (sp?) sorry. I just quite going to the docs as I was

beginning to even think maybe e I am imagining all this. The last couple of

years

I've tried to ignore the constant pain I have as I have 3 small children and a

wonderful husband who were suffering as much as me. I did even quite my job

of 13 years back in 2001 thinking maybe I needed a change and was stressed out.

I do this day don't mention my pain even though I choke it up daily. I

take no med's whatsoever. I'm so sorry but I get so scared at times not knowing

what's wrong with me and no one to talk with anymore. Thanks for letting me

vent here.

Take care,

Tonya

[Guest guest]

I used to occasionally have lt sided back pain and occasionally lt

lower quadarant pain, I have read that pancreatitic pain can

sometimes even feel like pelvic pain. But since I had the pump put

in I have NO PAIN. I occasionally have to taken 1 Lortab 5mg or 1

actiq but not routinely.

Peace and Grace to you in JESUS NAME.

Atwell LPN