Hi, I am having a quite sharp pain on my left side under my lowest rib. It s at the front. I had the same pain about 3 weeks ago and the nurse said it was a spastic bowel and gave me bowel relaxant, however I was not having issues with the bowel and the tablets do nothing. Eventually the pain went away on it s own.On both occasions I have been hormonal but not on my period, and the pain worsens when moving and sneezing, but not when coughing or going to the toilet.I would rather not go back to the hospital as last time they kept talking about ectopic pregnancies and other things, which us turned out not to be but it heightened my anxiety for days after, which is rather avoid
Hi, Firstly, sorry to hear about your symptoms. As the history is straight away highlighting the symptoms related to two things as the pain is present just below the rib over the left side. There are some few basic important points which are not mentioned here. I would like to ask you your age and also if you have any gastric issues. The pain area is more prone for two things. Either this will be related to acidity or it may be related to heart. Take this way, If it is related to gastric you can try some anti acidity medicine, and it should be fine. In case, it's not this than the heart needs to get assessed first. Because many a time a misdiagnosed condition later becomes serious condition.  So I would like to advice your get checked with a cardiologist. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Jay In Chat Doctor. 