Age 26. I just had my first baby in September. For the past few weeks, I ve had nausea on and off during the day, I ve had discomfort in my right side, sometimes spreading to my left side and back. And recently mabybe 2-3 times in the past 3 or 4 days I ve experienced a heaviness in my chest . I went to the doctor about 2 weeks ago and told me it could be IBS and did blood work but nothing showed up.
I have Crohn's disease which is an IBD. IBD is different from IBS but similar, IBD can only be determined by a colonoscopy. I am only 19 years old I am also a female and I have experienced pain similar to this. I had the heaviness on my chest, and pain in my upper right side. Turns out your gall bladder is located on the upper right side of your stomach and your pancreas is located in the center of your upper stomach which can feel like pain in your chest. Both of which could all hurt your abdomen intensely if you have gallstones. Gallstones can cause pancreatitis, which in a nutshell is swelling of your pancreas. It just so happens that I had gallstones and pancreatitis. It was relieved by removal of my gallbladder. Just to be safe you might want to go to the local her and get an ultrasound of your gallbladder and have them check your lipase levels.