About gall stones

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• 1 Bernie Magaly // Aug 22, 2007 at 2:23 pm

  When I had my one and only GB attack, I hurt from my breastbone on down, right
  side, left side and down to the abdomen. I was very tender to the touch also.
  If you question a pain on just your left side, perhaps you should discuss this
  with your doctor.
  Amber
  I know the gallbladder is on the right side, but has anyone had pain
  under the left lower ribcage as well? I wondering if that is related
  to some gallbladder pain I have experienced in the past.
  .

• 2 Bernie Magaly // Aug 22, 2007 at 10:16 pm

  Also something to try - sometimes something as simple as a gas pill will help.
  Amber
  Thank you, Amber. I will check with my doctor.
  Julie
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• 3 Bessie Suellen // Aug 23, 2007 at 3:24 am

  Your spleen is under the left rib cage. Mine enlarges when I have some
  kind of infection or need to cleanse. It feels like a ball under my
  ribs especially when I lay down. I have not been able to let any touch
  my sides for many years due to gallbladder and spleen issues. It can be
  checked for size on an ultrasound. My haematologist said that the only
  thing he could do was take it out and since it did not appear to be a
  lymphoma he said to wait and see. They can not seem to do any tests on
  it before hand other than checking it’s size, that I am aware of. It
  was noticed 10 years ago whenI had my fisrt gallbladder atack. Once
  they told me it was there, I remember feeling the ball under my ribs
  since I was at least a teenager. I can feel this ball come and go and
  it coincides with how I am feeling.
  G Murray

• 4 Matthew Kyle // Aug 28, 2007 at 5:47 am

  Hi G,
  The spleen is a lymph and immune organ. It is quite important. We can
  live without it if it is damaged beyond repair as in an auto wreck or the like.
  Because of it’s makeup a ruptured spleen can kill you…quick. However the
  standard on this has changed very recently. Up until just a few years ago the
  standard would be removal with virtually any type of rupture because of the
  above danger. It is now recognized to be able to repair to a great extent. The
  standard now is a wait and see approach and only remove if problems arise. When
  it swells it is usually a sign of some type of immunal response such as
  infection or, and DO NOT be worried about this, cancer present somewhere.
  Swollen lymph nodes in the neck a good example of an identical process. If you
  have had chronic spleen inflammation at one time or another you most likely had
  some type of chronic infection at that time. It is supposed to swell! It is
  dealing with it’s role in the immunal response. Chinese medicine considers the
  energetic to be the “governor of digestion”. This energetic encompasses much
  
  more than just the visceral organ itself, but exemplifies it’s importance. My
  suggestion would be to find a good TCM practitioner in your area since they hold
  the importance of such in high regards and can be very successful.
  This area is also the area of the splenic flexure of the colon and is a
  high incidence area for dysfunction of such. It is kind of a “gore point”
  (traffic constriction) of the colon. If there is prolapsing of the colon this
  angle at the bend becomes steeper and it therefore becomes more prone to
  problems as well. Pain in this area is usually colon related, not spleen. -D

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