Pain in my right side concerns me.

[Speechpat]

For a few months I have been experiencing pain in my upper right abdomen. It comes and goes sometimes it feels like a muscle pull because it goes straight through to my back. Of course I think it something Really bad as I usually do. I also have pain all over my body like muscle ache. I'm so tired of feeling sick all the time.

[Speechpat]

Yes. They did a Ct scan no problems. I had my gallbladder out many years ago so we know it's not that. I had a knee replacement or year and a half ago and have never totally recovered from that. I have a nerve impingement in that leg that they operated on six weeks ago. It helped a little but didn't fix the problem. This constant fatigue and pain wears me down.

[Jeff1943]

I had exactly the same pain in the upper right abdomen, like you had a CT scan (and ultrasound and an endoscopy) and they could find nothing wrong. The gastoenterologist discharged me from her clinic saying it was "muscular-skeletal" and was amazed I was still alive because I've been known to drink a glass of wine or two for 30 years!!!

The CT scan wad reassuring and my GP was absolutely convinced it wasn't my liver. I came to the conclusion it was abdominal wall pain, something that is very common but doctors and specialists don't seem to be very much aware about it.

Then I lost interest in the pain, the CT scan was reassuring, and the pain sort of went. All this was over a period of almost 2 years.

In retrospect I realise the pain began just before a very good friend younger than me died very quickly or prostrate cancer. It was an unexpected loss and quite a shock. I came to the conclusion that in my case the pain in the upper right abdomen (the ascending colon) was a physical expression of grief following the loss of my friend.

[Speechpat in reply to Jeff1943]

Thanks for the reply. I tend to think it is muscular since it doesn't hurt when I lay down or stand up. For some reason pushing on the foot feed of the car always makes it hurt. My son has similar pain and tend to always think the worst. Glad you feel better and hopefully I will too.