Disturbance in my side..

[orangeman]

I don't know what's going on but I am about to lose my mind if I can't fix this disturbance in the side of my body. I keep telling my mom I need to see a doctor but she keeps putting it off. So while I wait I'm still wondering about something, it seems to just have started developing. When ever I lay down to go to sleep or just lean my body over I feel a thumping in the left side of my body. I don't want to say it's my lung but I don't know what else it could be. It seems to be inside my rib or something. I don't know what it is but it just feels like a kick or a thumping in my side. Does anyone know what this could be?

orangeman Reviewed by orangeman on 01-19-2007. Disturbance in my side.. I don't know what's going on but I am about to lose my mind if I can't fix this disturbance in the side of my body. I keep telling my mom I need to see a doctor but she keeps putting it off. So while I wait I'm still wondering about something, it seems to just have started developing. When ever I lay down to go to sleep or just lean my body over I feel a thumping in the left side of my body. I don't want to say it's my lung but I don't know what else it could be. It seems to be inside my rib or Rating: 5

[birdgirl73]

Is it your heart beating, Orangeman? Your heart's on the left side of the center of your chest, and when you lean forward or lie on your left side, it's much easier to detect your heartbeat. That's why cardiologists have patients lean forward sometimes to listen to the beat--and why you lie on your left side for an echocardiogram.

[orangeman]

Well I don't think it's high enough to be my heart. I mean the thumping is obviously annoying for me to make a thread about it and usually my heart beat doesn't disturb me, sometimes it hurts though. But this thing is like right near the end of my rib cage on the side. I don't know what it could be . Maybe a tumor..is that possible lol?

[birdgirl73]

Not sure, babe. I think you need to keep bugging your mom about that doctor's appointment, and if she won't listen, just call up the office and go on your own. Start with your GP if you have one.

Tumors don't generally thump, hun. Only hearts do that. Sometimes if you're anxious or your blood pressure is up, you can feel that thumping in your diaphraghm, which is down toward the bottom of your rib cage. "Rebound" heart-thumping (thumping you can feel in other areas than directly where your heart is) is more noticeable in the slender individuals like yourself. The large arteries leading away from the heart like the coronary artery and the aorta, which runs down your chest, also pulse with the heartbeat. You may be feeling that.

[420izzle]

Sounds like Pleurisy to me. Pleurisy is the painful inflammation of the membranes that surround your lungs. The cause can be a number of underlying conditions. I had a bout with bronchitis when I was 11 and developed Pleurisy and have had it ever since. They call it 'devils grip' and it feels like something wicked grabbing your lung in one spot like you describe.

Maybe if you fell to the ground and started bouncing around your mom would be convinced you need a doc visit...
then again, I've noticed you have a handful of ailments , so maybe she'd think you were crying wolf?
Good luck to you.

[birdgirl73]

I've suggested pleurisy before to him. He's generally always concerned aout his chest where he ailments are concerned. The thing that doesn't make me suspicious about pleurisy in this case is that he's not complaining of sharp pain or pain upon inhalation/exhalation. And because he generally tends to develop his complaints when his mind's been concentrating for a bit too long on them. . . .

[mafyew]

how long has it been? could it just be gas?

[orangeman]

how long has it been? could it just be gas?

What kind of gas? Because I don't release any gas when that happens .

[mafyew]

its trapped! but anyways, could have pulled out a lower back muscle, i used to get pain in that area in the summer when i road my bike a lot. Sometimes it was just painful, other times it would throb.

I have had the exact feeling you talked about, it went away after a day or 2, and nothing bad has come of it....yet

[birdgirl73]

Up in the top of your abdomen is a section of your colon called the transverse colon, Orangeman. It runs right under the diaphragm, which is along the bottom of your rib cage. It's the next-to-the-last section of your colon, which seems strange that it's up high there, but it takes a turn and heads downward again before its contents make their exit out of your body. Gas gets trapped in the transverse colon very frequently, especially in the top left corner, which is really called the "splenic flexure" in anatomic talk. There's a little pocket in which you can get gas bubbles and air pockets and feel them up under your ribs. So that's why you might feel pains there from gas and not necessarily feel it like gas that's moving through to be expelled.