I feel something under my left ribcage

Costochondritis is another possibility which is inflammation of the ribcage. I have had this condition and it can come and go throughout the day. I had it for three months My doctor diagnosed it without a scan and told me it would clear the following month which it did. I was recommended painkillers and to wait it out. In the end, by the time I went to the doctor the pain was much better and I didn't need painkillers. It can be caused by stress and your surgery I would imagine would trigger stress.

thanks for the reply. It doesn't seem like costochondritis since there is no pain when i press down on it. and replying to your other comment, I did inform the ER doctor that I had a recent appendectomy, he prescribed me PEG3350 and said it was most likely constipation.

another update: the muscles around the left side of my abdomen feels very sore, and when i stretch upwards i feel tight knots around my stomach area, if that helps.

Was the medication prescribed to you a painkiller? It sounds like you are suffering from post op pain from what you are describing in your update. You may be getting referred pain coming from the appendectomy site. Abdominal surgery can damage surrounding nerves and cause neuralgia or IBS. Doctors don't like to admit that their treatments can cause complications. It really doesn't sound like constipation since you are regularly moving your bowel. You would know if it was constipation if you were having trouble passing stools, not passing them at all, or passing hard pellet like motions. You can get abdominal pain and nausea and the feeling of stools backing up in your anus. However, these symptoms would pass once you started to move your bowel again. It doesn't sound like you are experiencing these classic symptoms. Since, the pain is still there after passing regular bowel movements, it sounds like something else such as post op pain. I would see a different doctor and discuss the possibility of post op pain.

i was severely constipated and i did not feel it in my anus. forgive me but i could feel it in the area of my pelvic bones up to my rib cage but i had severe chronic constipation. us

I have never heard of this before. It sounds as if you are having referred pain from your constipation. These parts of the body/organs are very close to each other and pain in one organ can radiate pain to organs nearby. When I have severe constipation, I get abdominal pain, the feeling of stools being backed up in my anus and nausea or lack of appetite. I never get referred pain from it. However, everyone experiences these things differently.