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Left Upper Quadrant Pain

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ermintrudee
ermintrudee

Hello, just curious as to if anyone else has had this and what it could possibly be!

It started 7 months ago whilst trying to sleep I got a sharp stabbing in my left upper quadrant/chest, and breathlessness going up just one flight of stairs - which got worse then next day after some exercise, I was away from home and called 111 who said I needed to go to hospital, originally though it was a heart attack, soon realised it wasn't (thank goodness, I'm only 23!) then decided it could be a pulmonary embolism, to which I was sent for CT Scans and put on heparin for a week, results came back negative, and that was it, they wrote me off.

So a few days later, I had to ring back up as the pain was still there and just as bad - back to hospital and again passed off as pelurisy this time even though my lungs were clear as anything!

Got back to my Doctor at home, who for 4 weeks kept saying pleurisy and putting me on different medications, which none helped. Then decided to refer me to a respiratory doctor, who found out I was Vitamin D Deficient and that was probably causing my pain - 3 months worth of tablets later I am still in the pain, if not more pain than before.

I'm now getting tests done for Tachycardia and Hypertension but apart from that I am clueless and left in pain sad

Also turns out I have a 3.5 cm cyst on my spleet, and another one somehwhere in my body that is 5cm (not sure where though!)

If anyone has had/has the same please let me know, I am curious to know if other people have gone/are going through what I am.

 

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  • aidin299
    aidin299 ermintrudee

    Posted

    In such cases , topology of pain is very crucial. A cyst in spleen doesnt relate to it. There are two main diagnosis here ;

    1- Aortic insufficiency , which needs special tests to exclude , including heart perfusion scan . Aortic dissection is less probable.  

    2- upper rib problems in sport injury .this often can be seen by a good CAT scan and succesfully treated by NSAIDs or rarely local injections.

    tendonit or bursitis are well treatable like this. 

    Best regards,

    Dr. Aidin 

    • ermintrudee
      ermintrudee aidin299

      Posted

      Not had any injury - especially sports, I'm awfully lazy! 
    • aidin299
      aidin299 ermintrudee

      Posted

      So do an Aortic angiography , or intra esophagus echo or heart catheter. 

      It seems to be a left chamber disorder. 

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