Perimenopause gave me a break for a week but back with pain and discomfort under right breast ribcage . Im also having muscle tightening in my back, both ribcage and and back are painful at times. Has anyone else experience this?
Usually I have left side issues, but this week I’ve had pain in my right rib cage as well. First I noticed when I was sleeping, it hurt to breathe in my back on the right. And then I had pain in the front right as well. Of course my first thought was blood clot, especially since I started the progesterone this week. Why does the worse case scenario always enter my mind first? Anyway, after four days it went away. And I’m still here, so guess it was nothing. The pain has now migrated back to my left side next to my shoulder blade, that’s usually where it is.
Seems like this week has been very bad for so many of us, maybe it was the moon?
I can just imagine how miserable that is 😢😢. I haven’t had the rib cage issue knock on wood, but for about two weeks i have had this feeling in my back mostly on the middle that aches, it’s tight and has a burning feeling. Hope you feel better soon.
yep! i cannot believe how relieved i was when i found others aches were similar! hurt to get a good breath sometimes. once thought it was kidney stone because of flank pain. was gas! you have to laugh at it sometimes or you’ll go nuts.
I have this all the time caused me so much stress but it is all down to menopause I have aches in shoulder blades neck and radiates through breast and ribs I thought lung but I have recently stop progesterone as I tolerant and pain all better it is scary though as I thought from internal organs all ache pain on menopause in upper back xx
So the pain went away when you stopped the progesterone?
Yes pretty much it has I do see a oestepath physio have done for many years you do get ache pains in menopause but progesterone was like having flu , feel great on oestrogen testogel progesterone devil for me but may have to take every few months depending on thickness of uterus.
i am working with a very professional consultant and he said he like a challenge so we hopefully get there x
That sounds like gallbladder, which is located there. One thing that's helped me with that pain, which can radiate to the shoulder and around to the back, is artichoke supplement. Helps increase flow of bile.
Was told gallbladder not working and doc of course just wanted to take it out, then I took this supplement, repeated test for gallbladder function, and it was normal.
Doctor Berg online also has an excellent supplement for the gallbladder and informative videos. All the doctors who seem to know anything about the body and how to fix it seem to be online now.
Hope this helps.
I was thinking about getting it again bc I get the bloating and constipation.
Had one margarita last night, and feel like my tummy is paying for it this morning.
Mary, I kind of feel I have just posted the same kind of thing you are experiencing. I will forward my query and perhaps let me know if we are on the same page ?
Victoria 😂😂
It won’t allow me to copy. So I will tell you what I have asked :-
I am 48 and def Perimenopausal I have the obvious systems I.e erratic periods. This has been going on for near on two years. I haven’t had a period since February and then this week I had the period cramps and I kind of thought something was lurking!!! Monday morning I had a very light brown and that’s it for 2 days but the pain in those 2 days was off the scale. The usual cramps but the pain in my back down one side sort of near the kidney area and not sure if this is unusual but horrible pain in my private directly underneath like a stabbing pain. Enough to wake me up and have me rolling around in agony. Then that went after 2/3 days but it was always very light brown blood. Then today the cramps have come back and the pain above and it is so so bad. But no bleeding but I feel like if I could bleed normal I.e red blood the pain would ease. So at the moment as I write this I have the awful one side back pain and the horrible pain underneath my private. Has anybody else had this ?? Thank you victoria 😂😂
Victoria, does it feel.like cramp, tightening pain? Ive had this type before and it would always be in my back. A pain so awful that i would literally cry. At the time , i didnt know that yes it was menstrual cramps ..when my.period would finally.come down the pain would decrease. I would literally pray for my period to.get relief from it. I would get the pain in the private on and off. It just dawn on me that this is ovulating time so it explains why im aching so much. My symptoms always seem to increase around this time until a period flows..
Hi Mary, it’s the usual cramping pains in my tummy associated with my period but it’s the pain in the right side right around the kidney area and real pain right underneath my private. It’s terrible. If I hadn’t had the period pains a few days ago and the tiny bit of brown blood I would have thought it was my kidney stones as I suffered from these a few years ago. The pain is that bad it woke me up and I was rolling around in pain. Then the brown went a day or so ago and then today the period cramps the pain around my back one side again and the real sharp pain in my private right underneath. Mine def isn’t ovulating pain I used to get that when I was regular and that was more of a stitch type pain but this is different. I keep checking thinking I must have come on but nothing just the pain. My last period in February started like this. Brown very light for a couple of days then a few days later more like a red period. I think if I remember I had pain similar to this but not as bad. It’s just so painful mary and wish if I was going to come on I just would. I can kind of understand the back pain but it’s the stabbing pains in my private i wondered if was normal xx 😂😂😂
Victoria you may need to get it checked out just to be on the safe side. I know with my ovulating pain , i have never experienced this type of pain but its not a stinging type its a dreadful tightening crampy type. So with peri, i think the pain could be totally different from our regular menstrual cycles. But to calm your mind, you may need to get it checked.
Thank you Mary. I thought that. I wish you better x
Sounds like your gallbladder is inflammed. You should have a check up, your gp should send you for a scan to see if you have gallstones. If its any consolation, I had mine removed by keyhole surgery and went home at teatime. Was back at my desk the following week. Hope you get on ok x
I had my gb removed, but it solved nothing unfortunately. I still get that pain.
I think the artichoke treatment sounds interesting.
Thank you for your responses. I suffer from kidney stones and although the pain was familiar to that it wasn’t as bad because that is truly unbearable. I had a big op for them a couple of years ago. The show has stopped but still got heavy tummy ache and back pain and some times that shooting pain right underneath my private. I wonder if I won’t get a proper bleed and the brown was all I am going to get ? X
Yes, Suzanne i think i may try the artichoke. Although, the discomfort is much better, it could have been from just a peri symptom. This is ovulating time for me and i tend to get an increased and weird symptoms anyway. My herbalist always inform me to be careful of letting them take out organs, because most time they can be saved.
Hi Mary, i am so glad i have seen this been having random strange rib cage pains , i am not sure its my bones or skin or behind the ribs. I get it left, then right , sometimes back and sometimes front. I try to ignore it but, my anxiety kicks in. I have occasional spasms in the long muscles in my back but, not often.
Yes I get this all the time menopause xx