Quite often the pain on the left under the ribs is considered a sign of abnormalities in the functioning of the heart muscle and the approaching attack. This is an erroneous opinion, since the syndrome under consideration may indicate a variety of other diseases depending on localization.
Pain on the left under the rib in front
When diagnosing it is important to pay attention to your own feelings. If the discomfort increases during deep breaths, sneezing or coughing, spreads under the scapula or the supraclavicular zone, then, perhaps, these are symptoms of a subdiaphragmatic abscess.
The aching pain on the left under the ribs, accompanied by a feeling of bursting, often characterizes the pre-infarction state. At the same time, it can squeeze the chest, catch one's breath.
If the pain is acute and gives to the anterior part, closer to the epigastrium, most likely there is a relapse of the ulcer of the duodenum or stomach, splenomegaly.
In addition, the symptom may indicate a developing gastritis. More precisely, it is possible to diagnose diseases by means of collecting information and monitoring the accompanying features:
- severe nausea;
- vomiting, after which the pain subsides slightly and the condition improves for a short time;
- increase in temperature;
- lack of appetite or total refusal to eat;
- diarrhea;
- frequent eructations with an acid bitter taste;
- dehydration.
It is important to note that gastritis with a tendency to decreased acidity of gastric juice often provokes oncological neoplasms. Cancer, in addition to sharp, cramping pain (especially during eating), manifests itself in weight loss without apparent causes or changes in diet, anemia, changes in taste preferences, depression, constant weakness and lethargy.
Pain below the ribs at the bottom left
The considered clinical manifestation always arises from the increase and inflammation of the spleen.
Drawing pain on the left under the ribs and a feeling of heaviness below signals a chronic pathology, some of which have a high degree of severity:
- lupus erythematosus ;
- tuberculosis;
- malaria.
In addition, this symptom usually accompanies infectious, septic and hemoblastic pathologies:
- angina;
- bacterial or viral mononucleosis;
- enlarged lymph nodes;
- fever;
- purulent abscess;
- lymphocytic leukemia;
- bacterial endocarditis;
- leukemia;
- lymphoma.
Pain under the ribs on the left behind
With the described symptomatology there are 2 variants of provoking factors:
- kidney disease;
- osteochondrosis.
Acute pain under the ribs to the left, irrigating into the lumbar region, accompanies renal colic, especially if the sensation is almost impossible to tolerate without anesthesia.
Constant discomfort, aching pain, a feeling of heaviness speaks of kidney ailments, because of which the organs increase in size, and their parenchyma becomes inflamed:
- cystitis;
- pyelonephritis;
- uric acid diathesis;
- nephritis.
Also, the pain syndrome is observed in the pathologies of the adrenal glands, benign and malignant
One of the most common symptoms of lumbar osteochondrosis is also severe pain on the left under the ribs, closer to the buttocks. After a person takes a comfortable and motionless posture, the syndrome briefly ceases. At night, this sign is not so pronounced, and the pain is aching, pressing character. If the osteochondrosis is not treated for a long time, the syndrome under consideration is intensified, down to a significant deterioration in the mobility of the femoral joints, the inability to turn the body, the appearance of intolerable pain during lifting additional weight, slopes, and physical exertion.