Right testicle pain associated with right groin discomfort > diagnosed by GP as epididimitis but nothing made it go away permanently. However, when I changed from wearing loose shorts to supportive briefs it seems to have more or less gone (fingers crossed!).
Had hemerroids years ago but now gone but hot chilli can cause equivalent discomfort.
Discomfort in right groin, appendix area and top of right hip, usually present when I wake up, an hour or so before passing a large stool, but then continuing for many more hours. Went from negligible to becoming a regular nusiance after an 'alexander technique' practitioner massaged my right psoas muscle (could be coincidence) > GP's unable to explain and CT scan shows nothing wrong with appendix.
Mild pain/discomfort below left shoulder blade, usually when waking up laying on left side and goes away after getting up > I actually have a kidney stone in my left kidney (been there for 25 years, since my twenties when I ate too many curries) for which I am hopefully getting sorted out soon at hospital. However, the position below my left shoulder blade is much higher than the actual position of my left kidney (I think!).
A tip though - when it is fresh it has a mild sweet taste :-P
When it is not fresh the taste is abominable :O
Good luck, Sky
I am having similar issues and, I also have issues with hip/butt muscle tightness. . .
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I am not a physician, nor do I have any greater formal knowledge about they symptoms that have been described here, beyond what my doctor has shared with me and my own experience. However, I have suffered from/been treated for IBS for as long as i can remember and lower-back pain syndrome for over two decades (I am 42 now). Both of these conditions share common symptoms, since they reside in the same neck of the woods, so to speak, physiologically. The most common shared symptom is radicular pain. That is pain that is triggered one place but felt in another.
Based on my experience(s), I can tell you that, under normal conditions, the large intestine has four (4) major turns (flexures) from the small to the rectum. The first is in the vicinity of your appendix (where they small connects), the second is right around your liver/gal bladder, the third (and normally very problematic and a firm indicator of IBS) is tucked very close to the spleen (Spleenic Flexure often causes radicular pain around the kidneys and lower left back). Finally, the last resides on the lower left side (somewhat lower than the region of the first turn) of your abdomen...last stop before the exit, you might say. All of these turns, save the first mentioned, are hairpin turns. That is to say that anyone cutting in line, or if the surrounding muscles have a tendency to spasm, it's going to cause a flow dilemma. From what I have learned is that most people with IBS have flexures that are even tighter than normal or possibly even having two sides flattened about one another. Further still, the colon can become twisted at these points, which equals "get your butt to the ER...!" Although, as long as anything is moving, then that's not an issue.
Basically, if your abdominals or surrounding muscle tissue spasms, it's comparable to someone's dog going ape on your street; it not only affects the people trying to sleep in the house but jacks up the entire neighborhood and everyone else's dog starts barking. There are a whole lotta nerves right there; pain signals can "radiate" dang near anywhere down the line, including the lower back, groin and testicles, hip, etc., which basically skews treatment cuz you don't really know what's triggering the pain.
If you have just throbbing pain in your lower back just before you KNOW you gotta go, that's just the body's normal way of saying "hey! find a stopping spot and get to the can." However, if 30 minutes to two hours before a successful bm, you are certain that you will either die or are about to give birth to a bouncing baby Pontiac, but are much improved, though rather put out, afterward, then IBS is likely. If, however, you still experience hernia-like symptoms and groin tenderness that is not notably improved anytime afterward (assuming your bowel is well-emptied), then it's time to see the doc, with haste. A tear in that neck of the woods left undiagnosed/treated will result in all sorts of situations, all of which unsavory enough such that your pride would not allow you to openly discuss on this forum.
If it turns out that you do have IBS, then start eating right (pot calling the kettle black, cuz I still don't unless my old lady stands over me), learn to like prunes, drink gallons of fluids, especially if you are on pain management or other narcotics regimen, and have regular colonoscopy's performed more often than typical prescribed. Finally, a total clean out using magnesium citrate or, as we like to call it "the Black Drought," or MasterClense diet or anything that will completely dump your cart now and again can only help improve your quality of life. The best thing to do first is make an appointment with your doc and be honest and precise with your symptoms, and let him take it from there.
Horace