Feeling tight and pain around my right rib, a bit concerned.
Hi there, thanks for your message. I feel for you. xx
As an update - it started just before Christmas 2025, I got little pinpricks in the right rib area and they stayed in the same place, and my bra line got tighter. If I leant against the table it was uncomfortable. This hasn't gone away, has stayed in the same place, and has got much worse - it is now noticeable most of the day every single day, and I also feel it in the left hand rib too, and also as shooting pains up to my neck. I haven't gone yellow yet! But the pain is there. I have had a lot of family things this year, two weddings, two driving tests, the kids moving house, a pregnancy announcement etc, so it just hasn't been the right time to share it. 
It has now been therefore about 7 months since I first noticed the pain, and I feel it now pretty much all day, (although there are some days when it is a bit less noticeable) when I hang up washing, when I lean forward, when I lean back too, onto a hard chair, when I twist around sometimes, etc.
The worst thing is, I went to Moorfields 2 weeks ago for my 2 year check, and as per usual I saw a 'substitute' doctor, and after the usual tests (I had brachytherapy 2 yrs ago) she gave me about 5 minutes. My tumour is the same size pretty much that it always was before the treatment, but I mentioned it to her, and she completely brushed me off and said "It won't be your liver, it's most likely your gallbladder" so I left feeling like an idiot! (My tumour was quite shallow, but was 9mm x 9mm at the base.)
I went home and researched liver pain as opposed to gallbladder, and it definitely isn't my gallbladder, as that apparently takes years to get irritable and inflamed and it usually presents as sudden and intense pain, more in the centre of your abdomen, (my pain is quite far round to the right, and also far left, and also right up under my ribs) and especially always after eating high-fat meals. People apparently often go to A & E because they think it is a heart attack. Mine is nothing like that. It is constant, (and growing weekly) and eating doesn't change it, and it is sometimes sharp, and sometimes dull, but always in the same places. I feel it when I wake up and when I go to sleep, I feel it after eating and/or before, and it is not so intense that I am in terrible pain suddenly, it is not a tummy ache!
The other thing is that I looked up "Can you feel an enlarged liver (like from mets) from the outside?" (Because in Jan and Feb and March, I couldn't, but now if I press a little under my right rib, when lying down, and I breathe in, I now clearly feel a 'rolling' sensation of something quite big moving and rolling under my hands.) I read that this should not happen, and that the liver is usually well hidden under the ribs, even on breathing in. This is not what an irritable gallbladder presents as I don't think, as the gallbladder is hidden inside/under the liver and is pretty small. And I have only had this in the last month or so.
I hope I haven't worried you, but if you are like me, I feel that information helps us all, and as there are so few of us, we often get brushed off with not much info at all!
Have you had liver scans up until now regularly since the proton beam therapy?
They didn't biopsy mine and I don't get scans, as they said it was on the borderline for such. (That was also Moorfield's decision!) But I read somewhere that without scans and a biopsy, they don't know whether mine is high risk for metastasis or not!
So I don't think the doctors should really be ignoring my symptoms, especially when the two to two and a half yr mark after treatment is supposed to be the prime 'median' time for mets to show itself??!
Please let me know how things go for you and what happens, and are your symptoms the same and how long have you had them? (If you didn't mind.)
Take care,
xx
