Feeling like something gets stuck under rib when bending over eg in forward fold

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It only ever happens in a particular position eg a forward fold in yoga or just now when I was sitting cross legged and folding over to do my bikini line/bits! It began happening after the birth of my second child (which was a section) and it's only ever in that position. It bloody hurts! I have to stretch out straight to make it go away - it feels awful! Can anybody relate?

I get this too! Not often but if i bend it feels like an organ has popped up from my left rib..strange! X

I get this too! It started after the birth of my first child, and only if my body was bent over, like when I used to squeeze into her play tent with her. It was as if something hard was pressing up under the ribs on my left side and it would come on very quickly and be so painful I couldn't breathe, but as soon as I straightened myself out it would go away.

Although now I think of it, it hasn't happened for ages!

Urgh yes this happens to me ever since I had my daughter 3 years ago.
I thought I was the only one so I’m glad I’ve seen this thread

It’s interesting that it seems to be on our left sides

Yes I was thinking that too

Me too. On the right side, where my DD had her legs, constantly pushing on my ribs, for hours and hours, since I was around 7-7.5 months pregnant . Very very rare these days (16 years post birth). But after a few years, I had a few pains on the left too.
I went to the GP when she was around 2 years old, and it was concluded it was a muscle spasm.
I do not think it is a hernia, as we checked it. I keep an eye on it. Have looked at it in the mirror if I master the speed and courage to move while ot happens. It looks like the muscle is strongly contracted. Mine goes away as swiftly as it came, with no residual pain left. I can lift things no problem- which would be an issue with a hernia.
I think you should all go to the GP indeed. You never know.

I get this too! Bending over the bath washing my hair with the shower attachment is pretty much guaranteed to do it!

It feels like an organ has slid up under my ribs. I googled and came up with 'Englarged Spleen' once - but I don't think it is that if we are all getting it.

Yes, this!!!! Although I'm sure this started before DC. What is it?!?!

I have this too, if I'm bending right over to put socks on or something. It's like a jabbing cramp under my left ribs and I have to arch my back (lean backwards) for about 20 seconds to get rid of it. It's so weird.

“Floating rib syndrome” maybe?

Slipping Rib Syndrome. Also called Cyriax Syndrome.

I have been recently given this as a diagnosis after 14 years of pain on my right hand side. I've had everything, scans, ultrasounds, endoscopies, gallbladder out, 24 hr Ph test; all on the NHS and a French Doctor gave me this suggestion in a 10 minute consultation.

You'd need one of the expensive 3d type scans to diagnose, and to be scanned by someone who understand the syndrome.

Basically the lower ribs move about and stick into all sorts of places, and sit on nerves which create intense pain and sometimes get involved with the diaphragm and cause intense waves of pain. It is horrendous.

I have this!!! When I bent down to tie a shoelace, it was as if an organ moved and got jammed on the left side. I had to stretch up both arms high in the air above my head to “put everything back”. My GP thought it was ‘ ‘displaced rib’ and it has receded in recent months.
I wondered if it was because I had an elective Caesar (years ago) or if I’ve put on weight in recent years….

Same here. Left hand side too.
Like something gets trapped under and then slips out from under my bottom left rib. Very briefly very painful.

One child, c-section, 2016.

Yes, I get this too. On my left side. I do think its displacement of the floating rib when pregnant and its left a strained muscle around it or it pinches a nerve. It is very painful when it goes and like others it can only be helped by stretching out. It does feel like a spasm. My last (4th) child was 13 years ago. It has eased a little but I don't think it will ever go away.

I get this too! And you’ve all explained it much better than I could.

Are you hypermobile at all? People with Ehler Danlos syndrome can subluxate a rib and the rib gets a bit stuck.

That's just where the transverse changes to descending colon.

Could just be last night's dinner.

Yes me too! Always when forward folding in yoga

I have this too. Only since having a baby. It feels like a rib gets caught on something.

Me!!! But it feels like I've pulled a muscle when it happens.

Let’s face it, if you’ve had a c-section, they rummage around in there quite a bit.

Before I had mine, the midwife was talking through what I might feel during the procedure. No pain, but a sensation she described as feeling like someone was doing the washing up in your stomach - and she was bloody right! plus I’m assuming they must cut through various muscles etc.

Doesn’t seem unreasonable that things have shifted around in there, might be a bit of scar tissue adhered to another organ, might be a floating rib as pp have said.

mine feels closer to a muscle cramp, and I usually get it when I’ve been sat slightly twisted/awkwardly, and then when I can bear to move, it seems to untwist itself. I’ve had scan etc, but unless it was happening during the actual scan (in which case I’d be screaming) I can sort of understand why nothing shows up.

guess it’s a bit like javelin arse - millions of women get it, if you go the the GP about it you usually get fobbed off - so we’ve never really mentioned it to anyone else, and only now realising how common it is!

How weird. I've just started noticing this a week or so ago. Also LHS and when putting on socks.

I get this too! Only on my left side - it’s like a rib has popped out of place and needs to go back in. Talked to my sister and she gets it too (but our other sister who hasn’t had kids doesn’t get it).

I get this too but in my right side. Sooo uncomfortable when it happens.

I get this, it's a thing apparently but I didn't know why, it feels like cramp inside and only ever on the right hand side. I get it when I drive long distances too but for me I don't think it's birth related as I e only had one child.