After Christmas I started getting an odd dull pain on and off around the bottom front of my right ribs. From then it seems to be becoming more persistent and I can feel it in my back too, not a sharp pain but noticeable. The last week I have developed diarrhoea every morning and have to run 3-8 times to the toilet before I head to work. After that no diarrhoea although the rib pain is still there. Tmi although it is brown it is like an orangey/brown at times. My urine is a normal colour and appetite fine although the stress is making me eat less.
I'm freaking out this morning about my liver. I have a reflux disorder so have been on ppis for 16years and the last year a very strong dose along with a strong dose of ranitidine. I do drink more than I should at times at the weekends but do take stretches of months off it sometimes.
Have an appointment this friday with the gp but it seems a long way off to be worrying myself sick about this. My aunt died of liver failure a few years back, although she was an alcoholic who drank every day, so it's petrifying me even more having been in the hospital with her. Is gallstones always a sharp pain? Never thought I'd be hoping for them rather than the other option.