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Popping under ribs

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01234543210backwards · 30/08/2018 19:05

Does anyone else have this?
I had one vaginal birth, bad tear but no lasting effects.
I had one c section about 2 years ago and ever since I’ve had this problem with something popping out under my rib.
No one seems to know what it is, but when I google this a lot of people with it have had c sections.
Basically (tmi) if I strain while doing a poo and aren’t sat bolt upright, or bend over to do my laces, or am sat on the floor and bend at the waist to reach something it feels like a lump is popping out under my bottom ribs on one side. It is agony and I have to straighten up immediately to feel it pop back in, which relieves the pain.
Everyone I’ve spoken to says unlikely to be hernia as it’s right under my ribs.
It feels like after my c section they put my organs back in the wrong place and something inside me is getting caught on my bottom rib.
It happened today tying my laces and I’m still tender there now.
Any ideas?

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01234543210backwards · 30/08/2018 19:57

Am I the only person with freaky ribs on here?! 😆

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IntergalacticP · 30/08/2018 19:59

Could it be your actual rib popping out of place? DH had a problem with that after a car accident.

01234543210backwards · 30/08/2018 20:03

I really don’t know?!
I’ve not done anything to cause trauma to that area, my c section scar is miles away from the area.
Literally don’t know, but it’s getting more frequent and really starting to do my head in.
I’m in my mid 30s and fear bending over to tie my shoelaces.

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mineofuselessinformation · 30/08/2018 20:07

I still (very rarely, but then the guilty child is now in their twenties) have a rib that folds under another if I bend over too far, too fast.
I blame it on said dc being breech until 38 weeks, with a fondness for rubbing their head along my bottom ribs on that side...
Having said that, I think it's worth getting it checked.

01234543210backwards · 30/08/2018 20:09

This is exactly what it feels like.
The bottom one folding underneath.
Baby 2 was breech too. Not sure how long for, but he was head down at 32 weeks in a scan and surprise breech at my c section, so I reckon the last 8 weeks he may have been breech.

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Grekkie9 · 03/11/2021 18:54

Did you ever find out what this was? I'm having the same problem! X

Kirstyr455 · 03/11/2021 20:45

@Grekkie9 I have the exact same thing happening 19 months after the birth of my second. Vaginally birth. Its so odd. Have you recently given birth?

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