Pain in upper right abdomen

[WomanfromMars]

Hello everyone - first time poster here!

I'm 31 weeks pregnant and for around 2 weeks have been experiencing pain in my upper right abdomen, just beneath my ribs. I've been checked out at hospital - baby is fine, and my blood and urine tests and a kidney/liver ultrasound scan have all come back clear. There are no plans to do any further investigations.

This of course begs the question... what is causing this pain?! I'd rather not have to live with it for the next 9 or so weeks!

It's not just the odd sharp pain, otherwise I would think it's the baby kicking (she's head down). It's more of a constant pain with fairly frequent "attacks" of sharp pain on top of that.

One thing to note is that I had my gallbladder removed in January so I wonder if it's adhesions or something like that... I've done quite extensive research online but I haven't found any answers.

Any thoughts would be very much appreciated! x

Rib flare?? Maybe? Awful.

I was going to say pre-eclampsia as that is a symptom but I assume they checked that. X

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it. I actually think it could be rib flare (I’d never even heard of it!) x

I had this when I was pregnant with my DTs. It was bloody agony, at one point it felt like I was being stabbed repeatedly. I remember they gave me painkillers which I took for a week which was glorious, but they never diagnosed it (think they said it was an infection or something like that). Dd used to live in my ribs though. I ended up with severe pe at 36 weeks.

If you swell abnormally with water retention definitely get checked out. My only real at home symptom was this (was so bad I couldn’t even bend my legs) and I called triage as it was a bit unusual but I wasn’t really that concerned. Two days later my babies were in my arms!