Hi, everyone! I'm new here, and stumbled across this forum while researching liver pain. For a few days now I've had a sore upper right flank, radiating around to the kidney area. It feels like something is swollen in there when I press on it. I also feel a bit like I have a bug or something. Here's the background...
I have been a drinker off and on since my late teens, (late 40's now), with many years of hardly any drinking or no drinking at all. Recently, having lost 3 jobs in the last 6 years (layoffs), I was hitting the wine quite a bit. About one bottle to a bottle and half, three or four days a week. A few months ago, I stopped that, and only drank once every five or six days, same amount, when I called my mother. For some reason I can't talk to my mother without drinking first. She stresses me out. Anyhoo...Two days before I noticed the pain I had done the bottle and half routine, and that's the last time I had a drink. It's been 7 days and I don't want to drink now ever again. I'm really scared something is wrong with my liver or some other organ. I don't have any money for doctors, and no insurance, so I can't get it checked out, and quite frankly, I would like my "numbers" to go down before anyone tested me for anything, although I doubt they are that bad, but who knows. I should add I don't have a fever or vomiting or anything else...I had initially thought it was a kidney infection, but haven't developed any other symptoms at all.
I live alone and don't have anyone close in this area, and I'm just wondering if anyone has had these symptoms? I think what I did was considered "binge" drinking, right? I just want it to be over. I won't be drinking again, ever.
Thank you in advance. This forum is really amazing! I'm going to refer a friend of mine who almost lost her life at 44 from cirrhosis. Unfortunately, she is drinking again, here and there, and I'm afraid she won't make it.
I have been a drinker off and on since my late teens, (late 40's now), with many years of hardly any drinking or no drinking at all. Recently, having lost 3 jobs in the last 6 years (layoffs), I was hitting the wine quite a bit. About one bottle to a bottle and half, three or four days a week. A few months ago, I stopped that, and only drank once every five or six days, same amount, when I called my mother. For some reason I can't talk to my mother without drinking first. She stresses me out. Anyhoo...Two days before I noticed the pain I had done the bottle and half routine, and that's the last time I had a drink. It's been 7 days and I don't want to drink now ever again. I'm really scared something is wrong with my liver or some other organ. I don't have any money for doctors, and no insurance, so I can't get it checked out, and quite frankly, I would like my "numbers" to go down before anyone tested me for anything, although I doubt they are that bad, but who knows. I should add I don't have a fever or vomiting or anything else...I had initially thought it was a kidney infection, but haven't developed any other symptoms at all.
I live alone and don't have anyone close in this area, and I'm just wondering if anyone has had these symptoms? I think what I did was considered "binge" drinking, right? I just want it to be over. I won't be drinking again, ever.
Thank you in advance. This forum is really amazing! I'm going to refer a friend of mine who almost lost her life at 44 from cirrhosis. Unfortunately, she is drinking again, here and there, and I'm afraid she won't make it.
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