STABBING rib pain in right side

anyone else get this?!

This is my 2nd pregnancy (my son turns 8 tomorrow, so it's been years in between) and I had NEVER experienced this when preg with him. It feels like my rib is going to pop out the side of my body it hurts so bad!!

I JUST turned 18 weeks today and it's been going crazy OFF/ON all day long, even extending around to the back a bit under my shoulder blade. Feels like a knife being stabbed and twisted under my ribs.

Sounds like a gall bladder attack.

had TERRRRIBLE rib pain my entire pregnancy with my son..car rides were the worst! i'd have to stand up for a while to help it go away

Quoting October2011:" had TERRRRIBLE rib pain my entire pregnancy with my son..car rides were the worst! i'd have to stand up for a while to help it go away"

That's where it's been happening, in the car.. I have been driving the majority of the day but the pain ALWAYS occurred in the car and never while up and about.

I had horrible pain to in my ribs constantly had my hand up my shirt pushing on them....sucked but went away thank god after i had my son...I only felt ok when laying a certain way on the couch.

Im guessing it's not that uncommon then, i really don't think it's my gall bladder though.. Maybe it's just everything stretching?!

ive heard people put tennis balls behind their back where the pain is and leaning on it to alleviate the pain..i never did this but sometimes i'd make a fist and lean on that..so maybe it does help.

Quoting October2011:" ive heard people put tennis balls behind their back where the pain is and leaning on it to alleviate the pain..i never did this but sometimes i'd make a fist and lean on that..so maybe it does help."

i'll make a fist and stick my thumb out and push REALLY hard against it, usually loosens a knot up or something but this is pretty wide spread. Doesn't help that I have scoliosis/ddd/arthritis lol... my back is a mess to begin with.

Quoting T-jay_SSW:" i'll make a fist and stick my thumb out and push REALLY hard against it, usually loosens a knot up ... [snip!] ... but this is pretty wide spread. Doesn't help that I have scoliosis/ddd/arthritis lol... my back is a mess to begin with."

i have scoliosis too! lol i feel your pain! Don't worry.that baby is worth it! Good luck momma!

Quoting T-jay_SSW:" anyone else get this?! This is my 2nd pregnancy (my son turns 8 tomorrow, so it's been years in between) ... [snip!] ... even extending around to the back a bit under my shoulder blade. Feels like a knife being stabbed and twisted under my ribs."

I have had it most this pregnancy and im almost 38 weeks! But when i stand up it get better! My oldest daughter i had the same thing its just baby kicking you is what my doc said and if i push where it hurts sometimes it gets her to move for little while

yeah I get it too. At first my dr said it indigestion but I knew it couldnt be. So she said it is that your bodys stretching there to make room for your bodys organs that baby is moving out of the way and up into your chest. So it hurts cuz ur organs arnt really soposed to be up there all cramed! Lol.... Ur still pretty early tough so u might have a good size baby growing in there!

i had the same pain and i was told it was just my baby growing and things changing well it turns out it was my gall bladder i would get it checked out before it gets as bad as it was for me they almost took my baby at 35 weeks because of it i now have to have two more surgerys after my baby is born i already had one to put a stent in at 35 weeks the stones got stuck and was shutting down my liver and the pain you just discribed is the pain i was having for 3 months and they didnt catch my gall bladder problems until i was in extreme pain for over 24 hours and my liver was almost shut down so dont put it off as the baby is moving or growing pains because gall stones are very common in pregnancy

and i just turned 18 as well and i would of never guessed it being my gall bladder but it is and i was told it was inflamed cartilage, bruced ribs, growing pains and more for three months until the last time i went in and trust me you dont want to wait and believe that its growing pains like i did because thanks to the drs not knowing what it really was it almost cost my baby to be born early and it has cost me three surgeries and months of pain when i first got the pain it only lasted for an hour the first time and every time after that the pain lasted longer until it wouldnt go away and the pain meds they could give me didnt do anything for me so like i said i would go in and they will do an ultra sound on your side to check for gall stones and the reason im so set on it being your gall bladder is because the right side under the ribs is wear your gall bladder is if it was the baby it wouldnt be only on your right side and my pain wrapped all the way to my back

Quoting Jennifer Lynn Cottingham:" I have had it most this pregnancy and im almost 38 weeks! But when i stand up it get better! My oldest ... [snip!] ... thing its just baby kicking you is what my doc said and if i push where it hurts sometimes it gets her to move for little while"

Im only 18 weeks so i dont think it's the baby kicking me yet, but it does kick high so i know im in for some rib kicks in the near future..

I hated when people told me it was the baby kicking cuz it wasn't when the baby kicked me in the rib I wanted to cry that was an even worse pain cuz I was already in pain!