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I have pain on left side on top of stomach near ribs and it feels like something is there it hurts sitting and standing been 2 weeks what can it be?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Pain: This is the left upper quadrant. That area contains your spleen, colon, kidney, part of your somach, left lower lung and left diaphragm. For someone your age and two weeks of pain I would put a spleen problem likely, (mono?). If you have been having problems for two weeks you need to get checked.

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Answered 9/4/2014

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