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I feel bloated and a "numb" pain on the left abd. side right under the rib cage. the pain irradiates in the left testicle, left thy and left arm pit.
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Need diagnosis: There are several proposed mechanisms for referred pain. Currently there is no definitive consensus regarding which theory may be correct. The cardiac general visceral sensory pain fibers follow the sympathetics back to the spinal cord and have their cell bodies located in thoracic dorsal root ganglia 1-4(5). As a general rule, in the thorax and abdomen, general visceral afferent (gva) pain fibers.
Answered 7/1/2013
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