Hi Everyone , has anyone ever dealt with pain in the right side rib area after changing diet ? I’ve recently switched to a keto diet and I keep getting a full pain on my right side that comes and goes , overall my blood sugars are good but since diet change this pain has been getting me down , any ideas ? thanks
Hi. Are you on statins?
Hi. Are you on statins?
I get similar pain when constipated coz the lower bowel loops around and when it clogs it can give localized pain behind the stomach. When starting LC especially keto you are advised to increase fluid intake, and also increase electrolytes to help the adjustment during weight loss activity where you tend to lose fluidsThanks for the reply , yeah I think it is the diet change , Eating a lot more healthy fats etc now so just going to monitor it over the next week and seek further advice if it persists
Did you get an answer to this?Hi Everyone , has anyone ever dealt with pain in the right side rib area after changing diet ? I’ve recently switched to a keto diet and I keep getting a full pain on my right side that comes and goes , overall my blood sugars are good but since diet change this pain has been getting me down , any ideas ? thanks
I like your description here - it what I have read too. I was getting an ache under the bottom rhs rib recently, as well as some signs of heart distress. I found out from a blood test that my sodium level was too low which seems to fit in with the heart issues, but the other ache has now gone away. Could have been constipation, or a small stone. but it was just a vague discomfort, not a climb up the wall shrieking pain. My sodium levels have risen a bit too, so I seem to be resolving quite nicely. Was worried it might be kidney failure which would make an operation dicey. ( my kidneys go on strike after any anaesthetic even the contrast dye in the MRI).Did you get an answer to this?
I've been low carb for a couple of years after having gestational diabetes but recently upped the ante and went higher fat /lower carb than I had been, and suddenly I was having this dull ache under my right rib and realised something was going on. Bit of googling uncovers folks talking about having gallbladder attacks after going keto. Some have just the dull pain come and go and I think it could go on for weeks while the gallbladder flushes itself out. But if you have stones in your gallbladder (which apparently are caused from eating sugars and not eating enough fat to keep the thing working, the bile concentrates and becomes stones after a while) then if any of those stones happens to be large enough to block the ducts and you start eating fats again and flush them through, you can end up with a proper gallbladder attack and lose your gallbladder. But I've heard low carb doctors saying that keto is still the better way to address gallbladder issues because the fresh bile helps dissolve the stones slowly - but just to go easy on the fats at first. I'm not sure if an ultrasound can assess our risk of whether any stones present prior to starting keto could block the ducts. I've only been having this pain for a week or so myself but it's got me slightly concerned too.
I like your description here - it what I have read too. I was getting an ache under the bottom rhs rib recently, as well as some signs of heart distress. I found out from a blood test that my sodium level was too low which seems to fit in with the heart issues, but the other ache has now gone away. Could have been constipation, or a small stone. but it was just a vague discomfort, not a climb up the wall shrieking pain. My sodium levels have risen a bit too, so I seem to be resolving quite nicely. Was worried it might be kidney failure which would make an operation dicey. ( my kidneys go on strike after any anaesthetic even the contrast dye in the MRI).
To eat or not to eat Fat is the question. The NHS nutritionista will probably side with the minimal fat brigade for heart health, but there are some who advise differently. The one I follow is Dr Aseem Malhotra, who is a heart consultant at Guildford Surrey hospital who advocates a low-carb version of the Mediterranean diet. He is often on daytime TV to balance up the argument vs the PHE representative. He has published his own book on the diet, which is called the Pioppi diet, named after the Mediterranean town that uses it and has significantly low rates of heart issues in the population. Not pasta, but fish is the major shareholder in the diet. It is noteworthy that Ancel Keys based his early work on this same town but came to different conclusions. But he was not a heart specialist. In fact, he was a zoologist, /He lived in Pioppi from 1858 to 1998 during which time he did the 7 Countries Study. Pioppi is the home to the National Museum of the Mediterranean Diet, but the NHS version is not based on their work because the original diet advocates natural oils and saturated fats,Gosh, it gets scary when your organs start to talk, doesn't it? Especially the heart. When you get heart distress, is it painful or more palpitations? I'm pretty sure I know what kidney aches feel like too and I've had the one recently but mostly after the pain meds for my last c-section.
Are you allowed to eat more fat for constipation? Or is that still contraindicated for heart issues?
To eat or not to eat Fat is the question. The NHS nutritionista will probably side with the minimal fat brigade for heart health, but there are some who advise differently. The one I follow is Dr Aseem Malhotra, who is a heart consultant at Guildford Surrey hospital who advocates a low-carb version of the Mediterranean diet. He is often on daytime TV to balance up the argument vs the PHE representative. He has published his own book on the diet, which is called the Pioppi diet, named after the Mediterranean town that uses it and has significantly low rates of heart issues in the population. Not pasta, but fish is the major shareholder in the diet. It is noteworthy that Ancel Keys based his early work on this same town but came to different conclusions. But he was not a heart specialist. In fact, he was a zoologist, /He lived in Pioppi from 1858 to 1998 during which time he did the 7 Countries Study. Pioppi is the home to the National Museum of the Mediterranean Diet, but the NHS version is not based on their work because the original diet advocates natural oils and saturated fats,
As regards constipation, more fat breeds more bile being passed to the lower colon (gallstones optional) and thus more fibre being broken down to feed the gut fauna and enzymes, thus breaking it up and keeping it moving. Win win IMO.
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