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Celiac Artery Aneurysm: Anyone else with same illness?
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I've posted previously. In Oct of 2017, I was diagnosed with a celiac aneurysm. Originally it was 1.2 and 6 months later was 1.3 and they considered that nothing and probably just the measurer who measured it. I have lots of right rib pain but they say it's not related. So I've gone to a pain specialist and am getting nerve blocks to see if that helps because I have a bad back also. Helped some but still have the scary pain under the top right part of rib by the chest. I'm to go back in a few months to the vascular surgeon. I try to not think about it. I'll keep you updated. My MRI's of my thoracic and lumbar showed nothing. That's good but you'd think since it's by my back it would show up. Does anyone have this sort of unexplained pain?
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My aneurysm is also 1.3. Last summer I had a lot of pain in my right ribs up into my shoulder for several weeks. It passed after a while. I went to see my internist when I had the pain last summer. He is wonderful but he ordered the wrong kind of CT scan and it looked good. I should have gone to my Vascular surgeon. I went to my vascular surgeon for my annual check a couple of weeks ago and he is concerned that this the right side is pain connected to my liver. I had a splenic infarction in 2017 that was caused by a embolism from my celiac aneurysm. He is concerned that I may have had another small infarction to my liver. I am getting a CT scan in a couple of weeks then will meet with him again. I am hoping it is nothing. He noted that right sided pain can be your liver and should be taken very seriously for people who have a celiac aneurysm. For a small aneurysm he says you just watch it. But if I am having more clots that can affect other organs then we will have to consider surgery even though it is small. I can live without my spleen but not without my liver. I hope you see your vascular surgeon soon. Like I said, I should have gone to my Vascular surgeon last summer but on a positive note, I am dealing with it now. If you want I can keep you posted on what I find out.