10 Liver Pain – Causes & Location

10 Liver Pain – Causes & Location

Liver is large and vital organ in your body. Liver pain is became very common in people and the causes and location different in different people. Depending on the cause, a liver that hurts may show up as pain in the front center of your belly, in your back, or even your shoulders.

Here is some causes of liver pain;

Viral Hepatitis

Viral hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver. The three most common types are hepatitis A, B, and C. They’re caused by different viruses that infect your liver. It can cause pain in the upper right side of your belly, where your liver sits. Other signs of hepatitis include dark-colored pee, yellow skin or eyes (known as jaundice), tiredness, nausea, or vomiting. Learn more about the types of viral hepatitis.

Alcoholic Hepatitis

Alcoholic hepatitis happens when too much alcohol overtaxes and inflames your liver. Pain from alcoholic hepatitis may make your abdomen feel tender. You also likely will lose weight and your appetite, be nauseated, run a low-grade fever, and feel tired and weak. Read more on alcoholic hepatitis.

Fatty Liver Disease

Too much weight, diabetes, or a high-cholesterol diet can make too much fat build up in your liver. Over time, that can scar your liver and keep it from doing its job. Fatty liver usually causes no symptoms. But it can make you tired or give you a constant dull pain either in the right upper part of your belly, or all over it. Learn about diet and lifestyle changes that can help fatty liver disease.

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome is a rare condition in women that causes sudden, severe pain in the upper right section of your belly that might spread to your arm and shoulder. It’s a bacterial infection. It inflames the tissues around your liver (your doctor might call this perihepatitis) and can affect the lining of the stomach. You’ll also often have fever, chills, headache, and feel ill. Find out more on Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome.

Liver Abscess or Cyst

A bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection in your liver can form an abscess, or a pocket of pus. The top right side of your abdomen may be tender. Your doctor may be able to feel that your liver is enlarged. Usually, you’ll also have fever and chills.

Cysts are also pockets of fluid, but they aren’t usually infected. If they are large, they may make you uncomfortable, mostly because you’ll feel “full” in your abdomen. Cysts sometimes can bleed, which can cause sudden, severe pain in your upper right belly and shoulder. Learn about polycystic liver disease symptoms, causes, and treatment.

Budd-Chiari Syndrome

Budd-Chiari Syndrome is an uncommon disorder resulting from a narrowing of the veins that let blood and fluid drain from your liver. It can be caused by blood clots and swelling in your liver. Often, it’ll make the top right side of your belly hurt.

Portal Vein Thrombosis

Your portal vein is the vessel that brings blood to your liver from your intestines. But if a blood clot blocks the vein, you may feel sudden pain in the upper right part of your abdomen by your liver. You also may have swelling in your belly and a fever. Learn more about the different types of blood clots.

Liver Injury

Your liver may get injured after accidents, falls, and other trauma. If your liver is bleeding, you’ll usually have pain and tenderness in your abdomen and right shoulder. You may also have signs of shock from blood loss.

Liver Cancer

You normally won’t have any pain until your liver cancer has advanced to later stages. Once you do start to hurt, it can show up anywhere from your abdomen to your shoulder. Your doctor may be able to feel a lump by pressing on the right side of your belly. You may also lose weight, feel itchy, have yellow skin or eyes, have a swollen stomach, and feel sick. Find out more on symptoms of liver cancer.

Gallstones

Your gallbladder is located right underneath your liver. So gallstones — digestive juices that harden into nuggets — can cause pain that you might mistake as coming from your liver. You may have sudden pain that gets worse quickly. Gallstone pain may be located in the center or right side of your upper abdomen, between your shoulder blades, or in your right shoulder. See a picture of what the gallbladder looks like.

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