How far up does your pain go?

[Mary]

I am having pain on my left side that feels like its under my ribs and on my side. Just wondering if your intestines are up there?

 

[kenny]

Descending colon is the main thing over that way. Ascending is on the right from the Lower right Quadrant where most of us hurt a lot. Transverse runs across your middle back, Ascending down the left and curling up at the bottom toward the sigmoid.

There is a whole pile of small intestine wadded up in between all that, like 20+ feet of it. It's amazing how much is packed up in there!