Left side or right side?

[buttER]

Hi everyone

When you write something like "pain in the lower right quadrant", is that your right side, or the right side when someone looks at you?

Just checking we are not taking different sides!

 

[Cross-stitch gal]

I would think if I tell you it's my right side, facing you would be my right and your left.

 

[Cat-a-Tonic]

^What Cross-stitch said. My right side - the side that's attached to my right arm and my right leg. But if there's any question when you're describing your pain to your doctor, you could always point to the area where your pain is, too. My LRQ pain is always in the same spot, I could draw you a map. Maybe I should just get a tattoo over where my pain spot is! "X marks the spot!"

 

[2thFairy]

The doctor identifies the pain according to where YOU feel it, so if you feel it on the right side, it is a right-sided pain.

 

[2thFairy]

(and if it is a butt pain, it is a pain in the ass!)

 

[buttER]

^What Cross-stitch said. My right side - the side that's attached to my right arm and my right leg. But if there's any question when you're describing your pain to your doctor, you could always point to the area where your pain is, too. My LRQ pain is always in the same spot, I could draw you a map. Maybe I should just get a tattoo over where my pain spot is! "X marks the spot!"

Now I know where your LRQ pain is. But I like the idea of a tattoo just to be sure.

 

[buttER]

(and if it is a butt pain, it is a pain in the ass!)

:ylol:

No need to worry about left or right there.

 

[JenS]

My right. For the first 10 years it was always lower right plane… But the past two few years it's upper right pain