I have random, mild pains in the right side of my abdomen from just below the ribs to roughly my waist. The area of my liver often has the most obvious pain, although it still doesn't so much hurt as 'feel solid' inside me (not when pressed, I'm overweight and it's not easy to apply pressure to internal organs), with a similar sensation running vertically down just right of the navel, and another common area being very low in the abdomen, a horizontal area at about waist level.

I don't know if it's connected, but it occurred only a short time before the abdominal pain; I think I also have a hernia on my right side, just above the hip. My GP dismissed that with "you don't get hernias there", but others to whom I've spoken who've had hernias said the feeling "was like a fish squirming inside for a second" which exactly matches my own experience. Due to the possible hernia and the other abdominal pains happening so soon after one another, I've thought they may be connected (hernia somehow caused the other) but I'm not at all sure about this.

Could anyone shed any light on this, make any suggestion? I have an appointment with another GP, but I'm very stressed about it as it's been going on for 4-6 months now and no one seems to be taking it seriously, and would appreciate any advice.