The most frequent pain symptoms, it is on the right side, accompanied by pathologic processes in the liver such as hepatitis or cirrhosis. Inflamed liver sensitive to any adverse factors. When your body relaxes during sleep, slowing blood flow and stress on the liver increases, causing pain. In case of violation of the functional state of the liver cannot break, and in the position lying on his right side and other abdominal organs (stomach, intestines) begin a little to put pressure on the liver which causes an acute inflammation and pain.

The presence of gallstones and inflammation of it, that is the cholecystitis, also will not let you sleep on the right side. If you lie in this position, you will provoke the obstruction of outflow of bile in the biliary pathways, and its stagnation exacerbates inflammation and causes a new spasm of pain.


In pathology of the liver and gallbladder sleep on my left side - in this position, the bile ducts work better and easier occurs the blood supply to the liver. If you have cholelithiasis, you can sleep with a warm hot water bottle, gently pressing it to the right quadrant.

To sleep on the right side is impossible because of the pain, if you caught cold the day before - for example, exposed to cold rain or swim in a cool lake. In this case, may develop reactive inflammation in the pleural of the lungs by the type of pleurisy. When right-sided pleurisy you will not be able to sleep on that side because the pericardial fluid that accumulate during inflammation, will put pressure on the pleura and reinforce the pain. In addition to pain symptoms, a strong cough and will increase the temperature.

When the above symptoms need urgent help of a specialist, who will prescribe a course of combined broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Aching pain in the right side can cause osteochondrosis of the cervical or thoracic spine, which presses the nerve on the right side of the spinous processes of the vertebrae. The pain from Boca will be given in the right hand, and sleep on the back or on the other side.

To facilitate resort to the course of physical therapy. Out of aggravation will by using only this treatment by physiotherapy and massage. Syndrome pain will soon go away, but can always be repeated.

If you sleep on the right side that hurts you for the first time and not observed any disease, but before you were involved in a fight or a bad fall, it is worth considering – whether you have broken ribs. An additional symptom of this disease is to limit the expansion of the chest, that is, you will hurt to breathe deeply.

For help, contact your doctor, he will prescribe x-rays of the chest and the appropriate treatment.