7 Reasons Why That Ache Under Your Right Ribs Isn’t “Just Your Age”

The Problem: It’s not sharp. It’s a dull, heavy ache just under your right ribs, usually after a meal or in the evening. You press on it, it doesn’t really hurt, so you call it wind or a pulled muscle and get on with your day.

The Truth: Put your hand there. That’s your liver, the largest organ inside your body. It has no pain nerves of its own, but when it’s under strain it can swell, the capsule around it stretches, and that can feel like exactly this: a dull, heavy pressure. And there’s a reason it took this long to notice.

The Problem: Most people with a fatty liver feel nothing for a long time. Liver UK says 80% of people with the more serious form (MASH) don’t know they have it. It’s usually found by accident, during a blood test for something else.

The Fix: Don’t wait for a letter from the surgery. If there’s already an ache, your liver has been working overtime for a while, and the smartest time to support it is now, while it’s still a niggle. Which is why the other signs you’ve been brushing off matter too.

The Problem: Women who describe this ache almost always mention the rest: bloated after every meal, “seven months pregnant by 8pm”, tired for no reason, foggy by mid-afternoon. On their own, each is easy to blame on age or hormones.

The Truth: Together, they point to one organ struggling to keep up. Your liver makes the bile that helps you break down fat, and it has a hand in how steady your energy feels. “It’s your age” isn’t an answer. It’s a shrug.

The Problem: After the menopause, fat moves to the middle, and some of it settles in the liver, even if you barely drink. Up to 1 in 5 people in the UK have a fatty liver. Most are told little more than “lose a bit of weight”.

The Fix: This isn’t a drinker’s problem. It’s a midlife one, and it needs daily support, not another diet every January. So the question isn’t whether to support your liver. It’s with what, and at what dose.

The Problem: Milk thistle has been the go-to liver herb for centuries, and most of us have a tub somewhere. But a typical one-a-day capsule holds 300 mg of extract at 80%: about 240 mg of silymarin, the active part. Plenty of tubs don’t even print the percentage.

The Truth: The full dose is 480 mg of silymarin a day, twice what most capsules give you. If you’ve tried milk thistle and felt nothing, that’s usually why. It wasn’t you, and it wasn’t the plant. It was the amount.

The Problem: Detox teas, juice cleanses, charcoal, another tub with a bigger number on the front. Most women try a handful of things for the ache and the bloating, and none of them fixes the dose.

What Veyola Does: Two capsules hold 600 mg of milk thistle extract standardised to 80%, so 480 mg of silymarin a day, with seven supporting ingredients, each printed with its dose on the back of the pouch. Two capsules with your breakfast tea. No detox, no diet, nothing else to change.

What Women Say: On UK health forums, women describe it in almost the same words. “My symptom was pain. A dull achy pain on the right under my ribs.” Another: “It feels like my liver is struggling.”

The Verdict: If that sounds like you, start with the full dose. One pouch on its own is too short to judge, so Buy 2, Get 1 Free gives you time enough to feel the difference in your evenings. Take it every day for 30 days, and if it wasn’t worth it, you get your money back.