My hug is mostly on my right side, up under my rib cage. For years it felt like someone squeezing my liver, then it changed to feel like someone tugging my liver. As the years have passed the area has grown side ways, and somedays I get the full frontal treatment, feeling like too tight a band around me, yet it feels like someone is trying to roll my diaphram up and under into my rib cage. roll it like a rug. its painful! I normally get hiccups when I get the hug. I am told the phrenic nerve controls the diaphram so its not surprising.

Xanax took away the panic attack I was having and gave me mild relief
Klonopin gave me relief but kept me awake and aggitated.
Ativan does help, but the next day I feel it again.
I have no desire to go back on gabepentin. i felt horrible on it.

I have days and weeks that can pass by with no word from it, and then...BLAMMO I roll over and its there. it can range in intensity from someone pushing on me or holding a firm hand against me to someone really trying to yank out my liver. I think for a long time the MDs thought I was making it up seeking drugs, till I screamed at one. "did I ASK you for drugs? NO! What I asked for was an answer!" he didnt see me again. Grouch!