Burning pain in rib cage/upper back

[Nichola2310]

On a few occasions now I have felt burning pain start in my upper back in the evenings which progressively gets worse. If I take an ibuprofen and 2 cocodamol 30/500 I can eventually drift of to sleep and it's gone in the morning.

I have a 2 month old baby so each time it's happened I've put it down to rocking/feeding the baby or wearing her in a carrier, and have been very mindful to stop things that I think might be causing it.

The last 2 days I've done none of those things excessively but the pain started about 10pm tonight. I've taken an ibuprofen and 2 cocodamol 30/500 yet the pain is still awful and I haven't slept a wink.

It's hard to describe whether it's just in my upper back or my ribcage but I think ribcage. It's a burning pain.

I was going to speak to my GP last week but because I don't have it every night I didn't like to. Of course now they're closed to Wednesday.

Has anyone had anything like this? I'm waiting on the water to heat up so I can have a bath and see if that helps. I can't take any more pain relief for 90mins and I have the baby and a 3 year old to be fit for tomorrow.

Call 111.
That’s always the first and best thing to do. No-one here should be giving out medical advice. This could be a number of things and 111 will help advise how soon it should be investigated.

That sounds very much like the pain I experienced with gallstones. I would absolutely persevere with a GP appointment as soon as you can.

If you get yellow mucous membranes then you need A&E.

In the meantime gaviscon may be your friend

@ThesecondLEM you might be spot on. I rang urgent care yesterday but was told I wasn't urgent. Had to battle to get a GP appointment today and she took one look at me and sent to A&E. looks like I'll be here for hours, it's packed.

Hope you are ok, did the gp have any suggestions of what it could be.

@KittenCatcher thank you, she thinks a gallbladder infection.

Oh dear that can be painful. You poor thing. I hope you get seen and start treatment soon.

Ouchie - do push for removal. In the mean time you need to seriously restrict your fat consumption. That was generally the only thing that helped while I was waiting to get my bastard thing out

@ThesecondLEM great news, it's out!!!! One particular surgeon who saw me wanted to take it out because of my age (late 30's). I'm so grateful as I know the hospital is completely overrun at the min but now I'm on the road to recovery.

Thanks again for helping me realise what was wrong.

Yayyy that really is good news.