Does your chest hurt?

[S1ur]

mine does and I have decided it is not a broken rib, punctured lung or pleurisy.

I have had an annoying cough all over xmas and then my chest/ribs started hurting, feeling bruised esp on one-side when I breathe etc.

I did think it was simply muscular, that maybe I pulled a muscle in a particularly energetic coughing fit but it has lasted aaages.

Then tonight I met someone with same issue and had had a chest xray, anti-bs and ant-inflammatories and it was still hurting.

So. does your chest hurt like mine? and/or are you a doctor and can you fix me?

TIA

Hi slur
Any fever? Are you coughing up anything nasty looking?

How do you know it's not pleurisy?

Google chosto-chondritis - sounds like a good candidate for a diagnosis from your description.

Tis inflammation of teh cartilage where your ribs join your breastbone (or spine). Usually the pain is located over the specific chosto-condral junction which is affected. Most often caused by excessive coughing. Pain is worse when breathing in or when coughing.

Treatment is anti-inflammatories - ibuprofen or diclofenac from GP.

HTH

no, i'm fine now.
thanks for asking though

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Thank you none pained people.

and cor at sensible questions and long words.

No fever. No nasty looking things. No pleurisy because I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and she listened and said not pleurisy probably but gave me anti-bs anyway. and they made no difference so I assume not pleurisy.

(she also comfirmed not a broken rib. Though I neglected to mention the punctured lung hypothesis )

right the chosto thing, I have googled (ty SMS) and I dunno. my pain is more to the side, under my breast and spreading a bit lower. Manily on one side but worse today.

Today both sides and annoyingly painful.

Do we advocate wine or brufen?

fine now DB?

Did you chest hurt? Or did you have another ailment?

oh and oh is lowfatspread sticking?

Wine!

Brufen. Wine when you are feeling better.

Which side and where abouts (exactly) is the pain?

brufen washed down with wine?

It is mostly on my left side. It was just between the ribs immediately under my left breast BUT now it is on the right side too and covers several ribs- in fact all bar lowest. AND it hurts like I have been bruised even when I am not taking a deep breath.

pah.

am cross with body.

No, my chest doens't hurt atall.

Good!

Now could you just nip round to the neighbours and ask them? I would like to build a case for a mystery chest pain sweeping the nation.

ta

I's agree with slighlymadscientist it sounds like an inflamation of something, possibly of the intercostal space between the ribs. Pop back to the GP

I had/have a chest infection.
My chest was tight rather than painful but i had steroids and AB's.
Still not 100% but feeling better after reading your OP!

could be muscular from all the coughing i suppose.

Right. Thanks. Will call GP tomorrow.

Ta all.

probably no harm in getting a hot water bottle on there to help with the pain.
see, i can do sensible suggestions!

Sorry for that DB,
glad your better though.

Oh damn you are not DB eh?

You are DLFS

Well that just sounds like a sofa retail outlet.

DB is fine.
no to DLFS, you're right about that one.

Hi, I have chostachondritis/Tietze's syndrome described here which was diagnosed after ultrasounds for breast/chest pain in the areas you describe (towards the middle of the chest as that's where the cartiledge is), and is associated with hurting more when you breathe etc. So could be that.

I wouldn't recommend heat for it as it's inflammation. A pack of peas and some brufen would be good.

Hi Slur I have very similar symptoms to you though just on right side, never in middle of chest. Feels bruised and has been vvv painful when coughing, breathing and stretching, also driving - effort of turning wheel to get round corners was agonising!!

Now much better (though not gone) after more than a week. My GP diagnosed pleurisy about which I was , doc at hospital (referred after chest xray for separate chest infection) was also about pleurisy and thought pulled muscles ... but I got a chosto-chondritis diagnosis on MN the other night from SlightlyMadScientist and think this is the most likely thing. Who needs doctors when you have MN?!

Keep me posted on what your GP says...

Can I just stress that I am not a Dr nor medically trained. I have just suffered chosto-chondritis and your symptoms just sound familiar. I think it can often be overlooked by GPs too - as it is much less serious that things like pleuresy and pulmonary embolism which need treatment/ruling out more urgently.