05-12-2013, 05:40 PM
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Rib pain
Feeling old and decrepid today.. Does anyone else get a "catch" or a cramp in their upper rib area, especially if twisting or bending? I have been having them.. the pain is sharp and it hurts to breathe until it lets up.. can I chalk this up to a big belly too? OR just old age
05-12-2013, 05:47 PM
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Could be your belly couldn't it? I broke my rib cage when I fell when out running. Snapped it at the bottom where it feeds into a sleeve. My left rib cage is deformed now and I also have a sharp bone sticking downwards. If I put on some weight my belly ends up pressing the bone and I get pain. Could be something like that - maybe? When I am nice and slim very little if any pain at all.05-12-2013, 05:57 PM
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I found this. It describes it exactly..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome
05-12-2013, 06:01 PM
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Only occasionally but I think it's to do with damage from previously broken ribs, MILs dog Trixie took me out one day completely wiped me off my feet and I landed badly on a 2 foot brick wall, took my breath away the pain that day. Lovely old girl didn't mean to hurt me she just got over excited because I always brought her a sausage LOL05-12-2013, 09:12 PM
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As I have many similar symptoms as your gastric ones and also get this so, I think it may be connected, my GP said originally it was angina then the fybromyalgia which I have, then costo chondritis (may have spelled that wrong). I don't get it at the same time as the stomach pains though, so who knows?.06-12-2013, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by AudreyII
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I found this. It describes it exactly.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome
Not wishing to alarm you Audrey, but yes I too have suffered similar symptoms for many years. Had a major attack in 1993, the pain of which caused me to 'pass out' (I was in the pub at the time). The Pub landlord whistled up an ambulance and I was carted off to hospital. Turns out the pain I had experienced was caused by a Pulmonary Embolism. I've subsequently had four more and my lungs are well and truly 'shot'. I am now taking rat poison (Warfarin) and will be for the rest of my life.
06-12-2013, 10:16 AM
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Audrey maybe a chat with your Doctor would ease your mind but also stop anything happening which needs attention. Can you not go see the Doc and then you will be able to cope with what is happening to you. When your body gives you pain its generally because something is not correct and needs a check up. Hope it goes well for you.06-12-2013, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Twizard
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As I have many similar symptoms as your gastric ones and also get this so, I think it may be connected, my GP said originally it was angina then the fybromyalgia which I have, then costo chondritis (may have spelled that wrong). I don't get it at the same time as the stomach pains though, so who knows?.
I believe it is costochondritis.. or at least that plays a role. I have found I have lots of muscle pains and aches and twinges being on a statin.. so I take a lipitor break 2 days a week.
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