What Causes Pain In Ribs And Underarms?
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Detailed Answer:
Dear Mr XXXXXX,
Greetings from health care magic!!! I am Dr Thakker and shall be answering your question.
I can understand your concerns about the pain in ribs. I will try my best to address your concern.
Can you please provide me more details of the pain with regards to:
Exact location of pain?
Intensity on scale of 1 to 10?
Nature of pain; is it throbbing/ pricking/ pins and needles/ pressure type?
Radiation to other areas?
Aggravating factors?
Relieving factors?
Associated breathless or leg swelling.
This information will help me to generate a list of differential diagnosis about the cause of this pain.
I would recommend you have a pain reliever for symptomatic relief. You can try the ones that is available over the counter. I would request you to have an ECG and vitamin d3 levels done.
Please get back to me with the above.
I hope this helps you out. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to write back to me.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Thakker.
Intensity on scale of 1 to 10 : 4
Nature of pain; is it throbbing/ pricking/ pins and needles/ pressure type : like pricking or some burnings
Associated breathless or leg swelling : Some dizziness, might be through stress thinking about this pain
Muscular pain
Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXXXX,
Thank you for providing me relevant information on my clinical scenario questions.
You seem to have a pain of muscular origin from the history. Another differential would be tietz syndrome.
I would like you to have an x ray chest, ECG, Vitamin d3 levels and get back to me.
In the mean time a pain reliever will be helpful for symptomatic relief.
I hope this helps you out. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to write back to me.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Thakker.