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Pain Under Breast When Bending. History Of Bronchitis And Bad Cough. On Flexoral, Lyrica And Cymbalta, Urocet, But No Relief From Pain. Muscular Pain Or Serious?
I recently had bronchitis really bad. I have never coughed so much! I was on bed rest for three weeks. While coughing I developed some pain under my left breast. A chest xray showed that I did not break a rib. I was told that it was probably muscular. The pain did start to get better even after I returned to work. However, recently the pain has become even worse than it was when I was sick. I am not sure that it iL;s muscular because there isn't any pain when I move my arm. The pain is bad when I have to bend down and even worse when I come back up. I already take Flexoral at bedtime plus I take Lyrica and Cymbalta for my Fribomyalgia, which I would think all that should take care of the pain! I also take Urocet for pain. I have tried using Absormine Jr., Bengay, and Salonpas pain relief patch. None of those did anything for the pain. I would think that if it is muscular that at least one of the stuff mentioned above would have worked. What do you think the pain is?
It seems you might have developed Crack Fracture of your Rib giving you the pain and sometimes these are not detected in chest X-Ray. Hope you feel the pain more during coughing, sneezing & laughing. Can use Chest Strapping to restrict movement of ribs thereby diminishing Pain. Don't worry it will subside in 6weeks time. Can take Calcium Tabs. If still persists repeat Chest X-ray/CT Scan of Chest. Analgesics S.O.S.
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Pain Under Breast When Bending. History Of Bronchitis And Bad Cough. On Flexoral, Lyrica And Cymbalta, Urocet, But No Relief From Pain. Muscular Pain Or Serious?
It seems you might have developed Crack Fracture of your Rib giving you the pain and sometimes these are not detected in chest X-Ray. Hope you feel the pain more during coughing, sneezing & laughing. Can use Chest Strapping to restrict movement of ribs thereby diminishing Pain. Don t worry it will subside in 6weeks time. Can take Calcium Tabs. If still persists repeat Chest X-ray/CT Scan of Chest. Analgesics S.O.S.