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What Causes Stabbing Pain Around The Ribs Along With High Fever?
hi im a 35 yr old women and for the past 2 days I have been feeling really sick I have been having high fever and body pain with headaches but it hurts more around my ribs area and its a pain that its will travel down to my legs it feel like someone stabbing pain and I makes it really uncomfortable that I be crying I when to the doctor and I had a simple blood test done and I came out good same as a urine test I don t know what else to do but this pain its really bad what can I do
Thu, 24 Dec 2015
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Hi,
welcome to HCM,
There are different causes of rib pain :a) musculoskeletal pain such as costochondritis, fibromyalgia, MS etc, b) lung related causes such as pneumonia, bronchitis, pleural effusion etc, c) cardiovascular causes such as aortic dissection, CHF etc. or d)malignant causes such as bone cancer, lung cancer, multiple myeloma etc.
Based on your symptoms as you referred to me, I stongly doubt that you might have pneumonia an infection that causes symptoms such as fever and body aches.( I don't know if you have other accompaining symptoms such as cough, problems with breathing or other symptoms)
So, I suggest you to take some exams such as 1)Chest x-ray 2)CT scan.
3)Sputum cytology 4)MRI (if your doctor suggest you so)
5)Perhaps a biopsy will be necessary too in order to exclude a malignancy.
Treatment for Rib Pain consists: NSAIDs or pain medications, compression bandage, exercises, hot/cold compresses and sometimes surgery for severe cases.
So ,please consult a specialist, take these exams and please contact me again.
Wish you good health,
Dr. Ermira Biu
welcome to HCM,
There are different causes of rib pain :a) musculoskeletal pain such as costochondritis, fibromyalgia, MS etc, b) lung related causes such as pneumonia, bronchitis, pleural effusion etc, c) cardiovascular causes such as aortic dissection, CHF etc. or d)malignant causes such as bone cancer, lung cancer, multiple myeloma etc.
Based on your symptoms as you referred to me, I stongly doubt that you might have pneumonia an infection that causes symptoms such as fever and body aches.( I don't know if you have other accompaining symptoms such as cough, problems with breathing or other symptoms)
So, I suggest you to take some exams such as 1)Chest x-ray 2)CT scan.
3)Sputum cytology 4)MRI (if your doctor suggest you so)
5)Perhaps a biopsy will be necessary too in order to exclude a malignancy.
Treatment for Rib Pain consists: NSAIDs or pain medications, compression bandage, exercises, hot/cold compresses and sometimes surgery for severe cases.
So ,please consult a specialist, take these exams and please contact me again.
Wish you good health,
Dr. Ermira Biu
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