No havnt had this but if your scared I would get in touch with your careers and have a chat about it. Hopefully will be no more than a pulled muscle.take care x
Hi Lucie,I've had similar "rib pain" which catches my breath. However, it usually does not
last long, and I forget about it. I think mine also goes away when I stretch so that may be a clue that you've overdone some action, and a tendon is complaining.
In thinking about this now, I wonder whether mine isn't related to how I sleep. I have lymphoedema in my right arm so I elevate it extremely at night which causes the rest of my body to be twisted. Mine may be just the complaint of a tendon.
My guess is your physician will just shrug, and be unconcerned but I would be interested to read any medical explanation.
Hi Lulu- I live in fear of what will that first compression fracture be like so I can relate to the fear that may be gripping you. I had left side pain like you describe when I was first diagnosed… it actually led to my diagnosis… but it was not the cancer. The GP correctly diagnosed that it was just a big sneeze that did something- I forget… but all that looking led him to find an enlarged lymph node which was the start of finding out. I did recall The big sneeze and the broken blood vessel in my eye…… so thought all the fuss was going to lead to nothing but was a lot of bone Mets which would have been found much later if not for the sneeze. Maybe yours was from a big sneeze you forgot about. It was quite painful… but went away. I sure hope so!
I have pain that comes and goes but I mostly wake up with it. I saw a palliative doctor yesterday who thinks it’s muscular. I want to control this without pain meds. Will be meeting with someone from PT soon. The pain is usually gone in a half hour after waking up. A warm shower that pulsates on the painful part helps. I think my issue stems from coughing as my breast cancer is in my lung. Good luck.
I too suffer from rib pain- laughing, coughing, sneezing, stretching too fast, etc. Definitely tell onc to be on safe side. Mine was and is a condition causing inflammation in the muscles lining the rib cage wall when there is actuate friction. Google “costochondritis” and you may get some answers to help you ID your pain.
I had a mastectomy and implants 5 yrs ago and this started about 4 years after. I honestly thought I had fractured my rib(s) and yes, as others state it does take your breath away. Ibuprofen was not cutting it. I had exacerbated the situation with a prolonged vomiting episode after anesthesia given for a biopsy. I mentioned to my Onc and asked my surgeon to Rx a mild muscle relaxant which gave much relief. So much so that after a few days I did not need anymore.
(I do have Mets in another rib , so just make sure you keep oncologist in the loop but this was the other side which was clear in Pet scan)
I don't know if my case is related to yours, but for what it's worth I've been experiencing muscular pain on my right side, hip and buttocks region that sometimes migrates up my side. I go to physical therapy twice a week for spinal fractures, but my therapist said the issue was not breathing deeply enough, and apparently not inhaling enough into my right lung! This was causing the right rib area and muscles on the right side of my body to freeze up. Now we are focusing on breathing with movement, and I can feel my right side freeing up and I have much more lung capacity. My therapist also recommended buying an incentive spirometer to measure and exercise lung capacity. It just arrived from Amazon today, so I'll see how much more I can improve!
I had rib pain after pneumonia. Dr said to get x-ray to be sure pneumonia wasn't worse. That's how I found out I had MBC to bone. Best wishes for good outcome.
Hi lulu…. started getting rib pain after my radiation .. same as u I couldn’t stretch reach for items just turning my head to the left brings on this excruciating pain under my left breast … it last for a minute but I can howl for that minute n I hold my breast till it subsides. I told my team n they told me some women get rib pain after radiation. My husband just ordered me a bed rail cause it comes one if I try to get outta bed . N a walker so I have something to lean on getting up from a kitchen chair or recliner. It started after in 2018 I was first diagnosed n had lumpectomy in 2016. But no one looked into it. N in 2021 I went from being told I had a good tumor they caught it early n I had radiation n 5 years later stage 4 breast cancer that spread to my lungs.
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