Occasional pain on lower right side of back and right rib cage?
I've been hyperventilating quite abit lately (seems the more I think about breathing the more I hyperventilate) and a couple of times where I've tried to take deep breaths I have felt this shooting stabbing pain on the lower right side of my back and under my rib cage. It doesn't happen all the time but the two times that it has happened it has worried me & for the last week or so the area has been quite sore. Help! Any ideas what this can be?
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1. You need to see a doctor- no one can diagnose you without examining you. I am not a doctor, but it sounds like pleurisy. Pleurisy is where the thin membrane around the lung gets inflamed. It can actually separate from the chest wall. Forceful coughing would be really painful, too. Treatment is antinflammatories and/or antibiotics. That is just a guess. I am not a doctor- go see one.2. I agree, see a doctor, but also maybe see a massage therapist. Your seratus anterior helps with inhalation along with some other muscles between your ribs in your rib cage. the stabbing pain could be one of your intercostal muscles getting pinched. the tightening of the muscles could be getting tense from stress or allergens in the air, or a combination of both.
if you don't want to pay $30-60 to go see a massage therapist, try raking your fingers along the contours of your rib cage.
this video may help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_XeW2EUZwY
3. Massage the pain out with your right hand to your back, Try hot water bottles(fill a pepsi bottle with hot water)
If you can not keep food down, then it is your appendix.
Get an xray immediately on that.
It could just be air, take a pepcid AC and massage.
Good Luck.
