pain under right rib cage. Hurts to breathe.

arin · Guest

The last three days i've had a sharp pain under my right rib cage. It hurts to breathe, and it hurts when i'm just sitting. About three to five times a day, I'll get a really really sharp pain under my rib cage and it feels like a big bubble that will only go away if i take a really deep breath, but it hurts too much to breathe or even move. It happens if I laugh or if im laying down and switch positions too fast.. I can't take a deep breath laying down either or the "bubble" will come. I can't breathe hardly at all when it happens. i have to take really quick and short breaths.. it has happened before, but never as bad as the last three days and it's never left me sore. I don't have much of an appetite, and my urine has a strong odor. Ive had a history of bladder infections and a few kidney infections, also i had swollen kidneys and a swollen spleen about four years ago. Sad

so i'm not sure if it has any relation to either of those. If anyone has any ideas as to whats wrong with me id greatly appreciate the info. Thanks!

Guest · Guest

I had the same problem two years ago and i baffled my GP so he sent me to the hospital to have an xray turns out i had a collapsed lung and is really common in tall skinny males though im not tall i am really skinny, it sound like you have a collapsed lung, go to your gp.

Guest · Guest

I started getting this dull, sometimes sharp, pain on the left side of my body, beneath my lung, back in December of this past year. I've had to leave work early because of it, and take pain pills. I went to the hospital, had an EKG done and a chest x-ray, but nothing showed up. It lasted for a while, on and off, sometimes barely noticeable at all, and then it pretty much stopped.

After this happened, I figured out that I had a bladder condition called IC or Interstitial Cystitis. It has something to do with the bladder's lining and symptoms are pretty much "bladder infection" after "bladder infection". But what you said made me wonder if the chest pain and the IC are connected at all.

However, now it is June and the pain in my lung is back. Lately my chest has been feeling heavy and uncomfortable. And now it hurts more when I take a deep breath than it did the last time i felt this way. I'm worried that I have lung cancer, because I do smoke cigarettes. I'm only nineteen, I'm not sure if that matters. I'm also a bit of a hypocondriac, to be honest, I just don't know what this is and I wish that it'd get cleared up and go away soon.

Good luck to you.

Love and Light,
Jillian.

Guest · Guest

These all sound like collapsed lungs.

The fact that you smoke doesn't help things, and cancer is always a possibility, however, sometimes a slightly collapsed lung is hard to distinguish on films, and a slow leak has just now gotten bad enough to notice again. I would get some more x-rays done, and if that doesn't show anything, go for more detail. Maybe MRI or CT scans.

I have asthma, and my boyfriend has had a collapsed lung. Lung issues are a daily thing with us. We're both really fit, thin younger people in our twenties, and I think that has helped. We surf, and I'm a competitive show jumper in the equestrian sports. I know that skinny, active people have a higher risk of collapsed lungs, and I'm sure a smoker would as well.

Guest · Guest

Your description sounds EXACTLY like what I'm experiencing, including the bubble effect, which I haven't seen many other people write about over the internet. I was wondering (if by any chance you see this) how this ended and if you ever discovered what it was.

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