I have a genetic condition called Ehlets Danlos Syndrime, hypermobility type. My ribs are constantly sublux inch and dislocating and it can hurt like hell and can easily be overlooked. Min was out for over a year before the right chiropractor found it and put it back in place!! Good luck! Go find an atlas orthogonal chiropractor.
Have had same for twenty years only mine is on left side just above waist. Have had numerous tests with no results. Drs. Have no answers. Floating rib has been suggested but no difinitive answers. I'm 70 and plan on dying with this pain. So much for modern medicine. Good luck!
I have had this issue for almost 2 years now. I saw my primary care doctor as well as a thoracic surgeon he referred me to. Both diagnosed it as floating rib syndrome. My pain is primarily on the right side as well. The thoracic surgeon said there was not much to be done, besides prescribing opiate pain relievers (not something I can take all day every day) or performing surgery to remove the floating rib. But, he said that usually the surgery results in more pain than the floating rib. So a year later and I am still in pain, usually it is worse after I sit in my office chair all day. I practice yoga and that does not really help. This is very frustrating but comforting to know others experience the same. Good luck to you.
I just woke up one day with the same pain in my left floating rib. Pushing my thumb around the end there is a small lump. Hurts like hell at work after a few hours, right up until I go to sleep. In the morning it won't hurt so much. I can't take anti-inflammatory drugs (thought that doesn't seem to help others anyway) I hope I, and others, can find some relief soon? I just got over frozen shoulder syndrome in both shoulders two years ago.
After reading the posts to this point I feel some what better. My symptoms are the same, as far as rib pain. I injured my left rib cage in 2010. Since have gone through interferon/ ribavirin for 48 weeks. (Hep C) Cleared that virus. Now diagnosed with barrets syndrome and diverticulitis. Spastic colon then today my primary told me she believes that my rib never healed properly and thus the term Floating Rib was brought up. Believe it or not this is the first time in a while that just maybe it really isn't in my head. And that is why I had to reply to your post. Thank you.
Not sure how to began here. It would seem after reading so many posts, most issues are related to the right side. I suffer from the exact same sensations as described in so many ways.Biggest and profound differenec, my problems or on the left side. After speaking with my primary doctor, who has done every test imaginable, probably more than the norm, I would hope not. But she did help rid myself of Hep C starting in 2012, interferon/ ribavirin for 48 weeks. Fast forward 3 years, sitting here typing knowing I am nearing my time limit for sitting before the stabbing sets in 30- 45 mins if I am lucky. All said and done I I am chemically/psychically fit, other than barrettes esophagus and inability to process any food. Now the doctor tells me this is and old injury. I wonder is it rising it's nasty head because I have lost 1/4 my body weight, unintentionally. And know have floating rib syndrome...maybe?!!!!?? Going to by a Moto-cross kidney belt, wore one as a dare devil kid, give a sot now. Anything has to be better than more phrma. I give already.
My 13 year old daughter has been diagnosed with floating rib syndrome. Without much examination the doctor is recommending surgery. She is thin and very muscular and he had a hard time feeling for it. X-rays were done but he couldn't see anything. He said an ultrasound might detect what is happening but felt pretty confident that he knew what it was. She is very active. She plays volleyball and basketball and is currently on 3 teams. The pain is getting worse. I am concerned about her having surgery but it seems like there aren't any other options. I am interested in hearing from anyone that has had their rib removed.
My situation of pain and frustration with this condition is almost identical to the others, and I am still dealing with it after 25 years. My lower rib on the right side fused itself to my iliac crest. Ultimately the two lower ribs were finally removed allowing movement, but my doctor is amazed that my ribs are still pressing against that area, and sitting is almost impossible. In having treatment, they found a significant hernia which, after surgery, resulted in an enlarged stomach that is now adding additional pressure when sitting. I think hernia surgery should have been avoided. I have had injections, physical therapy, tens units, etc, and I am still miserable. Many doctors do not recognized this condition, or have no concern about it. One doctor actually reprimanded me stating that I was just someone who enjoyed complaining and that I needed to "realize I had nothing wrong with me." Well, all the counseling and reprimands are of no value. My current doctor says this has damaged my spine because of the way I hold my body, and my hip on that side is starting to protrude. This is very real and extremely painful!!!!!! It is controlling my life! The only way I can sit in a chair is to let my legs hang down off the edge, and then I hold onto my side with one hand. Unless this becomes a more recognized condition, I am not optimistic of a beneficial treatment ever being recognized.
I finally went to an osteopath (after exhausting every other kind of doctor). The osteopath's treatment was and still is the only treatment which help ease the pain, although my pain keeps recurring every few months or so, sometimes more frequently. But to get some relief from the pain, see an osteopath! I could feel an improvement the very next day after my first session, but be warned, the night after your first session, you could be in immense pain (I had to go into hospital and onto a morphine drip for the pain) but the next day, I could feel it was slightly better. Keep going, I would guess after 2 or 3 treatments, you'll be feeling much better! Good luck!
The osteopath treated me many times--it would help, but never with any lasting effect. She is the one who discovered the fusion of the rib to the iliac crest, and she sent me to a neurosurgeon who referred me to a thorassic surgeon to remove the two right ribs. Actually, she was the first one who recognized the extent of my issues.
Wow, I am not alone! Have almost the same problems except left sided, 7 years since a Nissan Fundopplication (reflux) op where they retract the ribs. Have unsuccessfully tried Gabapentin, Neurontin, buscopan, codeine, paracetamol. Bowel inflamation/problems. Will be visiting a chiropracter soon. Have ehard of people having these ribs removed.
Do either of you still have this issue? I am currently having this discomfort and want to puke. It makes me horribly nauseous!
Hi! I just read your post from 4 months ago. I also had heller myotomy with dor fundolplication X2 (imagine that?) Last one in 2014. I have RUQ pain, no gallbladder and also have cirrhosis (from Hep C which I have been cured of). My "new" dr. yesterday said there is NOTHING THERE that could be hurting me the way I am describing except a "floating rib". And that was that. REALLY? He gave me Ultram which made me loopy (not sure why because I can tolerate reg pain meds). Has to be an answer....I did not know they spread your ribs during that abdominal surgery, mine was done laproscopically....so not sure about spreading ribs. I have been reading people having these ribs removed and still having pain. These days no one will give you narcotic pain meds. THANK YOU for helping look down the path of my many abdominal surgeries as cause for this rib to hurt. Shelley
Me too!! I'm so relieved to hear other people have this issue.. I'm going for an x-ray tomorrow..praying they can fix something. Is been at least 6 years..
I have left sided rib pain radiates around my back. I've had rotator cuff surgery on that shoulder. Neck surgery. So I have a lot of radiating pain. It goes down my arm , to my face. I've had cardiac work up about a yr ago. Everything was fine. This pain is about unbearable @ times!