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Can you crack or break a rib from coughing?

By JOANNAB35101730 | 185 posts, last post
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Angelica Giron, MD answered this Can You Crack a Rib While Coughing?
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Wow!, and I thought I was the only person with all these issues.
I have had this cough for over 3 weeks. I have been on Robatusin DM, finished everyone of them. I'm using Synbacort, nose sprays, and couldn't get the coughing to stop. every time I coughed it would kill my head..Now just finished Steroids. Still have the issue..Something interested is that I have a paralized.vocal cord, Now I was just told that my u va la, which is the thing that hangs in the back top of your throat..From coughing so much, It is enlarged., and my soft pallet is also enlarged. Any way at least it may help you feel better. knowing that it is a viral thing, and Antibiotics won't work for this..I really hope everyone will start to feel better soon..
Thank you all for sharing to everyone that were not alone..
I also thing I fractured my rid, because I have all the same issues as each of you..

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I'm 48 and had my first bout with bronchitis when i was a teen. I had very physical violent coughs that anyone around me would think it was humor exaggerated. During one of these bouts i felt a pop in my chest and i went to my knees in pain. Doctor confirmed that I had broken a rib and all that could be done was to wrap a wide elastic bandage around my chest to "ease the pain'/avoid further damage" as I continued to cough until the bronchitis was cleared up with meds.
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I have the same symptoms
did you see a doctor
what was the end result
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I coughed really hard & now my left side in middle of back hurts when I cough what can I do to alleviate my pain
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How does it heal and how long does it take I can press on my lower rib and it feels broken I cant pick anything do to pressure hurting on
in my chest. FACE
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Did not mean face, and hurts to pick up anything with a little weight to it
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Yep. Just broke my 11th rib from coughing so much. It started out just being really sore area a week ago. Then yesterday in the way to the dr, I coughed and felt a pop with horrible pain. Had xrays today and there it was..broken, but thankfully not displaced. I was in shock. Its extremely painful. Coughing, sneezing, trying to sleep has been difficult. I told the area right when i have to cough and I try hard not to. I also had bloodwork done too and hopefully there won't be any underlying reasons why my rib broke. Wish you the best.
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Omg me too! After how long did your pain go again??
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Hahahahahahaha me too! I was like, is this it? Is this how I die?! Just got laid off too and lost my insurance. Legit thought I was dying.
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I think i brook mine :( so much agony it hurts to breath and i am trying not to cough
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I recently had a really bad cough (asthma). A couple of days ago while it was still really bad I got a sudden pain on the lower right side of my ribs. At first I thought I was just sore from coughing so much (at the beginning of my cough I had soreness on my abdomen like I had worked out but that went away) but this pain was different it was like a sharp poking pain and it was almost unbearable for a day or two. I'm on benzonatate or something like that now and my cough has significantly improved and Im almost not coughing at all now. But I still have the nagging pain there and it hurts when I press it but not like it was hurting before when my cough was really bad. I looked online and I thought I had plank pain or something but I probably have a rib fracture. From what I see there's really nothing you can do it except wait it out.

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**flank pain Is what i meant
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I coughed and pop. Under my front right ribcage. I peed a little due to the pain. Went to the doctor. Said that cartalege can pop. Said it is sometimes called slipped rib syndrome. I sneezed earlier and peed alot. Pain was so bad I nearly passed out. Said it could take 6 weeks or better to heal. Doc gave me steroids to help with my congestion, cough and even to help the inflammation of the ribs.
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As a registered nurse on Ortho floor I agree plus I have 3 cracked ribs of my own and coughing can dry cracked them and make them worse again
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That is EXACTLY how mine went. This pain is horrible. I’m icing it and taking muscle relaxers and Motrin. I hope it eases soon.
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