Abandoned Forum

[thesinofmylips]

I have this bruise-like pain right at the bottom of my chest, except there's no bruise. it's just in the middle of my lower rib cage and mostly on the left. it hurts when i press it, when i sit up, and when i laugh. there is absolutely no external damage at all.
can anyone tell me what's wrong with me?

[TheCountess]

I can't tell you what's wrong, I can only tell you I sometimes get the same thing myself. Wish I could be more helpful.

[Cherokee_girl]

There could be a bruise there and you just can't see it. I've had several ribs that were bruised on the bone but not the skin.

[Bomadeno]

I've also had the same thing... I believe its growing pains, it got me (as i rmeember) from age 13-15ish

And it goes away. Its hell tying shoelaces.

[Cherokee_girl]

Yeah and running. It happened to me in the fall when we were running and in the spring when we played tennis.

[vampress]

I get the same thing sometimes. I also get this constriction around my upper chest as if a boa constrictor is slowly trying to suffocate me. Can anyone help me?

[Pimienta]

I asked my mom about the constriction because it happens to me sometimes and she said it was my sternum
I don't know what about my sternum but that's all she said

as for the bruise thing I don't know but I have had it too

[hamster]

I would get your doctor to look at it. Seriously. It could be just growing pains, but pain is usually your body trying to tell you something important. It could be just gas. Or it could be appendicitis.

[Bomadeno]

Hamster has a point.. tub before you worry your socks off, appendicitis is felt in the lower on the.. right.. hand side (i think)

I know vaguely cause i had suspected appendicitis, until the pain went away a bit later

[thesinofmylips]

nah it's too high for appendicitus.
it faded for a while and now it's come back, it never completely went away though.

[Astarte]

When does it actually appear? Is it a little while after you've eaten something? If so, what paticulr things have you eaten?

I also had a pain in the chest........I began to worry about this pain a great deal, and then found I started to feel dizzy as well!!! The pain was getting worse and I was sure that I was going to die at any tick of the clock.

I eventually went to a specialist who looked at all the various results and asked what was happening in my life at that point. Well, my father had died about 18 months before, I was working for the most dreadful bully that I've ever met in a professional situation, etc, etc. It was not a good list. He suggested that although I was in perfect health the things that were happening around me were making me feel physically ill. I was under a lot of stress and we talked about what I could do to relieve that.

When Mr Astarte was in his last year at uni his stress also showed itself in physical symptoms. He spent no end of time at the doctors with an ongoing ear infection that was really horrible.

We decided to fly up tp Surfers Paradise for a weeks holiday after he finished his exam. Literally, the minute he walked out of the last exam, he began to feel better, he went straight to the airport from there and by the time he was in the air, his ear had stopped ringing and the bubbling had stopped. It was like a miracle! And since then it has reappeared to a much lessened degree if he is particulrly worried about something.

Sometimes we can be worried and upset about things, and try to push them out of our minds. Those bad feelings have to go somewhere and usually our bodies start to react in some way.

Maybe you are worried and upset about something and this is your body's way of telling you, you need to sit down, relax and think about it. And definitely go to a doctor, because if there is something wrong s/he will get you on the road to fixing it or you might find there's nothing wrong at all. Either way it will be a relief.