Pain in the ribs

[coccinelle]

Anybody else had this? Went to bed fine last night and woke up with this horrible pain in my ribs on left side. So much so, that I haven't been able to do much all day due to it, physically I mean. The only thing I can think of which has caused it was that yesterday I was raking up first leaves and putting them into big sand bag and pulling this down through the garden a few times. At the time, I wasn't aware I was straining on anything.
Is this just muscular and will sort itself out?

[Sqad]

If it is made worse by moving and breathing, not radiating in to the neck or the jaw, not radiating down the left arm.........then yes, from what you describe, it is muscular.

Ibuprofen should sort you out.

[coccinelle]

Thank you Sqad. I didn't realise we had muscles around the rib cage so you live and learn!!! Very strange that this 'comes out' next morning with no inkling the day before.... after all this pulling of bags of leaves I went onto doing lots of other activities without any ache whatsoever.
No radiation to neck or arm by the way.

[Sqad]

;-)

[jake-the-peg]

From your description of it coming of after exercise then absolutely muscular.

However pluracy - infection of the plural sack containing the lungs can cause a lot of pain like this and it is made worse breathing.

[Sqad]

Went to bed fine, got up with pain but no cough....unlikely to be pleurisy.

[coccinelle]

Thank God for that assurance Sqad: pleurisy???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to have to lie down. I have no pain breathing it's just when i move. There are times I move and there's no pain, usually on getting up from sitting down, then all of a sudden it hits!!!