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2 broken ribs.... :-(
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Hey all!
I am suffering, although no where near as much as I have been!
Started off with a cold given to me by my darling stepson the week before christmas, just after christmas & new year I had a chest & throat infection but stupidly carried on working through it even though I was told numerous times to go home! (I cant help loving my job!)
End of January went to A & E as the pain in the right hand side of my ribs was ridiculous and could feel my ribs moving and popping as i moved, and got given 30mg co codomal to take 8 a day + 3 lots of nurofen as they thought it was pleurisy and possinbly a cracked rib..
Went back after another 3 weeks of stupid amounts of pain to have a second lot of xrays.. waited another 2 weeks on silly pain killers to be told I actually broke 2 ribs!
How long till I am pain free!?
I am suffering, although no where near as much as I have been!
Started off with a cold given to me by my darling stepson the week before christmas, just after christmas & new year I had a chest & throat infection but stupidly carried on working through it even though I was told numerous times to go home! (I cant help loving my job!)
End of January went to A & E as the pain in the right hand side of my ribs was ridiculous and could feel my ribs moving and popping as i moved, and got given 30mg co codomal to take 8 a day + 3 lots of nurofen as they thought it was pleurisy and possinbly a cracked rib..
Went back after another 3 weeks of stupid amounts of pain to have a second lot of xrays.. waited another 2 weeks on silly pain killers to be told I actually broke 2 ribs!
How long till I am pain free!?
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Mine was down to coughing. The Dr said to me that surely I must of had some kind of accident but if I did I dont remember it!
Thats why I dont think they took me seriously at first, but after 2 months I got to see a Dr who had broken his ribs last year and understood and sent me back for more x rays with circles drawn on my ribs (I have a lump on my ribcage where the pain is). I spoke to him last week when he had my results back and he told me I hadnt fractured 1 rib, but had broken 2 :-(
It explains the moving around and pain and weird feelings I had when I first went, and I am okish now, as long as I dont stretch, sneeze, cough or move in any weird way!
Thats why I dont think they took me seriously at first, but after 2 months I got to see a Dr who had broken his ribs last year and understood and sent me back for more x rays with circles drawn on my ribs (I have a lump on my ribcage where the pain is). I spoke to him last week when he had my results back and he told me I hadnt fractured 1 rib, but had broken 2 :-(
It explains the moving around and pain and weird feelings I had when I first went, and I am okish now, as long as I dont stretch, sneeze, cough or move in any weird way!
This story doesn't add up.
\\\\he told me I hadnt fractured 1 rib, but had broken 2 :-( \\\
Not the sort of thing a doctor would say as "broken" and \\fractured\\ are the same thing (synonymous).
Why keep going back to A&E?...you need to see your GP so that your case can be evaluated with a reasonable diagnosis in view.
\\\\he told me I hadnt fractured 1 rib, but had broken 2 :-( \\\
Not the sort of thing a doctor would say as "broken" and \\fractured\\ are the same thing (synonymous).
Why keep going back to A&E?...you need to see your GP so that your case can be evaluated with a reasonable diagnosis in view.
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