Sharp pain just under where ribs meet at front

[margaret jones]

Hi Countrygirl
What a lot of worriers we are i am just like you I forget that the pain was there before and did not harm me , out comes the old anxiety devil and sits about for a while then goes .

Hope you soon feel better Take Care Maggie xx

[dorabella]

I'm having exactly the same problems at the moment - acid burning stomach, constant burping, and painful ribs back and front. In my case it is a surge of fibromyalgia, brought on by an excess of repetitive activity ion the upper chest and arms (tpying my thesis and moving a lot of archive files at work) and made worse by the somewhat humid weather conditions we are having in London.

I've been checked for everything over the years but I still get slightly anxious every time I have a recurrence of symptoms with the "What if? s".

It was the rib pain such as you describe that first sent me to the doctor who diagnosed fibromyalgia - pain in the soft tissue around the costal junctions - and very typical of fibro pain called costochrondritis. If you press on your ribs do they feel bruised and sore? If they do then you might want to ask your doctor to confirm this diagnosis.

It's not a fatal or degenerative condition, just periodically painful and annoying. It's been annoying me for over 10 years.

D.