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sore spot on right pectoral major for 4 month's? ???

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averyseth08
averyseth08

I'm 38 year old female. Back in June I noticed what I would call a sore spot on chest muscle. I spend a great deal of time with rounded shoulders looking down at phone. I don't really feel it so much if I am up moving a round. Feel it more sitting if I'm on my phone alot or in the bed I'm a side sleeper. I can feel it sometimes with a deep breath or cough. Some days I dont feel it at all. Ibeprophen takes the pain away. My chiropractor feels it from my rounded shoulders. Stretching it out helps some to. Is it normal to have chest soreness for 4 months. This is right sided and does not feel at all to have anything to do with my heart. Thanks!

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  • dee50031
    dee50031 averyseth08

    Posted

    is yours badly painful mine is not, but I was thinking costo too, but really not sure and so so scared to go doctors, i say the same im going back to see them and then lose the nerve the next day 

     

    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Not its not badly painful at all .... I was just reading another thread on here title costochondritis and anxiety... and sitting alot and bad posture can have alot to do with it. Being out of alignment. I have one hip that sits higher than the other.
  • dee50031
    dee50031 averyseth08

    Posted

    Also i have read that costo is very painful and mines not, so not sure, so wish i knew what is was

    mines like a pulling ache sometimes, i don't even know how to describe it 

     

    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      That's how I would describe mine like a pulling ache. I don't think it's something bad wrong....I know my mind tends to want to go there sometimes. Have a rib out of place can cause bad posture sitting alot.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      seems like stressing is part of it as feel it in my other side of chest as i am right to you grr just want to feel normal agin, i have had some reflux too have you not sure if it is connected 
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      I sometimes feel it in the same spot also in the other side. Just that goes away. I'm here to chat whenever comes straight to my email. So please feel free too. I have days where it really bothers me.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      Thank you so much, nice to not feel alone, same goes for you, if you want to chat send message through here I will always respond, have you chatted with anyone else that has similar symptoms x
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      No ....but there is a physical therapy doc online dr Joe you may can Google her. I sent her a message. She thought muscular or rib our of place. or costochondritis. ...she said she wouldn't be to concerned with it. It's just that fact that it's on going I know that worry us more. I don't notice it up moving around cleaning or out doing things. Unless it is very very sore and some days or different that others. I notice it the most if I have been sitting a lot or in bed. I have noticed alot of people saying that. What about you?
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      How has your chest been? Mine hasn't been to bad but it's still there.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      my side still hurts and under breast to lay on that side gets on my nerves, i did go doctors and he felt around and said that he thinks costo, I did feel tender when he pressed right in the  center of breast just to left xx how is yours xx
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Mine has been sore today up above my breast in my chest feel it the most with movement. Did you feel better after going to doc?
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      I do feel a bit better but not a great deal, and was only given gel as I cant take pills i have ulcerativev colitis and it messes with my stomach, so hope that the gel eases it, I am slim so the doctor said he couldnt feel anything untoward annd when i am feeling around it is probally bone xx
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      sorry to hear that yours has been sore today, you say yours is right side is it near the top ribs, that is where mine started and only recently went to ribs as well 

       

    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Thank you. It just worries me. It started noticing it June and it comes and goes. Ibeprophen helps which makes me think inflammation which I think that's what Costco is I believe?
  • dee50031
    dee50031 averyseth08

    Posted

    I had my partner feel around under my breast the other night as my over reacting brain thought I felt a lump, he was feeling around and all od a sudden sharp pain and then tender after kind of felt like heat under the skin if that makes sense, it hurt so thought I have to go doctors, which I did xxx
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      How long has yours been sore? Mine is like a catch or a pull I feel when turning on my side in bed. Sometimes how I'm positioned when seated or with movement. It's dull just kinda like a nagging thing that's there. Not a stabbing pain at all. Does this sound similar. I need to go to doc .I have been putting it off.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      mine feels pulling tight on upper chest, but i have had some stabbing pains too, under the left breast is where I hate the most as like you I sleep on my side, I have had the upper cheast ache around a year, so my mind has been mad with worry and several drs visits being told anxiety, and i knew it wasnt so stopped going drs for a long time, but then my panics set in and had to return to seee them again xx you should go drs hun, just for peace of mind xx
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Thank you! Yes I do need to go.... so I can't stop worrying about it LOL!! Thanks for chatting with me. Glad you were brave and went in . I need to also!!
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      Yes worrying will only make you feel worse and if it is costo may be stress can make it worse, I am sure you can be brave enough to go drs, please let me know how you get on, and like i said before here to chat if you need to x
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Thanks I will let you know when I finally do go. Have a good night!!
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08

      Posted

      How has your chest been? I didn't notice mine for past 2 or 3 weeks and then it came back this week. Slept the wrong way and got a lot of shoulder and neck pain and then my chest started not as bad as it has been before but enough for me to notice.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      mine seems to move a bit, i feel like bruised feeling around the edge of bottom ribs, and still have the rib under left breast that hurts, sorry to hear that yours seemed to have come back x
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      It was bad last week and this week I have barely felt it. It's so weird. How are you?
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      is yours still in the same place, i now feel sore on edges of last few ribs and hurts to press them, got drs again on monday, so will see about that pain now, sorry to hear you had a bad week, so i take it yours still comes and goes did you go to see the dr in the end x
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      Yes pretty much same spot . No I haven't went to doc. It's seems to be in my pectoral muscle on right side of chest. When I pull my shoulders back I can feel it and when I stretch it out it will go away just like a pulled muscle. I feel it with movement . Raising up from lying down. Lifting up my right arm. Changing position from laying on my side. Some days I feel a lot and like today I can't feel it. I think I'm probably constantly sitting with rounded shoulders which cause chest muscle to become short. That's why I think when I stretch it out it goes away....if that makes any since. But I'm not a doctor and put off going out of fear.
    • dee50031
      dee50031 averyseth08

      Posted

      I understand the fear, think it sounds like muscle, but im not a dr, i have been trying to sort out my posture as i also hunch over the computer, so trying to break that habit ha ha, not easy but do feel a little better for it x
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 dee50031

      Posted

      I know ....I'm always on my phone hunched over shoulders forward and neck down. It's called upper cross syndrome I think??? Which can cause cosco. Which can effect your ribs too. We better straighten up literally😉
    • Soanxious
      Soanxious averyseth08

      Posted

      I have this exact same thing!! It's starting to really worry me too. My dr said it was anxiety and costochondritis but I have had it for months. I had all these thoughts going through my head like lung cancer and having panic attackssad I'm too scared to get a chest xray and go back to the dr too. It gets better when I stretch my chest like against a door way and laying down its worse and certain movements and positions. It also hurts to press on it and it's in my upper right chest a little below my collarbone. I can't take ibuprofen bc I just started taking an antidepressant and they said I could only take Tylenol which doesn't help at all. Have you gone to the dr or found any relief?
    • averyseth08
      averyseth08 Soanxious

      Posted

      No I never went to doctor. Mine also feels better with chest stretches. Also ibeprophen always seems to help. I was scared to get a chest xray also😂 I think anxiety can play a huge role also . .....and looking down at phones with rounded shoulders .
    • Soanxious
      Soanxious averyseth08

      Posted

      Yes I do that all day literally I have severe health anxiety for 5 months now and I lay in bed everyday and google my symptoms. I have bad posture and I do notice that I am always tensing my shoulder which is probably tensing my chest also. I get arm pain too and pain in my neck sad
    • jean15780
      jean15780 Soanxious

      Posted

      Hi. New to this but have been reading your comments, have

      bad posture from years of typing, then computers. I have had a

      sharp pain in my back on the right side which really hurt when I

      cough or sneeze, it was so painful, had a cough on and off for ages,

      do get up phlegm but not copious amounts and sometimes don't cough for

      for a week. The pain seems to be on the rightside upper, worse when push

      shoulders go back but easier when I lie on it.Been taking Ibrufen since

      last Friday and it does ease and no way as bad as the stabbing

      pain I originally had. Not been to the Dr, scared stiff but of course

      worry its Lung Cancer.

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