my upper left rib cage hurts. like below my chest area but above my bellybutton area. it will hurt occasionally. like oneday or twodays a week for about 3 weeks. i have a small cold/allergies. could that be the cause. it is like a burning-stinging pain. last week it was so bad that i had to stay in bed and it hurt right after i ate. but now it is just like a pounding thing. i am active. not overweight. and young (16) please help? should i be conserned? what is wrong? what should i do? please!!!
2007-06-01 17:59:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
and it takes a lot for my parents to take me to the dr. b/c i "get sick" or feel bad a lot so when i say that i dont feel well or i am hurting they tell me to weight it out for a while and to take advil and stuff.
2007-06-01 18:09:15 · update #1
im not coughing. just sneezing... a lot. and i have a stuffed nose. thats about it for my cold.
2007-06-01 18:12:15 · update #2
and the glands in my jaw are swollen on one side
2007-06-01 18:14:17 · update #3
have you been coughing a lot? I had some awful pain after a tough cold. I had actually bruised my lungs! My niece actually punctured a lung coughing once. She was around your age. It feels like it will never go away. I had to push for my doctor to take xrays. All they would do was give me antibiotics. When in doubt, better to go to the doctor and have nothing wrong, then to wait and suffer.
2007-06-01 18:10:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HI
I think you should ask your doctor about it.
Many years ago, I had a pain in what may have been the same area as you describe. I was worried that it was my heart.
My doctor told me I had pulled a little muscle there; a muscle I was not aware of [the doctor may have used another word...its been awhile and I dont remember exactly]
I wonder if during your cold and allergies you may have been coughing and sneezing and inadvertantly pulled that little muscle.
I strongly suggest you ask your doctor since it has incapacitated you at least once.
~hiddnstar~
2007-06-02 01:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by hiddnstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell your parents to take you to the doctor for a checkup. It could be anything from gas to your spleen. Did you fall or strain yourself?
2007-06-02 01:06:13 · answer #3 · answered by nyc2caligal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be a number of different things - you may want to get medical help.
2007-06-02 01:05:27 · answer #4 · answered by art_flood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the ER.
2007-06-02 01:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by KitKat 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋