[KnowNothingJon]

I've been getting biweekly massages for six weeks. Last night I asked the therapist how the spasms in my leg stand up in her experience- she rated them a 6-7... great. While it took some testing with the hot stones they really helped, short term.

Sunday morning I woke up with a pain in my back right rib, a few inches past the shoulder blade. By evening the front portion of that rib was sore.

Yesterday pre-massage, shortness of breath that distinctly was the right side. It abated after the massage and has had a recurring guest star spot since I woke up.

So anyone else run into a symptom like this with neuropathy.? Itvery well could be from turning. I seem more fragile of late.


Thank you for any input,

Jon

[mrsD]

Be watchful for shingles... that is a possibility and most common location. (did you have chickenpox in the past?)

I had a massage (my last ever) activate my shingles once.
So I avoid massages.

[KnowNothingJon]

mmmm, well I had the chicken pox hard, extremely hard as a child, but I walked into the massage with the issue. A that night break from the shallow breath feeling that is ddcidedly right side.

Thank you for the idea, though.

If not for having health issues break me down before this one would be doing a number on me.

Jon

[glenntaj]

--I have a recurrent left lower shoulder blade/rib/trapezius/latissimus problem that like to act up from time to time, especially when I overdo weightlifting, and often the pain/discomfort comes around the rib curve towards the front, in the general area of where the lowest ribs connect to the sternum, but not quite all the way to the sternum.

From some of the physiatric literature I've read it's not uncommon for rib connected muscle pain to reflect to the side of the chest or even the side of the stomach.

[Susanne C.]

I get muscle spasms in the rib cage that correspond to what people with MS call "hugs". They were becoming very frequent and a little scary with sharp pains at times. I am on 10mg Baclofen x3 which helps a lot.

[janieg]

That was where shingles hit me. The pain started in my back on the right side under the shoulder blade. I thought I had torn my intercostal muscles back there as I had done in the front the year before.

"Intercostal muscles are several groups of muscles that run between the ribs, and help form and move the chest wall. The intercostal muscles are mainly involved in the mechanical aspect of breathing. These muscles help expand and shrink the size of the chest cavity when you breathe."

The pain eventually spread around to the front of my torso stopping right in the middle. I still thought I'd hit my intercostals. At some point in the process, I experienced flu-like symptoms that cleared up pretty quickly, but then the blisters appeared.

I should add I that I was 48 at the time. Shingles never even entered my mind. Now I know younger people can get them too.

[KnowNothingJon]

My worry team has me going to an urgent care. I think it is a pulled muscle. It is not worse today, though not better.

[KnowNothingJon]

Muscle-Skeletal in nature. They were willing to do an x-ray, but all the pushing and prodding yielded the same results as I had, three tender areas- front, side, back- that follow the same rib/s.

I can do the side arching rainbow stretch that produces only a stretching pull feel, so I plan on doing on here and there through the night. He recommended ice. I said nothing, but I'm feeling heat as my answer. My warm to hot coffee mug says that feels nice.

It was good to confirm it is not likely to be my gall bladder. Part of my circle had her gall bladder removed off a similar pain.

Ottoman engaged. Resting is the first part of my recipe.


Jon