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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 605027" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>IC, I had a bone scan 3 years ago and was fine. The rib broke along an old fracture site. The rib is minor, and according to the doctor, it's not that uncommon to fracture ribs coughing. I was twisted around funny when I started coughing and that torqued the rib enough to break it along the weakened area.</p><p></p><p>The big problem is the muscle tear. As I understand it, when the rib cracked, the attached muscle went into spasm and then tore. If it were only the rib, I would be dealing with site tenderness and swelling. I've got that.</p><p></p><p>The muscle I tore connects the ribcage to the pelvis. It tore away from the rib so I've got pain from the rib just below my "bra line" to the crest of my ilium.</p><p></p><p>Basically, It hurts to do anything as the muscle stabilizes the torso.</p><p></p><p>All I can do is take ibuprofen in strong doses, take pain medications as tolerated.</p><p></p><p>The pain medications are an issue: I had to cut the dose back to half prescribed as I got so dizzy and loopy that I nearly fell a couple of times. Can't chance that as I'm pretty sure I'd have not been able to get up.</p><p></p><p>Last time I took narcotics was after surgery several years ago. Those were stronger stuff than what I'm taking now, but I was in bed and it wasn't far to fall, LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 605027, member: 1963"] IC, I had a bone scan 3 years ago and was fine. The rib broke along an old fracture site. The rib is minor, and according to the doctor, it's not that uncommon to fracture ribs coughing. I was twisted around funny when I started coughing and that torqued the rib enough to break it along the weakened area. The big problem is the muscle tear. As I understand it, when the rib cracked, the attached muscle went into spasm and then tore. If it were only the rib, I would be dealing with site tenderness and swelling. I've got that. The muscle I tore connects the ribcage to the pelvis. It tore away from the rib so I've got pain from the rib just below my "bra line" to the crest of my ilium. Basically, It hurts to do anything as the muscle stabilizes the torso. All I can do is take ibuprofen in strong doses, take pain medications as tolerated. The pain medications are an issue: I had to cut the dose back to half prescribed as I got so dizzy and loopy that I nearly fell a couple of times. Can't chance that as I'm pretty sure I'd have not been able to get up. Last time I took narcotics was after surgery several years ago. Those were stronger stuff than what I'm taking now, but I was in bed and it wasn't far to fall, LOL [/QUOTE]
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