sarcasm Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 So, this all starting a little bit ago... i got sick and came down with a terrible cough. the cough stayed w/ me for a while, and progressively got worse. well anyway, as the days passed, i kept coughing, and on my bday, i was still coughing really bad. then all of a sudden, my ribs on the right side started to hurt like crazy. like a deep bruising or some shit. like some one took a bat and swung it at my ribs. anyway, from then on, every time i coughed, sneezed, yawned, took a deep breath or anything, my ribs would fucking hurt like crazy. i concluded w/ the help of my friends and my mom (a nurse) that i either bruised really bad or cracked a/some ribs. this isn't the first time i've heard of this happening from a cough. people cough so hard, and frequent, that it can crack a rib. and i think that's what happend to me. now, it's been a week or two since the above story. my ribs have not fully recovered, and still feel pretty bad. well even though my ribs weren't fully recovered, they felt much better than before. anway, this morning i sneezed, and i felt/heard a crack come from the same area where my ribs hurt from before. now, i think i just re-cracked my ribs. now, the pain is even worse than before. b/c before i could just sit and mind my own business, and it would not bother me... until i provoked it (ie cough)... but now, it just hurts...so bad actually, when i sneeze, i almost fall on my knees. i can't talk for like 30 seconds, etc...it's bad now, i know some ass is gonna say man up and stop bitching... so yeah i hear you, but go crack a rib, and see how it feels. i'm just wondering if anybody has gone through this, and could give me some pointers. i've already looked up any info on the net, and talked to my mom (nurse), and there isn't much i can do but just wait it out until it heals by itself... ugh.. anyway, now i'm sitting here wearing a back brace pulled up high around my chest to help support my ribs. and mind u, it looks like i'm wearing a tube top...dont' exactly have the chest for it though...keeps slipping down.... anyway, discuss if anything remotely related has happend to you. thanks you, and happy new year -sars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted January 2, 2006 Share Posted January 2, 2006 good luck with that man i kinda felt a pain in my ribs as i was reading this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^ . ^ Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 if it was cracked you'd be having some major problems breathing.. you should still go get xrayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neskoner Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 ive had rib pains before..but nothing extreme.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Birch Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 umm, did you ever think of going to a doctor? thats what I would do...and if you had a bad cough, you should've taken robitussin dm...that helps wicked bad coughs... but I will say, I've had a bad cough for the last month, and it hasn't hurt my ribs, but all my innards hurt, like my liver and my chest/heart hurts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 i have cracked a rib before and it fuckin hurt. i sympathise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest -40 trooper Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 "me" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 of course i've thought about going to the doctor, but the only thing the doctor would do would take an x-ray, and tell me to take some advil to kill the pain, and wait for my ribs to heal....b/c there really isn't anything a person can do ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Maybe he'd give you pills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 i must have read that shit too fast cause i was under the impresion that you did go to a doctor, i assumed thats why you go that brace man, just go to a doctor he might tell you that youre seriously injured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 NO, but I have done some intercostal muscles before, shit was udd painfull. Every time you laugh it hurts, I developed this really shallow tiny laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloner Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 ive broken a few ribs in my day..i usually just think its pain for a day or so, but then you can notice it when you take breaths, just be careful and rest it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOOGLE? Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 got stomped by skinheads a long ass time ago.. shit hurts alot.. i would say go get an x-ray just to make sure.. and dont be like my dumbass and not go..ribs tend to heal funny . its been 9 years and i still get sharp pains when i slleep/lay on my side for too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 damn are you serious? my mom asked me if i wanted to go to the emergency room, but i declined.... hmm i'm not all about having funny looking ribs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubbeRBand Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 It is probably just a pulled/bruised muscle. I have the same thing, but under different circumstances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 ^let's just hope that's the case, i would like to think my bones haven't been broken from such a dumb reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezpot Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Did this progressively start to hurt or was there some kinda impact? :yuck: <"cracked ribs are yucky"says the emoticon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CinchedWaist Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 It really sounds like a muscle. It would take way more than coughing to crack your ribs. Sometimes my ribs sound like they crack (between rib and sternum), but its like when i crack my knuckles. Unless you've had rib injuries before, I'd think it was a muscle. go to the doc and get it checked out so at least you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conspiringone Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 yeah yo, you should just go to a doctor to see what the deal actually is instead of guessing.... i fucked my ribs up skateboarding and never got it checked out by a doctor, but that shit hurt for mad long and i had trouble breathing...my dad told me to stop bitching and that there wasn't anything i could do, but i would rather know what the deal was than not.....i stopped bitching and eventually it stopped hurting, pain is a mental thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geezpot Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Seriously you should go to a doctor. You mentioned that it started out as a bad cough, could be an infection that is in your lungs and pushing pressure on your ribs. Maybe a lobar pneumonia or another common pneumonia. If you just ignore it and it is serious it could result in severe lung tissue damage maybe even loss of a lung. Seriously you should go to a doctor. Or go to this link and diagnose yourself... http://familydoctor.org/x2587.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Priest Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I cracked my butt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why write? Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 one time me and my friends were all beating the shit outta eachother, then one of them wanted to go home so we started calling him a pussy and that hes too scared to fight and shit, later on he went to the hospital and we found out that we cracked his rib......we felt bad for him after hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 from what everybody is saying, and from that online assessment quiz, going to the doctor is the availing prognosis. anywho, if the pain keeps being for tonight until tomorrow(ish), i'll go to the doctor and see what's up. thanks for all the replies. and high priest, you may want to use this: once again, thanks ch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUNBUNBIGGY Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I broke a few ribs before, it doesn't hurt so much as long as you don't take deep breaths. One time i broke it so bad that every time i took a deep breath my rib would crack and move. If your ribs are cracked from coughing, just take some cough medicine and be easy on the coughing, the rib will heal by itself. Get some of that promethazine stuff. :krunk: :king: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOx Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 take the pain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THANKYOU Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA, shit is mad funny to me for some reason. dudes like, i sneezed and cracked a rib, it sorta healed, i yawned and it broke again... man fool, youre ass needs to get your weight up or something, drink milk or something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 c'mon tease. i ain't no 90 lb emo bitch, on a snowball diet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcasm Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I cracked a rib in a motorcycle accident. If it was cracked...believe me...you'd know. It hurts to breathe. There is nothing they can do for a cracked rib other than give you meds....so start sucking it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 hahahaa i cracked SEVEN ribs and a COLLARBONE at the same time. it was an incredible, mind fucking pain just to breathe i don't wanna get into what sneezing felt like. i do sympathize but with those bones, all they did was lay me on a board and make sure i hadn't hurt my spine. if you only cracked one or two there is no treatment you'll start to feel normal again in 3-6 months don't strain yourself but i was painting fr8 yards again less than 4 weeks after that shit happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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