Hello,
I am a 34 year old woman who has been sick since new year, It started with a chest infection/bronchitis which then progressed to pleurisy and it was round about that time that i tore a muscle/ligament in my right hand side chest with all the coughing.
I have just recently been diagnosed as asthmatic and the cough has much improved with 2 different inhalers but i am in total agony with this torn ligament, it started to feel better a few weeks ago but now is back to being just as sore as before, I had 2 x rays in Feb because they thought i had cracked a rib but they both came back clear.
After 7 weeks sick from work i had to go back but I'm still in a lot of pain and i can sometimes hear/feel a cracking in my chest if i cough to hard or like today when i was trying to clean the roof of my oven :(
I'm going back to the doctors tomorrow in the hope that they can refer me to a specialist as the pain has been going on for too long and its starting to really get me down, They just advise painkillers , I've been taking co-codamol 4 times a day and ibuprofen 3 times a day for months now which i know cant be good for me. Anyone out there who has any advise for me or has just experienced the same sort of thing i would be grateful to hear from
Thanks, Karen.