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Ahh, this is fun. Every time I'm like "Is this it? Is this the one?"

But no, it never is.

See, I am unfortunate in that I know exactly where my chest pain comes from and it is from 6 of my ribs being broken and fused together from falling off a cruise ship and breaking them on a railing on the way down.

The interesting part is I didnt know I broke them until years later when I was hit by a car and the hospital doctor was just like "oh yeah you just hurt your broken ribs again, put some frozen peas on it and wait for the pain to go down"

Anyways, dont break your ribs unless you want to know when the weather is changing by pain.

Oh nice post. I totally have this.

Treatment: Reasurance

Its okay. You're not dying. Calm down.

The pain is agitated by expansion and contraction of the chest. Taking a deep breath and allowing the rib cage to fully expand can relieve the pain, however it will feel unpleasant initially. At the point of full expansion, it can feel like a rubber band snap in the chest, after which the initial pain subsides.

Oh I gotta try this.

Holy fuck it has a name.

Of course it has a name ..... Of course I'm not the only one this happens to.

I had no idea they had a name!

I've had it as long as I can remember, though not very often. It would only be a few times a year I'd say...

I see legs and a dick in that drawing, not lungs.

For me, the way to deal with this was to raise my arms above my head in a stretch. Made it stop every time.

Thought I was having a heart attack the first couple of times it happened.

As an adult, I still have them from time to time, but not anywhere as frequently, though still without any warning.

Oh good so it’s not just been me dealing with this random pain for the last 20 years…

The first time it happened to me I was sleeping and the pain woke me up. I drank some whiskey and went back to bed to try to die in my sleep. Unfortunately I did not die peacefully.

My god it has a name... and so many people here seem to have it? I thought i was a freak for having this. Nobody else ever said anything about having similar pains.

As I got older those random pains have me worried "is this a cardiac event?!" despite showing no other symptoms for one.

Well thanks for sharing this. I've been getting this since forever. Now that I think about it though I don't think it's happened in a while.

Anyway, much appreciated!

Oh yeah that happens to me since I'm a kid. I was told it was harmless but never had source.

I've had this since before I was a teenager...decades ago. Still happens from time to time. I've always considered it somewhat like a cramp in my diaphragm and so always breathe just deeply enough that it starts to hurt then relax and next breath try a bit deeper and keep that up until I "work through it."

Ah so it is a known thing and has a name, yay! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this revelation. It has a name! All my siblings got these and they told me "it's a gas in your lung" which i ran with for years haha Once, still as a kid, i got it for 6 hours so we called a doctor. She diagnosed it as intercostal neuritis triggered by high and unusual physical excertion the previous day. Prescribed nothing

Sounds kinda similar to costochondritis, it is central chest pain. I thought it was a heart attack when I had it and went to the ER. Fortunately it was just costochondritis.

So it doesn't mean I'm low key having a heart attack?

Thank god.

I have experienced this many times in my life. Was always terrifying and painful til someone posted something just like this years ago. Now it's just painful. Still scares the crap out of my wife every time she sees it happen to me to though.

Description is pretty spot on, but it's on the opposite side for me. Are my innards flipped?

Crazy this just popped io as I just started experiencing something like this just this week.

We moved our living took around and the way the couch is positioned I tend to lay on my left side and propr myself up on my elbow.

Recently when I do this and breathe in I get a sharp pain right where the arrow is in the picture.

I have to stand up and breathe through it for it to stop. After a few occurrences, I noticed that if I press in the area it's mildly soar. I have to really feel for it to find it.

I have no other breathing problems so it really scared me that I had a broken rib. Although I haven't done anything that could have broken my rib.

I had it when I was a teenager. When I stopped playing Trumpet it seemed to go away. Maybe the larger lung capacity caused it?

I'd take this over proctalgia.

It's a spasm of the anal sphincter and it feels like someone jamming a hot knife into your asshole without warning.

Jesus. Thanks for posting this.

back in the day everyone told me it was in my head

Oh, good, I’m not dying.

Yet.

The best way to get rid of it when it happens is to fill your lungs as much as you can, and then bear down lightly like you are pooping. After that it’s gone.

Happens to me about 3x/yr and always has.

I wonder if it's genetic, or just very common. All five of my siblings and I have had this.

Yeah man, I’ve had this shit since I was a kid. Doctors never told me about this, couldn’t ever figure it out.

I don’t really get these anymore like I used to, but man they suck. As an adult it might hit me once a year and I’ll just be like oh yeah forgot about this. It’s just this crazy sharp pain in your chest, you can’t take deep breaths, just gotta pause and breathe shallowly till it passes.

My favorite time was when I was climbing a ladder up a roof, like really? Now?