[hopeful27]

Re: Rib pain - is it from strained muscles or a bone lesion?

by hopeful27 on Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:46 pm

My mom has had this while sick at first too. She was very worried about fractured ribs. We spoke to her doctor and he ordered a PET scan. Luckily it was just from all the talking. You might want to get a PET scan done just to make sure!

[darnold]

Re: Rib pain - is it from strained muscles or a bone lesion?

by darnold on Thu Oct 08, 2015 5:31 pm

Hi Vic,

It was rib pain that set me on the path that ultimately led to discovery that I have myeloma, so I pay attention when they hurt. I always tell my oncologist.

So far, in the years since my induction treatment and stem cell transplant, it has always been pain from connective tissue, not a return of lesions. Better safe than sorry, though.

Dana A

[vicstir]

Re: Rib pain - is it from strained muscles or a bone lesion?

by vicstir on Tue Oct 16, 2018 8:17 am

Hello All.

Recently this pain has returned. Again after a cold and a lot of coughing. This time around, though, I wonder if it is related to my spleen in some way.

I have recently had a full body routine survey of bones, which was all clear. So I am not worried about it being bone problem.

If I put pressure on the area it feels like pushing on a bruise.

That being said, is it possible that something with the spleen is causing the rib pain?

Thanks,
Vicki

[dianaiad]

Re: Rib pain - is it from strained muscles or a bone lesion?

by dianaiad on Sat Oct 20, 2018 5:42 pm

Over the last two or three months I have dealt with rib pain, as well. It felt like someone was kicking me with hobnail boots. It was not pleasant.

I knew I had a lytic lesion on one of my ribs, and the pain was where they had identified that lesion earlier, so my doc ordered a PET scan, and there it was, on my sixth rib, rubbing up against the lung, causing problems.

I couldn't recline, lie on either side, or raise my right arm, and I never knew when the danged thing was going to 'nail' me otherwise.

I ended up having radiation to that lesion. The radiation oncologist let me know that I probably wouldn't feel any effect from that radiation for a week, but he, er, fibbed. I felt the difference that night, when I turned over in bed and did NOT wake up screaming in agony. In fact, within the next five days I was almost 'back to normal.' Oh, I still know it's there. The area is still sore and numb (can't figure out why 'numb,' but there it is).

The point I'm making here is this: I too have had bone scans, the x-ray sort, and they didn't pick up the lesion. X-rays might have, now that it is 'big,' or causing problems, but then again, perhaps not. They didn't pick it up last year when it wasn't bothering me, but was definitely there.

A PET scan, however, should. You have been advised by more than one person in here to get a PET scan. It would really be a good idea to do that.

And radiation works, by golly!