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!
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Oh hey.. I used to get those all the time as a kid!
Eventually I worked out that it could be made to instantly go away if I stopped breathing and just stretched my shoulders back and twisted in the same direction that the cramp was on
It always felt like a stabby, stabby muscle twinge right under my rib bones.
As I got older those random pains have me worried "is this a cardiac event?!" despite showing no other symptoms for one.
If you're able to access primary care they may be able to bill your insurance for an EKG yearly. Wouldn't catch everything but might notice if you pick up some a-fib or another lowkey issue that might snowball (although the main issue with afib is usually clots and afib clots usually hit the brain not the heart iirc).
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I was sure the image was of buttcheeks and hanging dong
I had that several times some years ago and eventually it went away. It's very anxiety inducing. Just above that thing when you get a cramp in your toes and they get stuck together for what feels like eternity.
Oh yeah that happens to me since I'm a kid. I was told it was harmless but never had source.
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.
Thanks ! Didn't know that was harmless. And people call me mad..
Wtf! I literally had this happen to me right before I scroll down to this post.
Hey, I know this one. I've had it since I was a small child but didn't quite know the name.
harmless
Crashed on a bicycle because of it. Broke nothing, but a few scars on my face still there
I wonder if it's genetic, or just very common. All five of my siblings and I have had this.
It's possible. I found this on the talk page of the wiki article.
I just figured it was related to my digestive system pressure because it would go away after releasing some gas.
What the fuck?? I had this as a teenager. Nobody could ever find out what the fuck it was.
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...
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.
Okay, you can't start a story like that and then not tell us the cruiseship story in full glory.
Ok, the quick version:
I am small waisted and was especially so when I was an underfed child of early teen years. My mother was going through her ~~4th?~~ 3rd Husband and decided to get married on a cruise ship this time.
Well on the pool deck there was a water slide and a leak underneath said slide, I slipped on it and slid across the deck under the railing and over the side.
I didnt hit the water by the way. I hit the balcony railing of the first deck of cabins a couple floors below and bounced into the ship. I then not wanting to get in trouble bolted through the cabin saying something about a hat to the confused people, and told no one.
I ended up swimming to far on those broken ribs out at the beach in mexico and had to get saved by the coast guard who did not bring me onboard but drug me behind their boat via life preserver I was barely holding onto face down, so assumed the agonizing pain was that and I just sucked at swimming.
Also brought back Swine Flu on that trip and got my school shut down for handing out some shirts as souvenirs.
how the fuck do you fall off a cruise ship, break six ribs, have them fuse together, and never even realize it?
Do you just actively avoid going to speak to ANY medical professional unless forced by ambulance?
Ah so it is a known thing and has a name, yay! Thanks for sharing.
Oh so there is a proper name for this ! I have had those once in a while since I was a kid, and still get them well into my forties.
I do still remember the anxiety the first time it happened.
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?
This thing haunts me every few months since always. You can usually stop it by exhaling deeply and relaxing muscles in affected areas.
I think we call this a “stitch” in the UK
Nah, a stitch is side cramp when doing exercise
Know anything about a kinda dull pain in the sternum that comes and goes, which lasts a week or month, then is gone for a few weeks or months before it comes back. Has been going on for a few years at this point. Got all kinds of scans and tests done the first year but everything showed normal. I at least don't think I'm gonna die anymore but it sucks.
Pleurisy, costochondritis, gerd, or referred pain from radiculopathy, maybe. Especially if you have a sedentary lifestyle or back trauma
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I wonder if that's what my producer and I have, considering that we have this type of pain too.