Anyone else have pain in their upper torso? Some days I feel like I have a big vice grip or shrink wrap around my upper torso and someone is pulling it tight. Some days I also have a lot of severe pain around my ribs. It is difficult to explain. My chest is also bothersome. I am not really short of breath but my chest often feels inflamed. Has anyone else experienced this? Does this sound like Babesia?
Posted by DeniseNM (Member # 11182) on :
I get something similar.
Sometimes there is a ring of pain around my ribs and back. It'll come on suddenly, and while it lasts, I have a real hard time moving my torso. Almost feels like a muscle spasm. Sometimes I can get it to let up a little if I can find someone to rub my back a little.
I have no idea what it is or what causes it, but it eventually goes away, and I tend to blow things off that don't cause a huge dent in my lifestyle or that don't last. Probably not the best way to approach this stupid disease, but I have to go to work every day and if I didn't go when weird stuff happens, I'd never be at work!
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
yes me too. also get extremely short of breath, like someone is hugging me way tooo tight.
Posted by PossibleLyme (Member # 24062) on :
Thank you for your responses. "Ring of pain" and "hugging way too tight" are very good ways to describe it. I'm guessing then that it is a symptom of Lyme since others have it as well. Since it is in the chest area, I wondered if it was a symptom of Babesia.
Posted by mwhite18 (Member # 17777) on :
I get this too..I've been in tx for a year and some change. Its a fairly new symptom I've gotten since I started back on Mino. It usually only happens when I get anxious.
Posted by Nicole_Denise (Member # 20620) on :
I've heard of something called the MS "hug" from a friend of mine, and it sounds exactly like what you describe.
BUT, because Lyme can be mis-diagnosed as MS, that doesn't really tell you anything. Sorry
Posted by glm1111 (Member # 16556) on :
Check out "Bells Palsy of The gut" There is a very good article on it written by Dr Virginia Sherr. You can type it into the searcg bar here or google it
Gael
Posted by shelly23 (Member # 16124) on :
Me too but where the rib cage ends at the bottom almost feels like my muscles are sore, like I did a hundred sit ups
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
I get this as well. I was thinking it was inflammation in the rib cage.