Can losing weight make your ribs hurt???

Since June I have lost 10 pounds I am now 5 foot 10 and 146 pounds

Latly my ribs have been hurting sometimes it feels like something is trying to pull my ribs out of me sometimes the pain feels lime it's under the rib the pain is alloyed the place usualy the top ribs right under my breast a d sometimes the bottom rib.

Could me losing weight be making my ribs hurt??? If so will they start hurting more and more as I lose more weight??? Because I still want to lose 14 pounds.

[ParamedFlorena]

First some normal physiology :-)

The rib cage is surrounded by muscles. They all aid in respiration. Naturally, if we stress, hyperventilate or feel anxiety etc, the respiratory muscles tense. This can make us feel exhausted.

Along every rib, there are nerves. If these nerves slip out of their tracks, it can cause an intense, stinging pain.

Range of motion-exercises usually helps for this. Let your arms swing along your side, being relaxed in the shoulders, breathe deep and end off with some stretching of your arms.

I can't count the emergency responses I've been to with quite young persons thinking they have heart attacks. The panic itself is often making the pain more intense. Most times, it's only the respiratory muscles wanting to de-tense.

I've never heard of weight-loss causing chest-pain.

If the pain gets so intense that it inhibits your respiration, you should seek medical attention. Respiratory problems can in some situations cause exhaustion - somethnig that's common for asthmatics and COPD-patients. If you have asthma, you should run this by your doctor (something you could do anyway).

Florena

[Bran_Bran]

Yes I do have asthma but I'm not sure of the last time it bothered me. I think it may have bothered me in the summer because it Burt to breath but I'm nit sure if that was my asthma because it hurt my throat not my chest. It felt like my throat was being sweeqed shut in the Sumer when it hurt to breath. But latly my chest and ribs have been hurting. I was just wondering if it's related to losing weight because it's only been recently that it started hurting. The other day all I did was sniffle and the rib pain came it knocked the breath out of me and for half and hour to an hour every time I sniffled it Hirt my rib. Now my ribs just been hurting off and in for the last month or so.

[Bran_Bran]

Also you said it can make you feel exhausted, I have been wife tired even more then usual were I'm alread always tired. But I've been blaming that on the cold or flew or what ever it is that I have had for at least a month now. But also I blame in general being tired all the time on I think I'm depressed and I know that's a symptom so that's my guess.  

Can cracking your neck or back make the nerves slip??? Sometimes when I crack my neck I feel it in the opposite arm if the side of the neck I was cracking. Also I throw my neck back alot because I always get shivers up my neck and sometimes I feel somthing role in the back of my neck. My neck crams when I throw it back now because I do it so often. In Febuary I was at a swim meat and my neck hurt so much I couldn't move. It was a pulsing stabbing pain that moved up my neck to my head on the left side and started hurting on the right until I put ice on it. Could that be connected to nerves???

I know that I may be off topic but I was just wondering if this all could be connected???

My friend pointed out to me in the summer that I don't swing my arms when I walk they stay completely still. I never noticed this until she pointed it out

[steph16173]

my ribs have been having the same problems i think it's because i've been losing weight i'm 10years old
                      stephanie

[Bran_Bran]

Oh darling, are you trying to lose weight? You are 10 my dear and that is not the time to worry about weight. However I know it happens. If you would like feel free to send me a message! <3 

Btw I know it's a hard struggle but its totally worth fighting it when it's all done and gone! :) :D I can promise you that! :D

[skydivediva]

Steph...Listen to Bran_Bran. She's a smart girl who has worked very hard to overcome some challenges of her own & she is giving you good advice! Lose weight ONLY if your doctor has recommended it and is supervising you.

[cathysmith07]

Its not the ribs that hurts but your stomach.

[Bran_Bran]

No it's my ribs. And they still hurt sometimes, but I talked to my doctor and he said it was likely just muscles out of place. And my friends mum who is a nurse in training said it could be electrolyte i balance from losing weight.

Anywho.