How to relieve pain

Sorry- you may need more info. I have been to the ER twice for the same symptoms.All tests are negative. Sharp pain between and under shoulder blades. First time was the left side second time was the right. Pain in solar plexis and rib cage, feels like someone used me as a punching bag. Also sharp pain in chest and painful when breathing. After reading other posts am convinced it is gas but there are no meds to relieve this type of gas!!! How do I relieve pain so I don't have to go to ER? Pain on scale of 1-10 was an 11. They had to give me a shot of morphine so that they could do tests. Please help!

[ggreg]

If it's truly gas, I've had that where the pain doubled me over and all I could do is lay around in a ball.  A relative told me to take alka seltzer, and bingo, the gas pain went away.

But the location of your pain doesn't sound like where gas usually strikes.  If you can remember wrenching your back doing something recently, it sounds to me like spasming muscles, so if you think that might be it, have a friend or relative rub out your back in all the places it hurts, might take a few times.  Also, you can lay on the floor with your legs up in a chair, that takes all the weight off the spine, and just relax for a few minutes like that.  I hurt my thoracic spine in a car accident and where your pain is, that's where mine is, and it comes from muscle spasms.  If you get relief from that, and yet it keeps coming back, then the doc needs to do an X-ray or scan of your spine.

One more thing is pneumonia, where the lungs get fluid in them, and it really hurts to breathe.  If you have a fever and in general feel really miserable, a chest X-ray would reveal if your lungs are clogged up, and they can give you medicine to help you with that.  Hope something of this helps, that's all I know about from experience.

[jeepmom77]

Actually all of your info really helps. My sister told me yesterday that she once had a pain in her solar plexus that went straight through to her back and her chiropractor told her that one of her vertebrae was out of line and was causing the pain. I don't remember doing anything to injure my back but it just takes one wrong movement. Rather than swallow a camera on the end of a tube, I think I will try my chiropractor.

Thanks!

[lucinda1675]

get checked for gallstones

[ggreg]

I agree with Lucinda, too, along with my other advice.  And I didn't realize they were going to do the camera thing, which I don't think you should put off just becuz I mentioned back pain.  And also be careful with that chiropractor thing becuz you really only need a massage, and if the massage works, then you get an X-ray or scan to see what's going on...a chiro can inadvertently make a serious undiagnosed back problem worse, but maybe you're more familiar, I'm just warning you.