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Age countdown... odd Rib pain

I'm 69 yrs old and will turn 70 in 2 weeks.

I'm feeling a small ache (not a pain) that comes and goes in my rib cage.
It lasts for a few seconds then either moves around or stops. Anybody have
any idea what it could be? Didn't happen when I was at my doctor last week,
and intermittent.

Thanks in advance!
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Tweak anything?  Life anything?  Do any kind of exercise that involves that area?  I'm close to your age, and everything hurts these days after a lifetime of  a lot of physical activity.  Even doing abs could cause such a tweak.  Now, I'm not a doctor.  Nobody here is.  But I've had pain there before and it was caused by things I did.
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No tweak or lifting that I can recall lately. I'm chalking it up to the aging process.
Do any ab exercises?  That can cause it.  I would never attribute anything exclusively to aging.  Aging makes things worse, but doesn't necessarily cause them to arise in the first place.  At any rate, hope it goes away.
Well, it's gone away and hopefully for good.
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