Extreme pain under rib right rib cage

[Miamiminc]

I was in a pretty bad car accident 8 days ago and broke my right foot thigh femar and pelvis I am in recovery and learning to walk and stand again. I am 24 year old female, my diet is excellent, and I am in shape. The pain started 5 hours ago in my right rib cage everytime i took a deep breath bc doctors told me to take slow deep breaths my right rib feels like it's being stabbed and collapse it's getting so bad i can only take small breaths and is getting so bad I keep bugging the nurses. A doctor took my xray bc I thought it may be ammonia but it's not...they're  not doing anything to help and they keep saying it's nothing wrong. What do I do please help I'm in pain and its getting worse. My ribs rant broke or bruised bc wouldn't they have hurt from day 1??

[alimcat]

Have you had MRI done since the accident. It is possible you may want to look into any possible spinal cord trauma, if it is there you want to be checked regularly to monitor the progress. If it shows nothing now and the pain continues it doesn't mean that there may not be injury to the spinal cord as it can take years for it to actually show up. Is this pain radiating from the spine area out, is it a deep sensation, almost feels like you want to pull on your ribs to stretch it? Can you explain a little more in detail what you are feeling?

[NOHARD]

Yes been there and sounds like a cracked rib, the pain killers you were on masked the pain your now getting, but should start going away very soon, if not get your doctor to give some pain killers for it, when I had mine I was put on some real good s**t kickers by doc UK doctor.
Good Luck