Why do I get cramps under my rib cage (ie my lungs)?

[shiiloh]

I don't know if I am quite in the right place for this question to be answered, but I think here may be a good place to start.

Now. I don't think it is anything serious but I would be intrigued to know why I get cramp under my rib cage (which looks like it is the lungs). It is very much like the stitch but in the wrong spot and I never get it after running or doing excercise.. like this morning for instance, all I was doing was walking around. I went to get my breakfast and there it was, the stitch that's in the wrong place.
The pain always occurs in the same place, in the left lung (or around because I don't know if it's to do with the lungs or muscles etc) just above my stomach.

Again. I don't think it is anything too chronic which is why I am on here not at my GP.. although if it does sound bad I think I will head off to see him.

Thanks for your help

[isaac2010]

cold water help me and took the cramps away very fast .just telling you something i stumbled when i was taking a shower and my two ribs cramps happened. i decided really fast to turn the water the coldest and less than a minutes the cramps where gone. hope this helps .

[scarlet717]

i have this problem i told my doctor and nothing it happen to me when im reach to gel something like putting my girl the seat belt or something like that. is actually in the side not in the chest. and is really painfull. i know cramps are usually that your body need pottasium ..

[tempthink]

hi, i got the similar problem, normally 2 noted condition i went through

1. sharp pain under the left ribs (never the right), pain mainly breathing related. i only have sharp pain if my chest is expanding but it went away in seconds most of the time, i had one which last longer and i thought i was going to die cos i cant breath as breathing was too painful that i had to take short shallow breath and grasping for air.  sometimes the pain occurs at the back and it feels like someone stabbed me with a samurai sword from behind and pierce through the left chest

2. dull pain where it feels like someone is pressing my left ribcage, tight feeling when breathing and the pain stays up to couple of hours, sometimes appears when sneeze

[Serina8181]

I have this problem too. I suspect it's a calcium deficiency. The anxiety a lot of people are describing could be from that too.

[AlanOt]

I have the same issue as most people here posted. I get the usual cramps from running, but sometimes the pain stays long after i stop. Its a throbbing pain underneath the right side of my ribcage. I try stretching this side but it doesnt really help. I had a similar pain once when i went on a rollercoaster, my heart felt like very sharp pains. I had heart sugery when i was 3 (there was a hole), but im pretty healthy atm (im 18 years old). I think it might have something to do with gases, as i have alot of stomach problems.

[KCKboy]

hey canada i have the same problem from time to time, maybe this is the same thing,

when i was 13 i spent many days at the town pool and one night after spending all day at the pool diving for things in the deep end and holding my breath as long as i could down there, i woke up in the middle of the night in extreme chest pains mainly when i took deep breathes like u. my parents took me to the ER as i was in so much pain and after all my tests my doctor concluded that the Lungs are a muscle and can be strained or "pulled" if u will like any muscle, he basically said i over worked it and i needed take some time off and not do any exercise that would get me breathing heavy so i did, i had this pain almost everyday for a few weeks then, it was once a week to once a month and now i'm 25 and i get this pain maybe randomly for a few minutes once in a blue moon(maybe every 6-7 monthes), i just stop and take light breathes and it goes away, so i dont know if the doctor was right but it did go away over time like he said it would so i hope this helps, i honestly cant remember the last time i had the pains now maybe a year or so :)