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What Causes Severe Pain In Torso While Yawning Or Breathing?
Question: Hi. I have been having pain on my left torso. When I yawn or breathe in deeply, its a sharp pain. Also, midway down my ribs is sore to touch. When my physician did an x-ray, he said I was constipated, but I looked up symptoms and didn't really have the symptoms other than not having a bowel movement in 3-4 days, which is not normal for me. I used to go at least once a day. This has been going on for about 3 months now. I was also diagnosed with a 9 centimeter kidney stone in my right kidney and had lithotripsy done on Aril 4,2015. I also am still having pain from that.
Brief Answer:
Could be Kidney Stone .
Detailed Answer:
HI
Greetings from Dr.Divakara.P
Thanks for posting your query.
Well even I feel its not due to constipation. The possible causes are :
1. Infections/Inflammation in the lung : Though a normal X ray will rule out infection but if X ray is done in the early stages of infection then it may not show it and falsely show it as normal.
Inflammation of lung / Lung covering called Pleura is a good possibility. This inflammation is more common in smokers , patients of Autoimmune disease.
2. Kidney Stones : Stone in the left kidney can cause the pain . Since you had stone in the right side , the likelyhood of you having stone in left kidney is high.
3. Pancreatitis : This is a condition where the Pancreas ( situated on the left upper abdominal quadrant ) gets inflamed causing the pain mainly in the abdominal region but sometimes it can cause pain in the ribcage.
4. Thoracic Radiculopathy : This is a condition where the nerve giving pain sensation to the ribcage gets compressed between the back bones causing pain.
I would recommend you the following tests for the evaluation of above conditions. Kindly get these tests done and revert back to me .
CT Chest and Abdomen, Serum Lipase and Urine Routine . If these reports come normal then you need to get MRI Thoracic Spine.
Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarification feel free to ask .
Regards.
Could be Kidney Stone .
Detailed Answer:
HI
Greetings from Dr.Divakara.P
Thanks for posting your query.
Well even I feel its not due to constipation. The possible causes are :
1. Infections/Inflammation in the lung : Though a normal X ray will rule out infection but if X ray is done in the early stages of infection then it may not show it and falsely show it as normal.
Inflammation of lung / Lung covering called Pleura is a good possibility. This inflammation is more common in smokers , patients of Autoimmune disease.
2. Kidney Stones : Stone in the left kidney can cause the pain . Since you had stone in the right side , the likelyhood of you having stone in left kidney is high.
3. Pancreatitis : This is a condition where the Pancreas ( situated on the left upper abdominal quadrant ) gets inflamed causing the pain mainly in the abdominal region but sometimes it can cause pain in the ribcage.
4. Thoracic Radiculopathy : This is a condition where the nerve giving pain sensation to the ribcage gets compressed between the back bones causing pain.
I would recommend you the following tests for the evaluation of above conditions. Kindly get these tests done and revert back to me .
CT Chest and Abdomen, Serum Lipase and Urine Routine . If these reports come normal then you need to get MRI Thoracic Spine.
Hope this information was useful to you.
Any clarification feel free to ask .
Regards.
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