pain under right rib cage. Hurts to breathe.

What a bunch of nit wits you all are. Me too, I have that or I have this.. My this hurts and my that hurts....Hypochondriacs all of you!

Dude if you're REALLY serious here and are in that much intense pain and can't breathe and you're posting on the internet then I'd have to say you probably deserve to die where you sit.

This is all very useful information. Thanks for posting everyone, it will help me with behaviors to lessen the impact of my chest pain.

This is really helpful, i thought i was the only one with this problem. It was really hard to sleep last night, had to sit in my couch the whole night because the pains felt like someone stabbing me, breathing in really hard to do too, it hurts alot. Is there anything I can eat/drink to take this pain away

That is really common for me; it comes and goes in periods of days or weeks. For me it feels like a very sharp pain when I take a deep breath...and then after that the desire to inhale deeply gets even stronger! I know it to be a "stitch". A stitch (or what I know of it) is a tightening in your muscle, and when your lung presses against it, it cramps up very fast...or something like that. I know it is not serious and my friends and family all get them. Yeah, it sucks, but it helps to have a little knowledge on what it is.

I had this problem when i was younger, it was diagnosed as heart murmur, which is when the tendons in your heart are not strong and blood mixes from un-oxygenized and oxygenized blood. I grew out of it, but still experience 'attacks' every now and then. Ask your doctor about it. Get an mri of the heart or ekg? ...

For those with sharp pain with breathing...
Another alternative to costochondritis (which I've also had) is PLEURISY. That's an inflammation of the lining around the lung, and it causes similar pain (although with me, the costochondritis pain, if I remember right, was closer to the sternum and in between the ribs; with pleurisy, my pain has been the lower half of my ribcage, but with referred pain to the shoulder and also the abdomen, the latter because apparently the pleural lining on top of the diaphragm was involved.) I just wanted to mention the pleurisy diagnosis as it apparently is not that common and can be missed. On top of the sharp pain in the ribs, you can also feel a kind of rubbing feeling of the lung itself when you have pleurisy. / btw, you can also a 'plerual effusion' (liquid between the membrane that lines the lung and the one that lines the ribcage; sometimes present with pleurisy, sometimes not; sometimes present w/out pleurisy). They don't do anything if it's a small amount. But if it's alot they have to drain it or it can collapse the lung.

Hope you're all feeling better!

wow i hope you feel better now

hi i'm 41 and i have a sharp pain as well in my right side of my rib cage, its hard for me to breathe , move, and do everyday functions. I've been to the ER because this happened before and the doctors could't find anything wrong with me. I was kept in the hospital for a whole week because they seemed to think it was my appendix because my white blood count was elevated two times the normal amount, which indicated i had an infection that could not be located. i don't know if this has anything to do with this I always have blood in my urine, which i have had tested and was a waste they couldn't find anything. I am also a pack a day smoker. Also my belly becomes very extended. I have a tough time with my bowel moments as well.

I get this pain a lot too. A very sharp pain comes along and then when you breathe its so painful, almost feels like your lung is ripping? Or just feels incredibly tight and as if you cannot breathe any further.
I have had this for quite a while now, on and off for quite a few years. But today has been really bad, since I woke up which was 11am until now (and continuing...) which is 00.49 it has been happening.

Hope it is nothing serious tbh, but if so, I have wondered wether it be a collapsed lung?
Hope not, seeing as ive had it for years =/ x

i have that exact same problem. only my pain started in my lower back on the right side and the doctor said that it might be from a pulled muscle. well that is all well and good, but the so called "pulled muscle" did not get better, as they usually do. no this pain has migrated to under my rib cage on my right side, and it hurts to breathe, it hurts to lay down, to laugh, sit, walk. what do i do. and i do have kidney disease, but they did catscans and mri and nothing showed up. my stomach has become very bloated and i am wondering if i should go back to a different hospital for a second opinion, because in my opinion if it were as simple as a "pulled muscle" the problem should not be getting worse but better. i have had it almost everyday, this pain, going on two weeks. im so frustrated with doctors i dont know what to do????? i was in the hospital for a week and they could not find a single thing wrong with me. although they said it could have something to do with my pancreas. is there no test for that???