By Crystal Lindell Having chronic pain that can't be diagnosed or explained will take you to some pretty messed up places mentally. The best theory my doctors have come up with is that it's a delayed reaction to me having my gall bladder taken out in 2008.
By Crystal Lindell Having chronic pain that can't be diagnosed or explained will take you to some pretty messed up places mentally.
The best theory my doctors have come up with is that it's a delayed reaction to me having my gall bladder taken out in 2008.
The only issue there is that I had my gall bladder taken out five years before the pain suddenly started in 2013.
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By Crystal Lindell Having chronic pain that can't be diagnosed or explained will take you to some pretty messed up places mentally. The best theory my doctors have come up with is that it's a delayed reaction to me having my gall bladder taken out in 2008. The only issue there is that I had my gall bladder taken out five years before the pain suddenly started in 2013.
Part of me was secretly hoping it came back positive for cancer. The chronic pain I have in my ribs is just a few centimeters under my right breast, so deep down, I was kind of, sort of, hoping that maybe the cause of the pain that's plagued me for 13 years was actually a slow moving breast cancer the whole time. The official medical diagnosis for the pain in my ribs is "intercostal neuralgia," which is literally just medical jargon that translates to "rib pain." Yes, the pain in my ribs is "rib pain." There is no cure for intercostal neuralgia.
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