I have pleurisy. It hurts like hell. It's an inflammation in the lining of the lungs. In my case, the pain is localized to a spot on the right side of my back about the size of my fist. It's very hard to take full breaths, and it feels like I'm being stabbed in the back with a knife every time my lungs get about 50% full. Oh boy, it sucks.
Doc put me on a mega dose of anti-inflammatories, and they are helping A TON. Inflammation is down, pain is down, I just have to rest now. Back to a kind of normal life with a bearable amount of pain at this point.
WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS? - Because there is good news. If you find yourself in a huge amount of pain out of the blue, don't automatically panic. You may not be having a heart attack, you may not have burst your appendix/gallbladder/whatever, it may "just" be pleurisy, which is treatable with anti-infammatories and rest. And the sooner you talk to your Doc, the sooner you will get back to normal life and feel better.
That is all, carry on.
Doc put me on a mega dose of anti-inflammatories, and they are helping A TON. Inflammation is down, pain is down, I just have to rest now. Back to a kind of normal life with a bearable amount of pain at this point.
WHY AM I TELLING YOU THIS? - Because there is good news. If you find yourself in a huge amount of pain out of the blue, don't automatically panic. You may not be having a heart attack, you may not have burst your appendix/gallbladder/whatever, it may "just" be pleurisy, which is treatable with anti-infammatories and rest. And the sooner you talk to your Doc, the sooner you will get back to normal life and feel better.
That is all, carry on.