I’ve been having muscle pain on the left and right side of my body in the ribcage area underneath my arms (lats) but the pain sometimes shoots into the front of my ribcage too. At first my doctor and I have come to the conclusion that the pain is muscle strain from working out. So I stopped working out about two weeks ago, pain went away, so I started taking protein supplements again 3 days ago but without working out and it seems the pain is starting to come back.
Does this sound like some sort of Kidney issue?
Chosen Answer:
Hard to comment on the protein issue – just watch out for the psychological angle in all this. Psychology can cause ungodly amounts of pain and distress – real pain too. And the pain will come and go without making much sense.
As you get older and older, you begin to realize that one heck of a lot of pain and distress isn’t “real” – it does hurt – but it’s some strange psychological deal the body gets into. You’ll notice that going to the doctor and getting a little reassurance will ‘cure” the pain – but it will come back later….
There’s a Dr. Sarno who wrote one very interesting book about this called “healing backpain” – you can get it for about nothing off of Amazon if you buy it used.
by: Morpheus
on: 8th September 09