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Pleurisy In Back Rib Cage

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Dr. Rajinder Bajoria MD

movable lump on right collard bone next to throat. Coughing, pain in lower right back under rib cage and exhausted for 12 months. Diasngonsed with lung infection , pleurisy, atypical pneumonia... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rajinder Bajoria ( General Surgeon)
Dr. Muhammad Ali Rauf MD

gave me an xray eventually and said that it could be pleurisy . been to see my doctors a couple of days ... symptoms worse. i went back to a and e and they gave me an inhaler which saw some improvement.... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Muhammad Ali Rauf ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Mukesh Chugh MD

Extreme jount pain. Was the low back, now all over. Refractory codtachondritus, pleurisy , easy infections that take months to heal. Low grade fevers ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Mukesh Chugh ( Orthopaedic Surgeon)
Dr. Grzegorz Stanko MD

My husband has had pleurisy and on the X-ray they found a lump between his rib cage they said it was a lipoma growing in the muscles and said to give it 3 months then go back to see them but... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Grzegorz Stanko ( General Surgeon)
Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar MD

and the front of my neck. Are these signs the pleurisy is coming back? ...I recently had a bout of pleurisy . I had a steroid injection and then too a steroid pack. I ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar ( Pulmonologist)

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Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar MD

I was diagnosis with pleurisy last Tuesday, and am still having sharp pains in my right side of my chest, rib cage and right shoulder blade and lower half of my back. I have already had an EKG... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kaushal Bhavsar ( Pulmonologist)
Dr.  Amrut Sindhu V MD

pleurisy. I was prescribed steroids and I felt better. Now I m starting to notice that once again it s back. I recently read that pleurisy can develop eventually when you have polymyositis. Wil I... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Amrut Sindhu V ( Pulmonologist)
Dr.     Jnikolla MD

I had a bad case of pleurisy. I was hospitalized (only for 1.5 days). I ve been on aleve and colychine (sp?) for 2 years. I keep feeling like the pleurisy comes back periodically. Not bad like it was ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Jnikolla ( Pulmonologist)
Dr. T Chandrakant MD

I am experiencing severe pain on my left side, middle of my back, by my ribs, and the pain wraps ... eat or drink. It also pains me to move or bend on my left side. Is this pleurisy ? It started on 5/7 ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. T Chandrakant ( General Surgeon)
Dr.  Shinas Hussain MD

Two week ago I was diagnosed with pleurisy and a UTI. I took prednisone and an anti- biotic. Symptoms disappeared and within 3 days the pleurisy was back. I am on a second regimen of prednisone but it ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Shinas Hussain ( General & Family Physician)