So worried

Hey guys,

I'm back and unfortunately its not for a good reason. My anxiety has gone through the roof because I recently started having pain on the right side of my body. (not in the area for appendicitis) its moreso on the exact right side like if you were to look at me sideways, you could draw a straight line down my body and thats where the pain is, from under my ribcage down to my hipbone. Its been hurting for 2 days now, not excruciating pain to where I can't handle it, but out of a scale of 1-10, its definitely a 7, sometimes an 8. I'm a massage therapist and I know thats where my obliques are, I'm thinking I just pulled it really badly due to poor posture or changing my sleeping position too fast. I'm thinking its muscular because when I turn or twist to the right side it hurts even more. Icing it seems to help so thats what I've been doing..but you know anxiety, guys…it fills my head with all kinds of thoughts. Horrible, scary thoughts. I need some reassurance. Anybody pull their oblique muscle? Share your story? Anyone have something similar and it turned out to be something different? Any feedback and encouragement I would really appreciate…thank you.

I have side pain like that sometime, and it's because my bad lower back is out, from a vertebra that has slipped out, and I go to my chiropractor and he has me lay on my stomach and he pops it back in.

As a massage therapist, you already know this.

Have you ever been to a chiropractor?

You may have pushed out a vertebra, or caused a slipped disk lower down in your back, from bending over a lot, and applying pressure with your arms extended, repeatedly.

I know you already know about this, but I'm just telling you what has helped me.

I get this from time to time. Not the pain you described, but some muscle pain that I convince myself I am dying from. For a few months, whenever I did strenuous activity, my right hip would ache, and I thought I had something wrong with my ovaries. I pulled a muscle in the crook of my arm and thought I must have had a tumour there. Or I sleep wrong and my neck hurts in the morning and I think my lymph nodes are swollen. I basically just panic for the few days the pain is there, even though I tell myself I'm being ridiculous.