On 30/05/2012 1:51 AM, Cheryl wrote:
> On 5/24/2012 3:46 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Especially at bed time. Broken ribs hurt a lot more when you are lying
>> down. Even as they start to mend you can feel them getting more
>> uncomfortable and then start to get downright painful. You know that it
>> is going to hurt to roll off them, and that the longer you wait the more
>> it is going to hurt so it leaves you in the position of suffering the
>> immediate pain or deferring it for a while and knowing it is going to be
>> so much worse if you wait.
>
> I know this is a little late to respond to this but I broke two ribs
> (why is it two? For me and for Gary? Weird.) in December and they are
> still tender. Nothing like the first month or two, but I can still feel
> one of them move sometimes. And yes, lying down is the worst.

I don't know how many I broke. I am not even sure where exactly which
rib(S?) were broken or where because the pain seemed to move around.
After a couple weeks it was tender at a place that had been less
sensitive to the touch than others, and later one I could feel two
deformed ribs at a different spot.

December? That's only 5-6 months ago. From my experience I would say
that you can expect to be feeling them for a while longer. In my case, I
broke mine when I got thrown from a horse on vacation at the end of
August 2010. It was about a year before they felt normal again. Then in
Nov. 2011 I had that emergency heart surgery that involved cutting my
rib cage open and spreading it apart. The broken rib was nothing
compared to that. I never was good at sleeping in my back and here I am,
a year and a half later, and whenever I roll over to sleep on my side or
my belly I think about how nice it is to be able to do that again

On 30/05/2012 6:17 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 30/05/2012 1:51 AM, Cheryl wrote:
>> On 5/24/2012 3:46 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Especially at bed time. Broken ribs hurt a lot more when you are lying
>>> down. Even as they start to mend you can feel them getting more
>>> uncomfortable and then start to get downright painful. You know that it
>>> is going to hurt to roll off them, and that the longer you wait the more
>>> it is going to hurt so it leaves you in the position of suffering the
>>> immediate pain or deferring it for a while and knowing it is going to be
>>> so much worse if you wait.
>>
>> I know this is a little late to respond to this but I broke two ribs
>> (why is it two? For me and for Gary? Weird.) in December and they are
>> still tender. Nothing like the first month or two, but I can still feel
>> one of them move sometimes. And yes, lying down is the worst.
>
> I don't know how many I broke. I am not even sure where exactly which
> rib(S?) were broken or where because the pain seemed to move around.
> After a couple weeks it was tender at a place that had been less
> sensitive to the touch than others, and later one I could feel two
> deformed ribs at a different spot.




Oops.... forgot to mention that the reason I didn't know was that the ER
doctor was so sure that I had broken ribs that he didn't bother sending
me for X-rays. My wife was upset about that but he said that it would
only confirm his diagnosis and would not affect treatment. He didn't see
any point in exposing my body to radiation just to confirm what was
obvious to him.