Does anyone experience rib pain with their osteoporosis

Posted by mathompson @mathompson, Dec 13, 2024

I have osteoporosis and i experience rib pain and sometimes popped cartlidge. I’m doing the evenity shots but this was going on before the shots. Does anyone else have rib pain with their osteoporosis?

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mathompson | @mathompson | Feb 1 2:55pm

In reply to @jaybee51 "Hope you find find some relief. Please post your results if you stop the meds. Thanks" + (show)

I will definitely keep you posted.. ill know on the 12th..

mathompson | @mathompson | Feb 2 9:48am

In reply to @jaybee51 "Hope you find find some relief. Please post your results if you stop the meds. Thanks" + (show)

I definitely will

teedlum | @teedlum | Feb 2 10:46am

Yes but it may be from my arthritic spine…so I don’t know. But I sure don’t like it. No help from the AMA though.

andreasac | @andreasac | Feb 2 10:51am

In reply to @jaybee51 "I have osteoporosis and have had pain in my rib area. Have had X-rays and MRI..." + (show)

Hi I have had rib pain for 6+ years and I saw a couple of doctors and no one can figure out the cause. It occasionally goes away mysteriously for a few months and then returns. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis just 3 months ago. Now that I’m reading this I wonder if it’s related? But the going away part doesn’t really make sense if that was the cause.

jaybee51 | @jaybee51 | Feb 2 3:46pm

Hope you find a solution. If you do, please post it here. Thanks!

mathompson | @mathompson | Feb 2 4:17pm

In reply to @jaybee51 "Hope you find a solution. If you do, please post it here. Thanks!" + (show)

I will for sure

2connie | @2connie | Feb 3 1:49pm

I think my rib pain may be due to computer use although it's on my left side, and I am right-handed.

fairchild | @fairchild0344 | Feb 5 2:31pm

In reply to @andreasac "Hi I have had rib pain for 6+ years and I saw a couple of doctors..." + (show)

Your experience is close to mine. My GP identified ‘punch-outs’ occurring on my ribs that appeared to heal and then appear in other areas. At the same time I had a hard fall and broke my pelvis which incidentally healed well. There was no mention at anytime that I had osteoporosis. Although I kept complaining about my rib pain so she sent me to an internal specialist who did a tissue biopsy but results were inconclusive. Now a year later he wants to do a bone biopsy to rule cancer.
The specialist took a tissue biopsy which came back non inconclusive and now a year later he wants to rule out cancer. My blood tests and ct scans show no evidence and I am rethinking going through with a biopsy that may only again be inconclusive.
I would rather just concentrate on my health, with proper nutrition, strength training, balance and intensity and all the other things to go towards living with osteoporosis

mathompson | @mathompson | Feb 5 3:18pm

In reply to @fairchild0344 "Your experience is close to mine. My GP identified ‘punch-outs’ occurring on my ribs that appeared..." + (show)

Thank you for sharing your experience.. it becomes debilitating at times. I was diagnosed with osteoporosis like 25 years ago . I had to have a hysterectomy when i was 30 and never was told to take anything. Now im suffering for it. Im doing the evenity shots and shes thinking the pain is from the shots. I started them in November and have been having pain since. Im scheduled to get an mri on my back on monday then i see her on Wednesday.. so i may have to stop the shots. The pain is unbearable…
Before this all started i would have popped cartilages and it would be painful for weeks ..
I cant lift anything heavy or lean over something bc it would pop.. im sorry that you cant seem to get answers 🙏🏻

teedlum | @teedlum | Feb 5 3:28pm

In reply to @fairchild0344 "Your experience is close to mine. My GP identified ‘punch-outs’ occurring on my ribs that appeared..." + (show)

I would do the same as you have chosen. Have you looked into what the data shows for when women started having so much osteoporosis? I just wonder if it is a loss of estrogen. After they started to deny giving us estrogen in pill form so it would help with all of the estrogen receptors we have throughout our bodies.
Wishing you and well all of us the best.