Johnny Rotten

I've never thought such simple things as yawning, clearing my throat, coughing, burping, laughing, lying on my side, or bending over to put my socks on could be taken for granted. But once you pull a chest muscle, every one of those actions is put in sharp relief. The thing about pain is that it also makes you sieze up a little, making every one of those actions a one-two punch as you feel the pain, flinch from the pain, then flinch from the pain of flinching.

Doubling the fun is that I can't really fall asleep on my back, but this injury won't let me lay on my side. Every time I do, it feels like the sore spot is about to knot up into a charlie horse. So I dozed on my back until morning, got up gingerly, and noticed my back hurt as well. As if that isn't enough, every step I take telegraphs vibration up my body, and this sore spot is right in the path of that.

I think the moral of the story is that it's easy to take a fully functioning body for granted.

Who else has been in this boat before?

jizzmasterp

Might I ask how you pulled it?

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omega2K4

You haven't felt chest pain unless you've had your stomach/chest cut open for surgery, then after surgery you sneeze. I guarantee you, worst. pain. ever. I would have killed a newborn child to stop it.

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yakimushi

The fourth rib down on my right side isn't connected to my sternum, hasn't been for years. I took a heel to the chest in a Tae Kwon Do sparring match.

I can't bench press, I can't get up from a laying down position without rolling onto my hands and knees, I can't sit certain ways, sneezing is agony, and occasionaly it really shifts and it feels like I've had a sword run through me. I get uncontrollable muscle spasms through my chest and in my back on my spine, and through my deltoids on the right side.

Doctors say that the only way I can get it fixed is to have a surgical procedure performed which is very similar to how the close up an open heart surgery patient.

I feel for you man.

DEI37

Yes. I pulled a chest muscle a couple years ago or so. It hurt to breathe.

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viejo gringo

yea---and that bitch stomped the hell out of me for pulling her tit..

Baldrick

I feel your pain... Pulled my Pectoral a few years ago, and then had a Wado tourney right after... It was an international tourney, so couldn't get out of it without screwing myself. Longest weekend of my life!!!

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Asuka{eve}

I pulled a chest muscle before. Seemed like I had pick up so many things after words.

Scorps

I never pulled a chest muscle, but I was sick 2 years ago and I puke 4 time on the hour every hour, and it hurt for a week after....same type of pain!

nfa

There was this bloke at the gym I go to. He entered into bodybuilding competitions and stuff.. Anyway, one day he did badly at a competition or something, and came into the gym in a really bad mood. He put his benchpress up wayyy above his max, cos he was so angry, and tried to bench it without a spotter. I hear this agonising scream, and look up to see the guy's shoulder halfway to the floor, and his chest torn open.. He was just holding the bar up and screaming for help, it was insane. He went to hospital, I don't know what happened after.

I'm sure his chest would have been sore after that...

Irishsean

You think that hurts... Try breaking your sternum halfway down your chest... in the middle of winter... while you have a cold...

Coughing, sneezing, and breathing felt like getting stabbed...

TheBrit

I have lumps all over my sternum where I've knocked ribs out of place, smashed my sternum up etc. My girlfriend is fascinated by my ribcage, it's quite disturbing. As a results I get muscle spasms in my intercostals all the time, it's not fun.

Daval

I pulled a chest muscle a number of years ago when I did a backwards dive into my swimming pool without warming up, It hurt so bad to lie down that I had to sleep in the lazyboy chair in a semi-upright position for about 3 days. It was brutal.

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water_boy1999

I pulled both interior pec muscles during a trampoline accident back in my high school days. It hurt like a sonofabitch. I couldn't do anything without the chest being affected. I tell ya though, you don't know chest or upper body pain until you shatter your collar bone. It is chest muscle pull X 1,000.

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Cadwiz

I never pulled a muscle but, I had a case of costochondritis in the military. It is basically inflamation of the inter-costal muscles (muscles between the ribs). Feels like sandpaper between the bones and flesh. Very nice for breathing.

Gloves

Hey John>had it for three days got up one morning and wham> I could not turn my neck without the pain shooting thru me to my chest. My Quote: You never know whats next:.take care>im out!