7 hours ago, billchao said:

Well this one is new: felt a sharp pain in my left side starting last week when I lay on that side or extend my left arm overhead. It’s just to the left of my nipple basically and kind of under my pec; feels like it’s right on top of my ribs.

I thought it was a minor strain but it doesn’t seem to completely fit an intercostal muscle or a serratus anterior injury. Last night I was probing around and it seems like something is inflamed that runs down my ribs from my armpit. If I had to guess I’d say it’s the long thoracic nerve, but I’m about as qualified to make that determination as I am to fix rockets.

Needless to say, there is no golf for me.

Sometimes a muscle strain in one place will strain a muscle elsewhere as it tries to compensate.

My neck and shoulder blade muscles are still screwed up, and sometimes I'll have a pain in the front of my armpit on that side. Which all stinks because none of them can be massaged very well.

It doesn't sound like that's your situation, really, but just throwing that out there.

1 minute ago, iacas said:

Sometimes a muscle strain in one place will strain a muscle elsewhere as it tries to compensate.

My neck and shoulder blade muscles are still screwed up, and sometimes I'll have a pain in the front of my armpit on that side. Which all stinks because none of them can be massaged very well.

It doesn't sound like that's your situation, really, but just throwing that out there.

Yea I get what you’re saying, but this is literally a tube of some kind I can trace with my fingers that runs down my rib cage. It’s definitely inflamed because I can’t find the same thing on my right side.

Nothing around it hurts when I massage it, but it’s tender to the touch.

Did you trip and land on a straw really hard? 🙂