General Health Care

I am a 30 year old female and got punched extremely hard in my upper right rib cage just below my breast. For a whole minute I couldnt breathe. I was very scared. I am very skinny and I have no meat on my bones, so there wasnt much to protect my bones. Ever since then, it kills to lift myself up out of bed. There is severe pain when I cough, laugh and sneeze. I am in pain every which way I move. It hurts to toss and turn in bed and hurts to lay on my right side. It hurts when I breathe, but hurts worse when I exhale. I am able to get around and function, but I am very slow because I have to be careful how I move my body around. This is extrememly uncomfortable. I dont want to go to the doctor. Is there anything I can do to speed up my healing process? How long will it take? I dont know if my ribs are bruised, cracked or broken. Please help.

what is better for pain-aleve, advil or tylenol?

Over 15-20 yrs. for me.

my boyfriend just broke up with me because me and my brother were talking about him on myspace and my brother told me to dump him and my boyfriend read the messages and then he dumped me ill do anything i can to get hi back. i love him and im in so mutch pain i want him back and i want to say sorry and have him be mine agian before he moves on but how..??

What do you think will happen.

the 5-yr old girl got fractured and was in extreme pain - the hospital in town couldn't treat her, so they asked her to be taken to another town 1 hour from here. In that hospital the doctor didn't arrive for nearly 2-3 hours & when he finally arrived, the girl's parents were asked to complete the formalities & then the doctor asked them to go to another town even further away...finally, after 6 hours the girl recieved treatment. I mean even a normal adult can't bear a fracture for more than a couple of hours - but a 5-year old girl was made to do that for 6 hours...

i have seen a lot and they all seem like scams.... or foriegn countrys ...my insurence was cancelled and i had prescriptions, but no longer.............

I have heard and read many differing reports from as little as 800mg/daily all the way to 1600 mg daily. And besides that, what are the negative side effects of taking too much IB? I take about 1000mg a day for pain management compounded with a narcotic, but have noticed no ill side effects yet. Anybody informed about this issue? Thanks!

It's very painful, but I don't want to do something wrong and injure my foot.

He's not having serious surgery- it's a relatively quick procedure but I know he'll be scared to be at the hospital and possibly seperated from us.