| This is all very helpful to me. I have a higher rib that is very mobile. I am sure it is a combination of lifting babies while cleaning, and while pregnant. I also read that this can be caused by just sleeping against a car handle, starts deteriorating the support. I'm remembering my last pregnancy, baby nestled under rib while I tried to sleep in that awful side position! It is not painful at all to me however I can feel it constantly and at times begin to feel a little clostriphobic, like an on going annoyance and I just have to force myself to relax so I don't freak out! I went to my doctor and he was sympathetic and offered an X-ray but told me to wait until it was at it's peak of annoyance. He said to insure getting stabbed by the rib was not a concern. It had been 40 days by the time it peaked and the referal had expired. I had to get another referal (wonderful military) So I went in, to a different doctor because it's whoever is avalable and this doctor was a . . . prick. He acted like I waisted his time and that getting an X-ray would just waist more time. He said "No doctor is going to operate on ribs unless they are broken" I wasn't even aware that was the only solution to consider. That was yesterday and I now plan on seeing a chiropracter! I do not have pain so I know it may be silly, but what if your rib felt like a loose tooth!? I do occasionaly have a spike in my chest, and have had severe pain in my upper back, which after reading about slidding rib sydrome could be related to pinching of the nerves from out of place ribs. Gosh that doctor was ignorant!!! | 
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