Hi everyone
Sorry, I seem to be posting every day atm!
I’ve just started getting rib pain multiple times per hour but generally it doesn’t sound anything like descriptions of the hug, it’s more like a …stabbing? A twinge? Maybe closest description for ladies is a mild period pain or early labour pain, but in the rib! It’s very short lived, a few seconds, except one occasion when it was at the bottom of my left ribs and lasted a minute or two and was painful enough that I had to breathe through it, more like a severe stitch but unprovoked.
Any idea of what this may be, or is it just “one of those things” that you normally don’t think twice about when you’re not in a state of heightened health anxiety?! 
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Thanks!
Hi Cc1
The ‘Hug’ can take on many different forms. For some it is like being constricted, for others twinges/spiky pains.
I always go down the route of a) what have I done to myself now? b) can it be sorted with a couple of paracetamol? c) if the previous answers are “don’t know” and “no” - it goes in my symptom diary.
If you don’t already have a symptom diary - now is the time to grab one and start noting down random/weird sensations, symptoms.
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