Hi! I am new to this forum and wanted some suggestions/help. This is long, so be aware! In late December, I developed a dry cough that four to five days later went into the chest. I was in Chile at that time and was coughing the whole time.Many remedies were given to me including Amoxicilin thinking it was bacterial since nothing was happening. Nothing worked and the Amoxicilian gave me bad diarrhea and upset stomach. So when I got back to the U.S. , my dad took me to an urgent care center since I had no primary doctor at that time. It was January 13th and I was still coughing. She perscribed an inhaler and medication. It helped somewhat, but the cough now nearly two months later is still here and is still in my chest.

In the meantime, I went to go see my gynecologist for a check up and complained to her that my left side was hurting. We( me and my family) do not know why but assumed it is because of all the coughing. She examined me and thought it was a cracked rib and that it would take time to heal. She prescribed I bruprofen 600 mg for the pain. It was helping, but one afternoon in early February I was still in pain and when I made a right turn out of my high school parking lot, I felt/heard a "pop" around my rib area where the pain was coming from. I went home and just started bawling I was in so much pain. I still did not have a primary care doctor and went to the urgent care center for it. They examined me and took a X-Ray of my ribs and found that nothing was broken or cracked which was good, but still weird as to why I was still in so much pain. The doctor also said that the cough has gone on for too long and prescribed Zithromax to get rid of it. It helped, but was still coughing along with Skelaxin, a muscle relaxer thinking that the rib pain was a muscle inflammation and Ibruprofen as needed. I took those and eventually my left side became all better, but my cough is still here.

I eventually got a primary docter and because my cough is still there she prescribed another dose of Zithromax hoping that the cough would go away. Well, I took them and nothing happened. Am still coughing my wet cough and she said it was persistent brochitis. Now because I am still coughing, my right side is hurting in the same area as the left side. My left side is ok. My parents don't want to take me to get it X-Rayed again because they found nothing the first time around, so why should they find something else now, but am still coughing. My ribs/right side hurts whenever I touch it, bend over, twist to one side, cough, sneeze, basically anything I do it hurts. It is the worst at night when I first lay down to go to bed. Even just a simple normal breath hurts to do. I am taking the Ibruprofen 600mg but it is doing absolutely nothing for the pain. It sucks! I want to get better so bad!

In the beginning my parents thought it was shingles, but it wasn't and were happy that at that time the pain was on my left and not on my right side because appendicitis can happen/start there and spread. Now it is on my right side... should I be concerned? My Mom is more concerned about my cough lasting this long and not necessarily my side. She thinks I have too much drama. She although is considering taking me back to my primary care docter for my cough not necessarily my side although I will mention it.

Sorry this is so long, but mainly I am very concerned. Could it be appendicitis or just a muscle inflammation like the urgent care docter said?

now, I just noticed something else... these past two days my bowels have been green... not all the way, but discolored with green

Thanks to anyone who replies!