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Q: xiphoid process catches muscle tissue

asked by: shu101 on February 2nd, 2009

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First let me give you a little back ground of myself. I am small framed and recently had a set of twins, rather lrg twins, ever since then my xiphoid pr. has been sitting in a differ position. When i stretch or left my leg up to put lotion on, tie my shoe or sometimes just bend at the right side it feels like muscle tissue or something gets stuck between my ribs and xiphoid pr. to the extent of me not being able to move its gotten so bad ive almost past out from the pain. I cant get up until i have massaged the mass out from infront of my top rips. Not sure if i should worry about this matter please help

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ACI1983

replied on March 12th, 2009

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xiphoid process

I have also recently gave birth to two large twin boys. During the last month of my pregnancy ( July) I noticed a "bump" on the bottom of my sternum. I got really nervous and brought it up to my OB and she replied, " it feels like your xiphoid process" so I felt at ease. Now the boys are 7 months and the bump is still there. It hasn't grown or anything but I just cant remember if it was ever there before. So I did bring it up to my nurse prac. at the OB during a check up she said it is a bone and not to worry. So the only thing I can think is maybe because of the growth of the belly it pushed the bone or maybe it was always like that and I never knew. Dont know if this helped....

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