A member asked:

For the last 3 days iv been having pain where my ribs go up in the middle it comes and goes but seems to be coming more often and lasting longer an mo?

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Substernal pain: May be reflux, gastritis could try ranitidine, or prevacid and see if i helps ( if not allergic) . may also be gallbaldder, rarely pericarditis or pancreatitis/ pancreatic lesion 9 depending on age). . if older consider cardiac disease or rarely pulmonary embolism. F/u/ w/ doc within 24 hours due to rare concern for pulmonary embolism

Answered 5/15/2017

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