Why is it that sometimes when you cough you can feel it at the bottom of your spine?
477546
When you cough, you are using muscles, erectors are muscles that go up and down the spine so they would move and pull.
693898
Possibly.  And it is something that needs to be checked.  We use the same technique in patients that are experiencing a heart attack.  We call it the brady method.  When someone is having a heart attack, we tell them to cough forcefully or to bear down as if to have a large bowel movement.  This coughing process slows the heart rate, which would explain your sudden dizziness.  As for the headaches and the chest pain, that is quite understandable, since you are exerting high amounts of pressure on those muscles.  When you feel the cough spells coming on, see your doc and ask about a cough syrup such as guaiffennisen because one of these days, your coughing episodes may literally cause you to pass out, and if you are driving at the time, well, I don't need to tell you how dangerous that can be.
796573
If nothing else, you may want to have your spine checked. It could be that a slipped disk is irritating the nerves that go down to your legs.
590550
maybe sinuses or a cold? i know the feeling but i mainly get it when i have a head cold.
961087
They are checking for a hernis--aslip of the intestines through the muscles into the scrotum.  They make them cough because that forces everything down making it easier to feel a hernia
210006
When you cough, sneeze, and even poop you bare down and create pressure. This pressure makes heart work a little harder causing pressure to build up in your arteries, kinda like high blood pressure.\n\nI hope that made sense.
149173
You should contact a doctor. Your ribs can hurt for a variety of reasons but from what your describing with the pain in breathing it sounds like it's your lungs. Don't freak out, with these cough and cold symptoms its probably not too big a deal.If you let it go though you might end up with pneumonia and if that sits to long you end up with pluracy, which hurts your ribs more then you would like to find out. So don't bug but see a doctor soon.
828561
It's the nature of the beast. If a little thread of nerve is left around (as it often is) you feel the throbbing for a while
47249
Are you sure you don't have a dislocated rib?  If not it sounds like your rib pain is from a sprain to the tissue between your ribs.  There isn't really any other explanation for why it would hurt when your are coughing or sneezing.  I'm not sure what could cause your low back pain.  If you didn't strain it in any way.  You may want to consider that your pain could actually be referred pain from another area.  Your kidneys, appendix, testicles, and prostate often refer pain to your low back.  Your gull bladder and liver can refer pain to your left front ribs.  I'd see an orthopaedic physician for a second opinion if I were you.
270964
The virus hangs out in nerve endings in the small of your back. When they are inactive you feel nothing, when they are becoming active you get zaps in your toosh,down the legs and lower back pain. Its because the virus is in the nerve ganglia.
81004
Cough and Deep Breathe.
745778
Sounds like the doc said, an inflamation, maybe caused by an infection.  I've had it a few times, but normally following a rib injury, which does not have to be major. You don't breathe properly, or cough, so the air in the bottom of the lungs gets stagnant.
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it could be a number of things. i would go to the Dr. and have him check you out. do you smoke? if so and sometimes even if you don't it could be bronchitis. i know when i have bronchitis my cough really smells bad cause of the infection in my lungs, so i would go to the Dr. and let him check you out. or go to http://www.webmd.com/ you might get answers there.
966851
This is not a stupid qusetion.  When food 'goes down the wrong pipe' it goes down the trachea to the lungs instead of down the esophagus to the stomach.  The reason we cough is because our body does not want foreign objects in our lungs.  Coughing causes the object to be worked out of the lungs.  Should something stay in the lungs this can cause an infection called aspiration pneumonia which can be very serious.
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i'm not sure if this is the same thing but some times i feel a minor discomfort high in my chest, not pain though, not sure how to quantify it, and if i try to turn i feel a tighness and a point of what i'll call pressure. but if i arch my back and puff out my chest the slightest bit there will be a pop where the pressure was and the sensation is gone. its almost in the center of my chest where i am unaware of there being a joint so it always puzzled me too. so if you got what i got i think we'll be fine\n\ni'm a reasonably healthy 26yo just for the sake of info
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Try putting a heating pad on your chest while you are laying in bed. That might make the muscles relax a bit.\nAre you sure that it's your heart that is hurting and not your lungs? You say that you have insane allergies and cold right now. A cough in essence is a trauma to your lungs. Any type of heavy coughing causes everything to bump into one another in there. Think of it as a blender effect. If you are at all concerned I would talk to your allergist. They might be able to perscribe something to help with the coughing and it might ease your pain. Definatley seek help because there also might be a more serious issue in there. Granted I'm not a doctor but you don't want to dismiss anything when it comes to your health. \nHere's hoping for you to get well soon.
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It does sound like your back. Typically a pinched nerve in the mid thoracic area will affect an organ or nerve ending creating some pain. I would first get some deep tissue massage done on that area and see if it relieves some of your discomfort. Sometimes an imbalance in muscles will pinch those nerves in the spine. If it doesn't relieve it I would get a different opinion to find out what is going on.