Hello Luann,
Welcome! I am fairly new to the website, too.I've only been diagnosed for about 3 weeks. I've been fortunate in that my symptoms have been on the lighter side for the past few years and maybe that is one reason it took so long to diagnose. However, I fell in my house about 10 days ago. I didn't hit anything on my way down but fell hard on my right side. The pain has been pretty bad so I went to see my doctor 3 days ago. I thought maybe I had broken or bruised a rib or two. The doctor thought maybe I had bruised some cartilage. Before the fall I had been having pain under my ribs on both sides, mostly on the right. It feels like the same pain only worse. She,the doc, told me to take 600 mg of Ibuprofen every 6 hours. It hasn't helped much at all. I think the fall just precipitated the original pain. Frustrated!!