Sounds painful, V. Did you fall?
Psychophant, I have also fractured a rib once. Took me a week to figure it out, though.
Sucks doesn't it? I was lucky, after the assault, I was seen in the ER asap.
It does. My friend and I were being silly messing around, she fell over and I fell on her knee, my ribs getting the impact. I didn't notice the pain at first but because I was carrying a bag of books around for uni and walking a fair bit with them, gradually I found it really hard to breathe properly because of the pain so I went to the doctor and she said I had broken a rib. I just had pain meds for a few days but they didn't do much. It was just something I had to put up with and it went away slowly. Fine now.

And I agree with Callaway, V.