... I currently have the flu and in my third day I am coughing and my rib cage hurts. What is this a sign of? ... (2 replies)

... now. As far back as i can remember I have always been a cougher, but the more I smoked the more I coughed.. I did quit about 4 months ago, because I was sick of coughing up big lumps of phlegm in the mornings, and I was also starting to get a pain in the bottom right of my rib cage. ... (4 replies)