Hello, I also suffer with a lot of pain in chest/ribs I thought I had widespread arthritis and was told last year that was causing the pain all over my body. But after I had bloods done by a different doctor that’s when Haematology got involved and like you flooded me with information and my brain was frazzled. I temper explain to the consultant that my chest hurts but not as in inside of my chest and he nodded his head and said that’s a symptom.