There are other strange rib pain causes as well. Anxiety makes you more likely to toss and turn in your sleep, for example, and this may lead to rib pain. It's also possible for ticks and breathing issues that people use to cope with their anxiety to lead to stress on your ribs.
Small HSV-1 sores known as herpetic whitlow can appear on the fingers, especially in children who bite their nails or suck their fingers, which spreads the virus from the mouth to the hands. When someone develops a primary infection, the symptoms may last from 2 to 4 weeks.
Attacks of white finger can also occur when a person is outdoors watching sports, or while gardening, fishing or golfing in cold weather. Typical attacks occur when cold or emotionally upset. Symptoms usually include: 1  Tingling and slight loss of feeling or numbness in the fingers, toes, nose or ears. 2  Blanching or whitening of the fingers, usually without affecting the thumb. 3  Blue skin that feels cold and numb. 4  Numb, prickly feeling or stinging pain, sometimes with redness, upon warming or relief of stress.