anyone have or had costochondritis ?

[melsy]

Im getting right fed up with it, have been taking 400mg ibuprofen for 2-3 weeks and its actually getting worse.

I can just about turn over in bed when sleeping and if my dd's happen to lean on me there its so bl**dy painful. Im dreading school run as it means lifting dd2 in and out the car and the buggy too.

I know youve all heard to many sob stories my end due to health , but Im just so frustrated with having something else now.

Im thinking of getting some acupuncture as that's meant to be good for it, as its both physiological and psychological (linked to intense stress).

What has been helpful for you ?

May be Im the only one then !

I have/had costocondritus after a car accident last october. pain relief for me was the ony treatment, but to be fair mine only came from the fact that I had hit the steering wheel and so it inflamed all the ligaments between my ribs, not cos of any stress reason IYGWIM.

have huge sympathy as it was over 4wks before I could bear wearing a bra again, and even now it flares up when I left my 5yr old (not often nowadays, but I still do occasionally, and it sooooooo hurts after).

my doc told me it would be a month of intense pain, and then would take 6/8mths to heal completely.

not much help to you I know, but you are not the only person to have had it/suffer from it.

oooooh, and it was volterol that I was given, and still take when tis very bad.....ibrufen would not touch the pain!

also prescribed codien, but then I also had other injuries and pain, so probably not ideal for you!

ahhh psychomum5 that must have been nasty for you. How are you now with it , when was the accident?

Mine has been a mixture of weeks and weeks of an upper respiratory virus which made me cough and cough for hours and hours every night , fortunately that has passed and then I think some very intense anxiety about several things all mixed together.

Ive been urged to go back to gp , I thought the next step was cortisone injections , but as youve mentioned volterol may be I can discuss that 1st. This same gp said I had asthma and put me on steroid inhalers , then hospital said it was pleurisy and this gp disagreed , still said I had asthma (asthma nurse disagrees !), but also said I now have the costo thing. What a palaver Ive been through !! (for a bleeding change )!!!

and MY WORD doesn't a bra hurt , it makes it doubly worse, as does sneezing , coughing , breathing in , lifting !!!!! Im fine if I just stand up straight and dont move much lol. Its actually ok until I do any of the things listed!

Someone said they put a dog down for less !!!!

ooh....my sympathies......sounds painful AND you've been so ill otherwise

accident was 22nd october just gone, so only now been 10wks, and tis only about every other day I am in pain now, and not all day at that. for the first month was hell....all the time, and breathing/moving/speaking/everything HURT.

in fact, for the first 2wks I kept fainting everytime I stood up as I was breathing so shallow I wasn't breathing enough to exert myself IYGWIM. I was on diazapam too at that time tho as everything (entire body in fact) was in spasm, so the floatyness was excacerbated by the meds.....increasing the fainting!

once I was on volterol things slowly got easier, not least cos it is an anti-inflammitory(sp?) and so helped with pain and inflamed muscles/ligaments.

and like I said, it took a month before I could wear a bra again, but luckily I had many vest tops with the built in support so that helped immensly (altho lifting my arms to get them on was an exercise in itself!!!!).

now tho, it is just lifting that aggravates, altho am desperately hoping I avoid the cough that the kiddies seem to have at the moment, as am sure it would all then flare back up.