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Costochondritis

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Has anyone had this?? :smile:

If so, what did you do? :smile:

thanks

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Reply 1

Ceri327

it might help if you told us what it was

Reply 2

hugatree

Ceri327

it might help if you told us what it was

Symptoms?

Reply 3

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sorry

Costochondritis is simply inflammation of the rib joints,
and attachments of intercostal muscles to the ribs, due to
persistant "bracing" of the intercostal muscles. So far,
the only known cause of this persistant tension of the
intercostal muscles is chronic stress-effect storage in
the hypothalamus.

Reply 4

hugatree

Nope, sorry. :smile:

I don't quite understand how stress causes this either...

Reply 5

Ceri327

hmmmm no cant say i have sorry

try breathing less heavily?

Reply 6

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hugatree

Nope, sorry. :smile:

I don't quite understand how stress causes this either...

same here, this website seems to confuse me even more :p:

http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/costochon.html

Reply 7

hugatree

You have GREAT avatar. :biggrin:

Reply 8

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hugatree

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Reply 9

hugatree

darth_vader05

i know

you want some cookies? :p:

Yes please. :biggrin:

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Reply 10

anjimcflanji

how do you know you've got this? if you've been to the dr surely they would tell your how to recover...??

Reply 11

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anjimcflanji

how do you know you've got this? if you've been to the dr surely they would tell your how to recover...??

the thing is i'm not sure, but i've been experincing the symptoms. just wanted to know if anyone's had it and what they did :smile:

Reply 12

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hugatree

Yes please. :biggrin:

I stole it and put it as my MSN avatar lmao. :cool:

here you go :biggrin:

its my msn avatar aswell :biggrin:

( i charge by the minute btw!) :cool:

Reply 13

wednesburywench

inflamation near the ribs..

Reply 14

anjimcflanji

It's just I have had a similar thing and went to the dr and he said i'd just bruised my ribs at the top quite badly.....Maybe you should go to the dr if only for pain relief and to make sure you're ok!!
Hope you are !!

Reply 15

Sophdoph

I have it. I got it from stress after a bereavement nearly a year ago and still suffer. I use a lot of Neurofen gel to get the inflammation down, and try and do gentle stretches to strengthen the muscles around my ribs.

Also I make sure when I have a shower/bath I relax my muscles which provides good relief before I go to bed.

I try not to lift too heavy things and really make sure I don't twist awkwardly because that makes it a million times worse.

Reply 16

tomorrows_apple

Does it feel like muchos pressure on your ribs down near the bottom of the sternum where they meet?

I have a chronically confused hypothalamus, so oodles of weird symptoms as a result which i shant go into, but I've noticed this pressure feeling recently and since you mentioned the hypo' I figure it might be related.

If it is similar, it feels a bit like a muscle cramp and happens mostly in the evenings [right now as it happens] when I'm lying down or half way between sitting and lying. If any of those muscles are slightly tensed I make a point of relaxing them completely and it seems to go away after an hour or two at most.