Chest stiffness

J have similar condition but my osteoarthritis is very pronounced in back and especially neck. AS is only in my left sacral joint which is partially fused. Curious bout your blood lab for crpand sedrate. Physical therapy helped neck stiffness only little for back.

MRI show few basic thinks this is blood disorder that we have your reumatologist should have done CRP CRS full blood count blood tests , MRI take photos only , treat your blood instead of looking for the damage the disorder do , it is good on the forum to ask my advise to you ask your reumatologist who treating you for this disorder , and take something , for example i have done few crowns on my teeth , i notice now the nerve have been affected so i need to act in an emergency way to visit the dentist to restore the problem instead of asking here the so and so , ask your reumatologist for this , how you treat the AS ? How you know you have AS ? It is inflamation with HLAB27 , do you have this disorder ? MRI is magnetic field to see any tumor damage etc no to see the blood within , this disorder is very serious genetic disorder , i have this for long i no relay on any MRI to treat it i ask the profesionals , go and ask your doctor to treat you show him the MRI , but ask for blood tests LFT CRP CSR if those are high then ask the doctor , i use biological medication plus some others this disorder require multiple treatment , can attack the electrical part of tve heart the rib cage , in upper middle low back eyes anywhere out of the blue , your immune attacking you , what the MRI will do ? You need to control this , treat your body like temple , act fast , in reality they do not know this genetic disorder well , they keep study , many people have this in my case attack me 24 years old now i am 61 , i have suffer all those years until they found the biological medications , if you have HLAB27 with inflamation together ? To my opinion this disorder require many things change diet exercise the correct medication , if you have AS methotraxate and the rest will do no much , go and talk to your doctor reumatologist do few blood tests , and decide if you no put this under control it will be attack from within yourself without know , last month i found hard to breath my rib cage was terrible after the injection of the ENBREL the animal stop turn on me , that is how i call this disorder the animal within , run on families , xray mri etc is good for pictures , this disorder require your constant attention with your doctor , remember everyone is different so the blood type , i never ask anyone i call tge doctor and do blood tests to investigate how bad is in my case recently attack the prostate cause enlargment , on PSA , he can do anything this because is our blood and life is within the blood , many refuse treatment , reading or asking , my advise to you go and see reumatologist and do some blood tests to determine your situation what exact you have ? All the best just make some action longer you leave it , can atgacl anywhere i stop the medication for 3 months and i become very sick , i start again and the animal within stop turning on me , remicade is good medication in my case i use Enbrel i no want to suppress the immune to much also i do give a brake , under advise of the doctor , sad to have this disorder there is no cure from this disorder only control it , take good care 

It’s callled costochronditis. It’s an inflammation of the joints where your ribs meet your breastbone.  I get it all the time and it sucks.  It feels almost like heartburn and your chest feels heavy.  I complain about it to the doctors but theres not much to do.  You can take aspirin for the pain or put an ice pack on your chest for 20 minutes.  Physical therapy helps.  My physical therapist literally grabs understand rib cage to create movement.  Practice diaphragmatic breathing.  It helps to keep movement in this area.