Does anyone get constant rapid pulse/ heart beat with costochondritis

I still have pain in my chest and rubs and it's still tender to the touch. I wake up at night and my heart beats very fast. Not sure if that's because of my anxiety medicine or what causes it. I also have and clavicle pain. And everything gets worse with stress. I hope everyone is doing better.

Hi,

I was recently diagnosed with costo, about 3 months ago. It started more like 6 months ago, and as I hate going to the doctor it took a while for me to be in enough pain to actually go. At first it was just small painful twinges in the left side of my chest or breastbone. They would stop when I was up moving around and then sneak attack me as I fell asleep. Then the pain started radiating into my left shoulder, and down my left arm, and the pain in the center of my chest became sharper. I spent several nights wide awake, afraid if I went to sleep I simply wouldn’t wake up. My hubby finally talked me into just seeing a doc, so I went but she told me it was most likely acid reflux (after doing blood work and ekg) and she put me on two weeks worth of omeprazole and ranitidine. It actually seemed to help for several days, but then the pain crept back in and I was back at a different doc before my meds even ran out. This one said it was costo. I was put on naproxen for two weeks. Relief! Finally! But it only lasted about a week after the naproxen ran out and I don’t like taking meds much more than I like seeing docs, so I chose not to refill or get another prescription. The pain wasn’t too bad for a short time after that- I was able to sleep and I realized I’d been making it worse by sleeping on my stomach with my left arm up under my pillow beneath my head, so I stopped that and it made a big difference. Then suddenly the night before Thanksgiving, I went to bed and my heart started racing and the breastbone pain was back. I nearly went to the ER, but I’m great at talking myself out of things, so I convinced myself it was due to too much caffeine (it probably was). Things settled down for a couple weeks, mild pain here and there, but then one night my heart started pounding- without racing- and the radiating pain was back, from my breastbone across the left of my chest and down my arm. It’s just gotten worse since then, heart pounds for a while every day and the pain has now spread to some of the right side of my chest as well. I’m beginning to learn that thinking about it and worrying only makes it worse, but it’s so hard NOT to worry. My husband has been great, he gets me calm and talks me through it rationally until I know I’m ok, just hurting. But here I am, 32 years old, with two young kids who wake up at 6 every morning, and I can barely get out of bed because I’ve been up half the night in pain or with my heart pounding. The doctor had said that costo usually “resolves” within weeks...generally 8 at the most. Yet every real experience I’ve read about it, it goes on for months or years. I’m new to it, but I have so much sympathy for everyone who has been dealing with it for longer than I have. It’s such an exhausting head game as well as painful. 

Yes, I sure do and it’s worse on a full stomach. 

My daughter has Tietze's.  When she is in extreme pain, she feels her heart miss a beat and on one occasion ended up in A & E. She has also had ECGs. 

Her heart does miss a beat, but always has.  She was told that due to the pain that she is in, she is more likely to notice anything that is happening in her chest, and therefore is only now noticing the missing beat

Yes I do. I also was diagnosed with Fibro Myalgia and inappropriate sinus taccacardia. None of which are life threatening. But Has your daughter gone to a cardiologist? I have one now and Im on beta blockers to help the extra beats or high heart rate. They really help. Good luck. It will be ok 

 

Good evening. I am so thankful to have found this thread. After 5 ER trips and a 3 day stay at a local hospital my primary doc diagnosed me with Costal. Its been 2 weeks yesterday and I still feel the same. My heart feels like its racing at times even though at the hospitals it never went over 106 at the highest and they say it is not racing but i can feel it pounding alot of the times. I wake up in the middle of the night with what feels like a racimg heart. I can feel it in my chest and sometimes even in my arm. This is the scariest thing i have ever been through medically. My pain is in the middle of my chest like a burning sharp stabbing pain and sometimes in my left breast also. I have had every test ran possible to rule out any heart issues at the ER but I feel like i should follow up with a Cardiologist. I am at a loss for how to make this stop cause it has taken over my life with non stop worry. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Yes i do i can see it jumping on my wrist my propandol slows it down only bad thing about that tho I can't take naproxen when ave already took propandol.. I started doing strechs twisting left to right 10 times on each side works for me try it.