Uncommon costo symptoms

how long has it taken you to become 80-90% better?

I also have same symptoms, before i feel its heart related issue but now im relax. I also have anxiety and panic issue stomach problems,nd cant do too musch physical activity, nd can u plz tell me how to make turmeric tea?

I was diagnosed with costo last year and it goes away and comes back every couple of months or so. It all started with me with pain in my breast which made me go have a mammogram and ultrasound. When both of those came back clear I didn't know what was going on. It just so happened I had some blood work done and my labs for lupus came back positive so I was sent to a rheumatologist who diagnosed me with costo. He pressed on my sternum and it was sore like a really deep bruise. I take ibuprofen when it really flares up and that helps tremendously. My symptoms are:

•tingling skin over my sternum and into my breast.

•soreness and tenderness from sternum all the way up to my collarbone.

•pain in my arm pit and all the way down to the arm.

•sometimes have itchiness around breast and sternum.

•after working in the yard or doing anything that exerts a lot of energy, it feels like something is sitting on my chest and I can't get a good, deep breath.

I have a 4 year old and an almost 2 year old who love to climb all

Hello!

I'm not sure if anyone is still on here but I'm desperately trying to find just one person who has had similar symptoms to me!

At the end of 2017 I noticed my lower left ribs were swollen/sticking out. They didn't really hurt so i thought that's odd, I'll monitor it.

Six months later, in the summer of 2018, i went to the doctor. He had a feel and said he thought it was my ribs protruding and sent me for tests to work out why.

I had an x-ray, an ultrasound of my spleen and pancreas, both of which came back fine, so I was sent for a nuclear bone scan which showed inflammation around the lower left ribs... a diagnosis of costochondritis was made.

What worries me is my rubs have now been sticking out/swelling for a year. Its gradually getting more uncomfortable. I wouldn't say painful, but it feels tight and uncomfortable. If I press on one of my lower ribs, around where the costo joint would be it can be sore. There is absolutely no pain around my sternum though, it's more in the middle of the ribs and round the outside.

It's the swelling that concerns me more. Its quite widespread. I'm not very good at numbering my ribs but I'd guess its my numbers 7-10 ribs and the swelling is all the way to the outside. I've never read of anyone having this swelling and lack of any real pain.

i don't know whether to ask for ANOTHER opinion! I've already spoken to two doctors. I was also referred for a ct scan for a different issue, of my lower chest, abdomen and pelvis and that didn't show anything of any concern so I feel I've had every test going! i just wish there were people saying they had this swelling! its not a lump, its just like my ribs are sticking out and its definitely worse at the end of the day.

Anyone?

My doctor said I had Costo/Tietzes in November. Im not really having the central chest pain at all anymore but i seem to have a constant niggly ache under my breast/all round my ribs towards my back - sometimes it feels like its even lower than my ribs or even in my kidney area. And then sometimes it feels like I've got a stitch right under my ribs, despite having not moved an inch. I've been to the GP for the 3rd time today as it's still ongoing and after trialling me on lansoprazole thinking its reflux related he's now thinking it's anxiety related. He's not done any blood work or anything to rule anything else out, probably because I haven't said I feel unwell, but as I was reluctant to go straight for the diazepam he's instead referred me to physio?! I have no idea anymore if this is costo related, or even if they think I ever had that in the first place. Does any of these symptoms ring any bells with anyone else on here?

its rapid heartbeat with mine it just comes on without any warning