Uncommon costo symptoms

Bones, joints and muscles
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Costochondritis is unfortunately, not widely known or discussed and I've got more information from here than my gp.

Although I'm lucky to say I'm 80-90% healed, I've reached a plateau.

I wanted to share some of the less common symptoms I've experienced in my healing process for those who may be scared/confused:

Dizziness

Head pressure on the side of inflammation

(possibly led to a slowing down of the movement in left eye, I now wear glasses to refocus, never had eye issues before)

Headaches

Swollen neck

Tightness in neck

Swollen shoulder muscles

Back pain in the middle of back

Inability to eat

Feeling physically full after half a meal but still hungry

Stomach pain

Burning sensation in muscles

Tingling sensation in muscles

Strange sinking feeling when breathing, comparable to the stomach drop you get in fear/on a rollercoaster or similar but it's more muscular/physical

Sensation of muscles suddenly "deflating" when falling asleep - possibly anxiety related as well

Constant palpitations

Fatigue

Tiredness

Generally weak

Arm pain on side of inflammation

Feeling like I can't breathe

Difficulty walking at speed - who knew swaying arms could be so painful?!

Feeling fine all day but swelling up when you lie down to sleep

Sinus pressure

BONUS: For those who have overcome the majority of the pain

general discomfort/awareness/heaviness/tightness of the affected areas

Feel free to share your uncommon/less discussed symptoms

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Every symptom you have mentioned, I've had!!! Omg!!! What did you do to treat it?

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Gallons of turmeric tea!

Glad to know I'm not alone in my symptoms but was to hear someone else has suffered like me.

Also add breast/nipple soreness to the list!!

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Yes I'm still having the breast/ nipple soreness and really bad sinus issues when I never had that problem before. And still like you I had to start wearing eye glasses. Which is weird. How do you make the turmeric tea or should I goggle it

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Have had most of these symtoms as well for almost 18 months. Ended up with inappropriate sinus taccacardia out of the blue. Seeing a great cardiologist though. Thank God neither are life threatening. Congratulations  that you are pretty much cured. Thats awesome. How did you get there???? I would love to know. Thanks so much  

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Hello . I have had many

Of these symptoms . Am trying

To get better . So what method (s) have you used to to get better ?

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Literally just dump a couple of teaspoons of turmeric powder into hot water.

Reduced my pain significantly in 2-3 weeks.

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Also comforting to know you also wear glasses too.

My optician said that worse case scenario, my dizziness etc may be down to a brain tumour which absolutely freaked me out as you may imagine.

I thought it might be anxiety related but my anxiety is very low and has been for months.

I made the connection just today that it might have more to do with the head pressure I get with costo

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Stretches and turmeric powder in hot water as a tea.

I also took some vitamins (D, MSM, Omega 3) to help strengthen bones etc but I feel majority if the healing was down to turmeric.

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Stretches and turmeric powder in hot water as a tea.

I also took some vitamins (D, MSM, Omega 3) to help strengthen bones etc but I feel majority if the healing was down to turmeric.

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What kind of stretching do you do. Are there any websites or YouTube videos that can show me

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Hello, do you think that tumeric will still benefit even though, the rest for inflammation markers are negative ? I took the test for inflammation at rheumatologist .

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I googled costochondritis stretches. I can't post it here because it gets deleted but it's the healdove website.

So maybe search "healdove costochondritis stretches"

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I don't know the I haven't been back to the doctor or any health specialist since my diagnosis so I've had no extra help or info in the year I've been dealing with this.

You can try, turmeric has plenty of health benefits either way. If in 3 or so weeks you see no difference, then it may not be effective.

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How do you know that you are 80%/90% healed?

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Did a doctor finally diagnose. You ? Prob not they seem not to know about this .

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So glad to see that alot of symptoms I've had are in this list , 80% at least . The tight neck and shoulder muscles are terrible . How are you curing this condition as really need help

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I'm going based on my feelings. I no longer feel pain just tightness which is eased with a quick stretch. It's also no longer as widespread as it used to be.

Carrying heavy things isn't as difficult either and I don't need to rest as much.

It's a guess as I haven't been back to the doctors but I'm considering it to see if there's anything I can do to finally get rid.

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Yeah she did but her only advice was to take ibuprofen but I'm not a massive fan of pharmaceuticals. So I looked up my own methods.

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But you're right, her info was minimal. She said I'd be healed within a few weeks. 12 months later....