WONDERING IF IT COULD BE THE PAIN IN MY RIBS THAT IS RADIATING TO THE ABDOMEN, IT IS HORRIBLE, ALSO SOMEBODY WITH SHORTNESS OF BREATH?? I ALREAADY CHECKED...
Hi All, it's midgey.....well, my last "flare" took about 3 weeks to finally go away, I went to Florida for a weeks vacation, I felt great (coming from the...
... Hi Alex I have had the pain radiating all around my right ribcage and over my stomach and liver regions.... had both checked out and pain was blamed on...
Hi Midgey ...... so sorry to hear about the AS .... but now maybe you have some more answers ???? Chronic costo is one of the symptoms of AS ...... here is...
Hi I have spent some time working in tissue typing labs and HLA-B27 is a tissue antigen. Think of it like a blood group, but instead of it being A,B or O on a...
... Hi kb, thanks for the response as they are few and far between. Besides costo, I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, severe bilateral carpel tunnel...
hi guys, i went to see a physical medicine doctor last monday. he told me to continue with the celebrex for 3-4 months, which was given to me on feb 6th by a...
I started having this awful pain last nov with stabbing pain on the right side in my ribs. Now the constant pain has developed in my left side. I dont have...
Hi There, I was injured last summer. At first, my pain was in my thoracac area of my back. A couple weeks latter,the pain was bad over the top of my right...
Hi Everyone, I thought I would share my horrible experience last weekend. Damn Germs! It started with my husband getting the stomach flu a week and a half ago....
Very dreadful experience for you. Like you, I caught the flu from our kids, no matter how clean it is, its just in the air..very contagious. I ended up...
Hi, I know I'm not Jim, but I'm going through a similar diagnosis/treatment crisis. ... I've gone through the screening for MS, diabetes, thyroid, liver, etc...
Hi UG, ... That's fantastic! I'm glad it's working for you! Make sure you always take it _after_ you have eaten, and preferably have something substantial to...
I just read your message about the celebrex. I had been having a lot of chest and back pain and that is what the dr. put me on. He added it to the other...
My pain is generally more on the sternum about rib 2-4 but I notice that it does tend to hurt worse at night and when it is cold. Also, sometimes it hurts...
Hi Jim. Congratulations on becoming an ex-smoker. It's one of the hardest addictions to let go of. This is my third time and I'm hoping its the charm. Also...
oh my!! im so sorry about all the deaths in your family, especially about your daughter and husband and mom. the dr told me to take it for 4-6 months and see...
I've been suffering with costo for at least 2 years now. I've been seeing a Rhuematologist because of a positive ANA and she tested me for a Vitamin D...
... A couple of years ago, I discovered that I was vitamin D deficient. (I won't go into the how this was discovered, because it was a very complicated...
That is interesting and I'm sure it will be worth taking vitamin D supplements as you have been shown to be severely deficient. Good luck and let us know how...
... Read some of the articles here: http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/researchVDDS.shtml ... Read this: http://www.vitamindcouncil.com/vitaminDToxicity.shtml ...
Thanks for the links Kirk. I will peruse them in more detail later :-) Just to be clear, I'm not saying that you are wrong in that some populations can be...
Hi everyone, I feel so fruterated. After chronic costo and thoracic pain since last July I had a MRI. The results were NEGATIVE. It sounds stupid, but I was so...
... Apologies, reading back on this, I seem to be disagreeing and I'm not (blame the brain fog from my current costo flare). I'm not saying that it is wrong...
... If you were to take truly huge doses of vitamin D supplements - and I mean huge - there may be toxicity. But you'd have to really take a huge amount......
Hi, I'm obviously new to this group but unfortunately not new to costo. I've dealt with it on and of for the past 5-6 years. The only things that seem to help...
It is certainly an interesting topic Kirk. I do have to wonder if the fact that I am so often in a costo flare in the first few months of the year 'could' be...
... It is indeed. Like so many things that can't be made into expensive drugs, it has taken a long time for people to look more at vitamin D. It makes you...
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