Brain thats Brilliant!!! i actually had my wedding in the Millenium Stadium. Being a devoted Wales fan. Though i made the mistake of marrying an english man....
Does anybody else here have problems with swellings on their ribs? I leaned over to the side last night and I can feel a long narrow band on my side. ...
I was just diagnosed with costocondritis in early May. I was given a prescription for anti-inflammatory and told I would feel better in a few weeks. I do feel...
Hello. Sorry to hear you also have costo. As you know it isn't fun to deal with. Like you, many of us here have good days and bad days with costo pain. If you...
I also get the swelling and the bumps in the center of my ribcage that seem to come and go. I have no idea what they are, but when I touch them, they hurt. I...
Glad to find a place where people understand your pain.... I was diagnosed with costo back in march, I was told by my primary care to go to urgent care with...
Hi Unlucky, Thank you for your response again! My Pain wraps all the way around my ribcage. I have been going to see my General practitioner and am feeling...
Hi Sarah, I was on vacation this past week. sorry for not replying sooner. The vacation helped me tremendously mentally. But the taxi driver in boston didnt...
Hi All, I have been reading through loads of the messages on here and I was trying to figure out where abouts in the world everyone is from. It seems that...
Hi again!! Thanks for replying! I'm glad you had a good vacation. It's good to have a change of scenery even if the pain doesn't go away! As far as I'm aware I...
I am in the US and I was just diagnosed in early May. Oddly enough, I had been to a doctor (and then a specialist) because I had swelling under my left breast...
zqwombat, everything you said sounds like my case. I had a lump or whatever under my left breast that was really bothering me. After several tests, they have...
Hi all Im also in UK, wales . I think that the system in this country is slowly exhaust all possible avenues then send you home with anti depressants ! i had...
Hi guys, Im based in the UK also and have found these posts interesting reading. I have had Costo for about 4 years now and am always in some kind of pain even...
I know a lot of you have tried DO's. Im starting my DO treatments in june/july. I went to the DO this morning and he said that eventhough I had PT to loosen my...
I'm in the UK too and after several years of flare ups I was referred to a rheumatologist. That was another 15 month wait, I finally saw him, got told off for...
Hey people, I was wondering if anyone out there with a neurostimulator was still reading posts. I was wondering how you all were doing. -- Unlucky ... Need a...
I've been reading a lot of posts, looks like people have tried a lot of different things. Has anyone tried glucosamine chondroitin? I've started taking that ...
Ice does work alot better. My chiropractor uses it on me all the time. She gave me some stuff called Sombra (better smelling bengay) so i do ice for about 20...
I took glucosamine every day for years and it had no effect at all, I'm afraid. Feel a bit foolish now for spending so much money on it but some people say it...
I take glucosamine chondriotin with MSM every day and have done for a long
time. It doesn't seemed to have helped The costo but has done wonders for the...
Hi Unlucky, So far the neurolink treatments haven't helped me, I'm sorry to say but
because I'm so severe I will keep Going as he seems pleased with my...
HI wendy, where in australia do you live? i just read about all these wonderful brain surgeries that they do there and nowhere else. i thought the medical care...
Hi All This amazes me, as we all seem to have been sent to a Rumatologist. Everything that i have read about Costo would make me think that they would be the...
Hey Unlucky, I'm still reading the posts. I'm now one year post surgery from implanting the neurostimulator. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Don't get me...
I have been to see 2 Rhuematologists, the first one said just keep on doing
what you are doing and you'll be alright. The second one who I waited month to see...
Hi , When I started taking glucosmine I had heart palpations and when i stopped they stopped . I just read pom juice may help . The only other things I do is...
HI heather, im glad you are doing well, does the Neurostim, control your swelling at all? i dont think so right? Im not sure if you said that you had visible...