the steroid shot has worked

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While I wouldn’t say it’s a cure it has helped decrease local swelling to the point I can genuinely test what is going on.

http://www.fprmed.com/Pages/Trauma/Costochondral_Seperation.html

Go down two more ribs and that’s where mine is. I finally was able to do a very gentle test of the hook manoevre and I did at least find the natural edge of the cartilage curve 🙂 And it moves with breathing.

I can even sit upright for a while now :0 Breathing is weird as the muscles that attach to that rib feel stretched and so also feel like they are cramping. So I don’t want to move it all too much.

 

Also that amount of inflammation set of a mini relapse of my RA, and also ummm… inflammation in the abdomen. But I think that has settled as well.

 

Still a long road to recovery. And there is a lot of mixed information out there about treatment.

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[sewtimely]

It isn't the same condition, but I pulled my diaphragm and wound up with pleurisy just before New Year. As long as I didn't move I was fine, but dear God did it hurt when I moved. My Victorian corset was a lifesaver, because it stopped me for breathing with my diaphragm. I could even sneeze while wearing it, which I couldn't do without the corset.