Collar bone pain - does anyone else get this?

Does anyone know what it is from? I have costochrondritis and RA in shoulders, so wondering it's linked?

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Hello

You may have referred pain, if you need to confirm have words with you GP

BOB

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Thank you, Bob, I've noticed how helpful you are around these parts!

I didn't think about referred pain. I have some mild joint erosions in both shoulders.

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Good luck with all

BOB

[LucyLocket42]

Hi I also have horrendous collar bone pain and also wondered how it fits with RA. Shoulder problems have always been a big issue for me and I was recently diagnosed with bursitis of the left shoulder. I hadn't thought about referred pain either. Makes sense. Thanks Bob!

[Sailaway]

I don't know what link there is, or if it's referred pain, but when my shoulders were first bad (before diagnosis) the GP was convinced it was a broken collar bone because of the acute pain there (it wasn't broken, by the way). Now whenever my shoulders are sore, so is my collar bone.

[calflo]

Hi fruitycake23

Before I was diagnosed with RA in Dec 2009, I too had several bouts of collar bone pain along with pain in many other parts!!! (Only lasting for a few days at a time.) Once on meds, this and my RA settled down. (Lucky for me) However I had my last flare in May 2012 and it was in my collarbones as well as my wrists. It was so severe that I took to my bed for a couple of days and slept it away. I wasn't aware of referred pain as it really felt as though it was in my collarbones and they were swollen too. I also had jaw problems last January, similar to nagging and painful toothache. I truly believe these are all linked. I have no other medical problems that I am aware of.

[hawker955]

Yes but at the sites where I'd fractured my collar bone earlier. In fact when my RA was early, it was very noticreable thta all the sites of previous injuries flared up: collar bone, rotator cuffs, patellar tendon surgery site, ribs broken fifteen years previously, , toe that had been broken ten years previously. My theory is that inflammatory triggers were being released into my general circulation by the RA and triggering inflammatory cells to be stirred up at these healed but scarred sites.