Costachondritis

[Jools67]

Hi, my daughter has costa, she is coming down from a 5 day attack of excruciating pain, unable to sit/lie down, screaming into a towel to muffle the sound.

It's heartbreaking watching and listening to her. She was prescribed ora morphe and diazepam but neither touched the pain.

She is going to see a bones consultant and a chiropractor, these attacks are daily and her life is literally on hold, she's to scared to go out, to scared to eat, contemplating shaving her head as washing or brushing it brings on an attack.

Can anyone offer any help, as desperate as I am, she's even more so.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

She has my sympathy - except mine is around the sacroiliac joint and if I lie down and don't move at all it doesn't hurt. But living alone makes that a bit difficult. My rheumy started some treatment yesterday - but I have to get to the hospital every day for the infusions and that isn't funny ,,,

[piglette]

I agree it is excruciating, impossible to do anything when you have it. It only hurt me when I breathed!! It did go away though.