Tuesday afternoon I was having some serious pain in my chest and back, it all seemed muscular and possibly anxiety related so I took my normal meds and anxiety meds and felt better-ish. But through the rest of the week I kept having really bad muscle pain (it hurt to wear a shelf bra tank top and or a bra). I used heating pads to help ease the pain, which worked for awhile.
Well today the pain came back strong, and after having a horrible night sleep the pain came back as bad as it had been on Tuesday. So off to the ER we went. I looked up the two closest hospitals, we are about a half hour from them both, so I chose the one that looked nicer. I am a hospital snob. 
And off we went. The pain started to subside but was still there. Well we go there and were wisked right back to a room where the most people at once that I have ever seen went to work, in under 5 minutes I had an EKG, they got a quick medical history from their nifty computers and they got an IV line in on the first try. Needless to say I was impressed. about 20 minutes later the doctor came in and told me about Costochndritis and about the 3 different levels of it, the first time, one time only rare version, the chronic version which about 10% of people.
Basically, the muscle under the breast tissue gets an infection and gets inflamed and any movement or expansion of the chest makes it hurt like h*ll. Its essentially self healing and will take about 1 – 2 weeks and it can come back at any time. The pain, when its bad can go all the way around to the back and have pain there. This explains the crazy pain I have only on the left side and that is only muscular.
They gave me a anti-inflammatory and a steroid and a pain med through the IV at the hospital and he prescribed 2 drugs, that I am hoping to have enough money for this week (providing they aren’t too expensive) this is the HUGE downside to being in the insurance loop-hole. I can’t get state insurance and I can’t get on the high risk state insurance until we have lived in TN for 6 months. So, we can all start praying that the ER bill isn’t huge as we were only there for about 3 hours and their payment plan is reasonable.
