I was diagnosed with costochondritis about 3 years ago. My primary doctor diagnosed it and that is the diagnosis that I went with. After describing my symptoms to her she started pressing around the areas of my chest where I said it hurt. When she would press the pain I was feeling would be recreated. That is what led her to believe that it was costochondritis. She sent me to get an x-ray just to make sure that it wasn't anything else.
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Hi,
I was diagnosed with costochondritis a long time ago. I would get it for nothing sometimes, other times lifting my babies up would put me into agony. You can feel your chest tender to the touch sometimes like it is on fire when it gets really bad.
I think it was x-rays also. It is muscles pulling away from the sternum they say.
Hope that helps!
