pa235
06-22-2008, 12:36 PM
Hi everyone,
I am finally back, been here reading a few times but too busy with Drs. tests etc to do much more.
I was housecleaning and I think i threw myself in one heck of a costo flair. My entire upper chest is so sore, comes and goes through out the day with sharp pains that are short lived. Even taking a shower this AM made the sore spots act up. When I move my arms too far I could scream. Anyone else get this bad. The pain seems to be worse from the shoulder toward the underarms. This is the first costo flair I have had in awhile and have not missed it at all.
I had my pap, the Dr. found a breast lump had a ultra sound and that was fine, the lump the Dr. could not find after the us, I think it was a fm lump. Than I had my three year colon done and had a egd at the same time, three polyp's removed, a tiny spot of inflamation in my stomach. Next a bone density, echo, carotid study. nothing major there. Also been to the dentist and had a hearing test done, so every opening in my body has been checked. i can hear you laughing Blue.
Cliff had a false positive stress test and was cathed for no reason. He was just in the hopital for a week due to salmonela The infection went into his kidneys, he is doing well. Yes he did eat tomatoes.
Now that I have written a book I will quit, plus the typing is aggrevating my chest.
Hope you are all doing well.
Hugs, Linda
I am finally back, been here reading a few times but too busy with Drs. tests etc to do much more.
I was housecleaning and I think i threw myself in one heck of a costo flair. My entire upper chest is so sore, comes and goes through out the day with sharp pains that are short lived. Even taking a shower this AM made the sore spots act up. When I move my arms too far I could scream. Anyone else get this bad. The pain seems to be worse from the shoulder toward the underarms. This is the first costo flair I have had in awhile and have not missed it at all.
I had my pap, the Dr. found a breast lump had a ultra sound and that was fine, the lump the Dr. could not find after the us, I think it was a fm lump. Than I had my three year colon done and had a egd at the same time, three polyp's removed, a tiny spot of inflamation in my stomach. Next a bone density, echo, carotid study. nothing major there. Also been to the dentist and had a hearing test done, so every opening in my body has been checked. i can hear you laughing Blue.
Cliff had a false positive stress test and was cathed for no reason. He was just in the hopital for a week due to salmonela The infection went into his kidneys, he is doing well. Yes he did eat tomatoes.
Now that I have written a book I will quit, plus the typing is aggrevating my chest.
Hope you are all doing well.
Hugs, Linda
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stars13
06-22-2008, 01:17 PM
linda, i am sorry you're dealing with costo ontop of all else. glad that your tests came back fine but you've sure been through the wringer.
if you don't mind i was curious about you dh's salmonnela . been dealing with major gastro problems myself, mentioned salmonela to doc. had stool cultures done friday, haven't heard yet.
i'm in southwest pa, not sure where yu are. but what were your hubbys symptoms and how long did he have them. i really think mine is a type of colitis, but you never know. i too ate tomatoes.
thanks, stars
ps, hope the costo gets better soon.:)
if you don't mind i was curious about you dh's salmonnela . been dealing with major gastro problems myself, mentioned salmonela to doc. had stool cultures done friday, haven't heard yet.
i'm in southwest pa, not sure where yu are. but what were your hubbys symptoms and how long did he have them. i really think mine is a type of colitis, but you never know. i too ate tomatoes.
thanks, stars
ps, hope the costo gets better soon.:)
pa235
06-22-2008, 01:38 PM
Hi Star,
He started with abdonimal cramping, than some diarrehia and small amounts of vomiting. It started on a Tues, the day he ate tomatoes. By Fri. he was complaining he was cold and about 1 am on Sat. he woke me and was shaking from head to toe, took him to the Er, his temp was 104, they admitted him into ICU, ICU was precautionary dues to having had heart attacks.
His infectious disease Dr. checked him for every disease there is from HIV to Lymes. Finally the ecoli test came back positive for salmonela. He said he never had a stool sample but I imagaine they can find it in your blood also, his infection was in the blood stream.
We live in N.E. Pa. I hope this is not what you have, but have read that usually in a week you can get over this dd without any intervention, but you should take nothing for the d. that is cleaning your body out.
Hugs, Linda
He started with abdonimal cramping, than some diarrehia and small amounts of vomiting. It started on a Tues, the day he ate tomatoes. By Fri. he was complaining he was cold and about 1 am on Sat. he woke me and was shaking from head to toe, took him to the Er, his temp was 104, they admitted him into ICU, ICU was precautionary dues to having had heart attacks.
His infectious disease Dr. checked him for every disease there is from HIV to Lymes. Finally the ecoli test came back positive for salmonela. He said he never had a stool sample but I imagaine they can find it in your blood also, his infection was in the blood stream.
We live in N.E. Pa. I hope this is not what you have, but have read that usually in a week you can get over this dd without any intervention, but you should take nothing for the d. that is cleaning your body out.
Hugs, Linda
stars13
06-22-2008, 02:01 PM
Thanks Linda, well, i haven't had a fever, just very bad diarheaa , vomited a little. i've had it for amonth or so , so probably not salmonella.
I'm glad your dh is doing better. Sounds like he was really sick. ithink i have colitis from taking cipro a while back, and i also have ibs, maybe it's just a bad flare. it sure is miserable though.. if it is a flare, i've never had one this bad before. well, we shall see i guess.
i've got a weekend trip coming up to take grandsons to erie in a couple weeks. i'm praying for good health, as we all are. i sure don't want to be a partypooper on the trip.
wishing you a painfree day and don't work too hard.;)
stars
I'm glad your dh is doing better. Sounds like he was really sick. ithink i have colitis from taking cipro a while back, and i also have ibs, maybe it's just a bad flare. it sure is miserable though.. if it is a flare, i've never had one this bad before. well, we shall see i guess.
i've got a weekend trip coming up to take grandsons to erie in a couple weeks. i'm praying for good health, as we all are. i sure don't want to be a partypooper on the trip.
wishing you a painfree day and don't work too hard.;)
stars
builder
06-22-2008, 07:13 PM
I use to get severe Costocondritis also. My Doctor gave me Relefan and it worked great to get rid of it. I take it at the slightest onset.
Hi everyone,
I am finally back, been here reading a few times but too busy with Drs. tests etc to do much more.
I was housecleaning and I think i threw myself in one heck of a costo flair. My entire upper chest is so sore, comes and goes through out the day with sharp pains that are short lived. Even taking a shower this AM made the sore spots act up. When I move my arms too far I could scream. Anyone else get this bad. The pain seems to be worse from the shoulder toward the underarms. This is the first costo flair I have had in awhile and have not missed it at all.
I had my pap, the Dr. found a breast lump had a ultra sound and that was fine, the lump the Dr. could not find after the us, I think it was a fm lump. Than I had my three year colon done and had a egd at the same time, three polyp's removed, a tiny spot of inflamation in my stomach. Next a bone density, echo, carotid study. nothing major there. Also been to the dentist and had a hearing test done, so every opening in my body has been checked. i can hear you laughing Blue.
Cliff had a false positive stress test and was cathed for no reason. He was just in the hopital for a week due to salmonela The infection went into his kidneys, he is doing well. Yes he did eat tomatoes.
Now that I have written a book I will quit, plus the typing is aggrevating my chest.
Hope you are all doing well.
Hugs, Linda
Hi everyone,
I am finally back, been here reading a few times but too busy with Drs. tests etc to do much more.
I was housecleaning and I think i threw myself in one heck of a costo flair. My entire upper chest is so sore, comes and goes through out the day with sharp pains that are short lived. Even taking a shower this AM made the sore spots act up. When I move my arms too far I could scream. Anyone else get this bad. The pain seems to be worse from the shoulder toward the underarms. This is the first costo flair I have had in awhile and have not missed it at all.
I had my pap, the Dr. found a breast lump had a ultra sound and that was fine, the lump the Dr. could not find after the us, I think it was a fm lump. Than I had my three year colon done and had a egd at the same time, three polyp's removed, a tiny spot of inflamation in my stomach. Next a bone density, echo, carotid study. nothing major there. Also been to the dentist and had a hearing test done, so every opening in my body has been checked. i can hear you laughing Blue.
Cliff had a false positive stress test and was cathed for no reason. He was just in the hopital for a week due to salmonela The infection went into his kidneys, he is doing well. Yes he did eat tomatoes.
Now that I have written a book I will quit, plus the typing is aggrevating my chest.
Hope you are all doing well.
Hugs, Linda
Glojer
06-23-2008, 01:26 AM
Hi ya linda! Glad to see you back. Isn't it funny how docs specialize in all the openings in the body, Gastro, Gyno, ENT, ....giggle! Glad all the probing and prodding came out ok. Hang in there! Just stopped in quick to say hello, I am up way past my bedtime. I can't take this night life.
Stars13, I hope you get to feeling better. Was that pun intended...partypooper!!! I had a similar reaction to some prilosec I was taking, sent my IBS into lovely flaring.
Glojer
Stars13, I hope you get to feeling better. Was that pun intended...partypooper!!! I had a similar reaction to some prilosec I was taking, sent my IBS into lovely flaring.
Glojer
gorgee
06-23-2008, 08:56 AM
HI Linda, it is nice to meet you, I do not think we have talked yet. I have the same things as you, fibro, myofacsial, and costo, along with temporal tendonitis. I had a costo flair for about a month, and then yesterday another one flared up. IF I might ask how do you handle the three, fibro, myofascial, and costo? Sometimes it is hard to distinguish where the pains are coming from.
I took my pain medication, long acting med, at 2 am this morning, so I would be able to get up and walk this morning. It was hard on the stairs like it always is, but I am not waiting for the pain to go away so I can move.
I always wonder how we all do it. I am glad you are back, and I look forward to talking to you soon.
Kass
I took my pain medication, long acting med, at 2 am this morning, so I would be able to get up and walk this morning. It was hard on the stairs like it always is, but I am not waiting for the pain to go away so I can move.
I always wonder how we all do it. I am glad you are back, and I look forward to talking to you soon.
Kass
pa235
06-23-2008, 10:10 AM
Hi Kass,
Good to meet you also but sorry so we have pain in common.
You are so right with where the pain is coming from. I dont know if it is cervical, the chest wall or what either. My Dr. and my Chiro both think it is the cervical that are setting up the trigger points, but who knows. The pain meds. either do nothing for me or else I am zombie.
Does your chest wall pain move around throughout the day when you are in a flair, mine seems too also lets up for awhile and come back.
I alwas say my good days are other peoples bad days.
Hugs, Linda
Good to meet you also but sorry so we have pain in common.
You are so right with where the pain is coming from. I dont know if it is cervical, the chest wall or what either. My Dr. and my Chiro both think it is the cervical that are setting up the trigger points, but who knows. The pain meds. either do nothing for me or else I am zombie.
Does your chest wall pain move around throughout the day when you are in a flair, mine seems too also lets up for awhile and come back.
I alwas say my good days are other peoples bad days.
Hugs, Linda
stars13
06-23-2008, 10:22 AM
Hi glojer, actually it was an unintentional pun, but i got a good giggle out of it today. :jester:
thanks for your good wishes, and i was wondering how did you straighten yourself out with your bad flare of ibs. Have you ever taken both a fiber supplement and anti d meds at the same time?
stars
thanks for your good wishes, and i was wondering how did you straighten yourself out with your bad flare of ibs. Have you ever taken both a fiber supplement and anti d meds at the same time?
stars
bluelakelady
06-23-2008, 10:32 AM
dear linda,
ha ha ha ha giggle giggle giggle. yea, you busted me. i was laughing. thinking to myself, yea, been there, had that. it is good you had it all done. peace of mind and laughter for me. tee hee.
i never eat tomatoes unless they come from my garden or the garden of someone i know. the store ones have no taste. poor hubby. as for his stress test. better a false positive than a real one. yes?
good to have you back again. come when you are up to it. we know you are there even when you are quiet.
peace and healing hugs for your costo,
blue
ha ha ha ha giggle giggle giggle. yea, you busted me. i was laughing. thinking to myself, yea, been there, had that. it is good you had it all done. peace of mind and laughter for me. tee hee.
i never eat tomatoes unless they come from my garden or the garden of someone i know. the store ones have no taste. poor hubby. as for his stress test. better a false positive than a real one. yes?
good to have you back again. come when you are up to it. we know you are there even when you are quiet.
peace and healing hugs for your costo,
blue
Grapedy
06-23-2008, 06:21 PM
Cliff had a false positive stress test and was cathed for no reason.
No such thing as cathing for no reason. Better to play it safe and find nothing than not do anything and die from something that could have been fixed. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
All this stuff about salmonella and tomatoes makes me very glad I don't like them. I don't have to say hold the tomatoes when I eat out!
No such thing as cathing for no reason. Better to play it safe and find nothing than not do anything and die from something that could have been fixed. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
All this stuff about salmonella and tomatoes makes me very glad I don't like them. I don't have to say hold the tomatoes when I eat out!
Glojer
06-23-2008, 11:37 PM
Hi stars, if I am understanding you correctly you are saying anti d as in antidepressant. I don't take antidepressant meds. I do take meds for heartburn, gerd are whatever you want to call it. I was having severe chest pain and pressure etc. and my stress test came out fine so my pcp put me on prescription prilosec. You can now get it over the counter. I also take a psyllium husk (500mgs) fiber vitamin everyday for my IBS and the gastro prescribed hyoscyamine (levbid) for me when needed. Unfortunately I seem to need it more often than not. The prilosec reduces the acid in your stomach and I guess for me after about two months reducing the acid created a problem with diarrhea. I stopped the prilosec and waited a couple of weeks and of course the heart burn came back but when I started the prilosec up again so did the diarrhea. I have gone back to taking my OTC ranitadine for heartburn and I don't have problems with it.
My gastro says IBS flares are usually caused by stress. Now I do realize that foods etc. can cause them too. I usually have severe constipation with the stress factor and the diarrhea part with the meds factor or food factor. By the way what I have been told is if you get sick from bad food it usually starts within a couple hours after eating the bad food.
I hope I answered your question.
Glojer
PS. stars I just read the other thread on IBS and fibro and you meant anti d as in anti diarrheal medication. Duh...what are we talking about glojer wake up. I NEVER take anti diarrheal meds. I have so much trouble with the C part of IBS that taking anti d's would be worse than having the diarrhea. Something else I do is take 2 GasX pills everynight and also during the day if needed that seems to help.
My gastro says IBS flares are usually caused by stress. Now I do realize that foods etc. can cause them too. I usually have severe constipation with the stress factor and the diarrhea part with the meds factor or food factor. By the way what I have been told is if you get sick from bad food it usually starts within a couple hours after eating the bad food.
I hope I answered your question.
Glojer
PS. stars I just read the other thread on IBS and fibro and you meant anti d as in anti diarrheal medication. Duh...what are we talking about glojer wake up. I NEVER take anti diarrheal meds. I have so much trouble with the C part of IBS that taking anti d's would be worse than having the diarrhea. Something else I do is take 2 GasX pills everynight and also during the day if needed that seems to help.
stars13
06-24-2008, 12:13 AM
Sorry Glojer, i meant anti diarrhea meds . i don't take anti depressants either, but i also have been on nexium for probably 5 years. and i do have some levbid , although it's probably a yr or so old.
This is probably stupid, but i didn't know whether i should take the lomotil, imodium or levbid along with a fiber supplement. i mean, i've taken citricel for many yrs everyday as instructed by gastro to help ibs, but when i started having such bad diarrhea i quit taking it because it is a laxative and i thought if i was trying to stop pooping with meds, i shouldn't take laxative , right? I was told by gastro to use citricel every day, constipated or loose, and i have religiously done so untill last week.
Well, today i only needed one imodium. i don't like the way lomotil makes me feel. but belly feels a bit better, hope it continues. maybe i'll go back to the citricel soon. sorry this is so stupid and long.:confused:
Boy, the weather here has been so wierd. Hot and sunny most of day and then all of a sudden big bad storms and then it gets cold. really wierd. we've been watching my grandson play the same play off game for 3 days.
Started Saturday , got 2 innings in before storm hit, sunday got one more inning in, and tonight the game was called before it even started. So tomorrow night, hopefully the fourth inning and the rest of the game.
Let me tell you, it's not been all fun having the runs at these baseball fields. I hate outhouses . oh well, what we do for our grandchildren.
fibro's been pretty calm this week, so if i could only get rid of these stinkin poops i might be alright for a change.
past my bedtime,, thanks glojer, i hope you're sleeping well tonight.
stars
This is probably stupid, but i didn't know whether i should take the lomotil, imodium or levbid along with a fiber supplement. i mean, i've taken citricel for many yrs everyday as instructed by gastro to help ibs, but when i started having such bad diarrhea i quit taking it because it is a laxative and i thought if i was trying to stop pooping with meds, i shouldn't take laxative , right? I was told by gastro to use citricel every day, constipated or loose, and i have religiously done so untill last week.
Well, today i only needed one imodium. i don't like the way lomotil makes me feel. but belly feels a bit better, hope it continues. maybe i'll go back to the citricel soon. sorry this is so stupid and long.:confused:
Boy, the weather here has been so wierd. Hot and sunny most of day and then all of a sudden big bad storms and then it gets cold. really wierd. we've been watching my grandson play the same play off game for 3 days.
Started Saturday , got 2 innings in before storm hit, sunday got one more inning in, and tonight the game was called before it even started. So tomorrow night, hopefully the fourth inning and the rest of the game.
Let me tell you, it's not been all fun having the runs at these baseball fields. I hate outhouses . oh well, what we do for our grandchildren.
fibro's been pretty calm this week, so if i could only get rid of these stinkin poops i might be alright for a change.
past my bedtime,, thanks glojer, i hope you're sleeping well tonight.
stars
stars13
06-24-2008, 12:22 AM
Glojer, we're like two ships passing in the night tonight. I just read your ps.giggle . we'll get this synchronized sooner or later.
again, sleep well,
stars;)
again, sleep well,
stars;)
Glojer
06-24-2008, 10:36 PM
We sure are two ships passing. I have such a severe problem with constipation when I can get a bout of diarrhea I consider it a blessing sometimes. Not as bad as you have had though, I don't envy you at those ballgames. I remember visiting my relatives in the country on their farms when outhouses were all they had....and I'm talking your regular run of the mill wooden outhouse. What we won't do for our grandchildren!
You have been taking the nexium for five years and just now having all this trouble with the other end. I think we know our bodies and if it feels right to stop the citricel I say do it. Docs know what should happen in theory but our body does what it wants not what the theory says it should. Be sure to slow up on the imodium before it starts to create a problem where you can't go at all. Maybe you could slow up on imodium and start to add the citricel back slowly. If the diarrhea starts again then maybe it could be the citricel. I just think our body sometimes rebels against meds we have taken for a long time.
I did sleep well last night thanks.
Glojer
You have been taking the nexium for five years and just now having all this trouble with the other end. I think we know our bodies and if it feels right to stop the citricel I say do it. Docs know what should happen in theory but our body does what it wants not what the theory says it should. Be sure to slow up on the imodium before it starts to create a problem where you can't go at all. Maybe you could slow up on imodium and start to add the citricel back slowly. If the diarrhea starts again then maybe it could be the citricel. I just think our body sometimes rebels against meds we have taken for a long time.
I did sleep well last night thanks.
Glojer