Odd pain

Hi! and Hugs,

Welcome to our group, and I hope you find as much comfort here as I have. Your pain sounds similar to my pleurisy type chest pain, and my chronic neuropathic pain from my CNS lupus. But any pain that bad should mean a call to your doctor. I have a prn pain patch prescription, Flector, which is a NSAID, that helps me alot. When I have a joint that hurts that much, I just slap on the patch, one every 12 hours, and the inflammation is better overnight. And I have been on Neurontin since I was diagnosed in 2005, which helps that scalded feeling immensely, thank God. You deserve to have your pain managed, so don't hesitate to ask,

More hugs,

sue

I agree about calling your doc since chest pain is nothing to mess around with.  The other thing I thought of when I read about your pain was costochondritis.  It's very painful and hurts really bad when you press on it.  Here's a description I found of costochondritis from an online article from Mayo clinic:

"Costochondritis is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breastbone (sternum). It causes sharp pain in the costosternal joint — where your ribs and breastbone are joined by rubbery cartilage. Pain caused by costochondritis may mimic that of a heart attack or other heart conditions.

 

Your doctor might refer to costochondritis by other names, including chest wall pain, costosternal syndrome and costosternal chondrodynia. When the pain of costochondritis is accompanied by swelling, it's referred to as Tietze syndrome.

 

Most cases of costochondritis have no apparent cause. In these cases, treatment focuses on easing your pain while you wait for costochondritis to resolve on its own."