Costochondritis kicks you when you are down

On Monday morning, on the way to work, I sneezed.

Bang. The months of pain that I thought I had put behind me (at least for a little while) came flooding back.

I made it into work, spent the rest of the day sat on the same chair, unwilling to move and eventually crawled home.

I spent all of Tuesday flat on my back hoping it would go away, with hot water bottles and anti inflammatories and my good old friend coco-damol.

I'm hoping it's just a blip and it will go away as quickly as it came back but right now, I feel like I am back to square 0. and it hurts.

Any ideas on how to stop a costochondritis flare up in its tracks?

so here's what I did next........

I decided, after being dumped by the Physio. To do things my own way. So.. I signed up at the local gym. I decided to take one gentle exercise class a week and work with the gym staff to work out a programme that me (and my ribs) could cope with. So I started slow and increased week by week. One thing I have learned in 15 years of costochondritis is not to take things too quickly.

And then.... miraculously things started to get better. I have to admit that at the same time, I tried to be more conscious of my diet (less wheat, sugar and dairy) and be more conscious of my posture. I heated the area every day with a hot water bottle and tried to get enough rest.

And all of that seemed to work and the pain I felt seemed to be at a manageable level. I stopped taking the cocodamol, and was back down to plain old paracetamol. Things were going well until......