• Ubettawerk
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    1 year ago

    I used to have costochondritis which was an inflammation of the cartilage in my sternum. It would feel like a pressure on my chest that wouldn’t be relieved until I bent backwards to stretch and “pop” my chest. So occasionally friends and family would see me stretching and wonder wtf I was doing

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      1 year ago

      I had that for a few years. Scary at first, then mostly just annoying to explain: yes I’m having chest pain, yes I’m sure it’s not a heart attack, yes my chest is going to make a noise.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve had this too. Sometimes when I would stretch to crack my sternum, I would get this wave of heat and eventual pain in my chest. So it was a gamble every time I felt that I had to crack it. It’s been a lot better in recent years but it never really went away completely.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, same thing would happen to me! It was a risk trying to stretch it out because if it works the pain would go away but if it didn’t pop, then the pain would be worse than when I started. Sorry you’re still going through it. My doctor recommended NSAIDs for the pain but they didn’t help me too much. Eventually the problem went away and I luckily haven’t had it come back