Hi, I'm the Nott'm lass and I have been in a lot of pain like it's been crazy and
I want to tell my story about what I have been diagnosed with yeah
let's go let's do this okay. So I recently started working at cafe at a
university in Nottingham, part-time 20 hours a week, not much at all, but it gets
me out the house and yeah it's a good job I'm really really enjoying it and I
really hate hospitality but now I'm enjoying this one. At the end of the
shift I sweep and mop the floor, and I started getting these really really
weird sharp pains in my chest/slash boob area. It's really hard to
explain the pain but it's like a pressure, sharp pain, deep inside like
this whole area and I was like what is this. I just ignored it. I thought nothing
of it. I just thought whatever I probably just strained it playing football. I've been
playing football once a week for six months, during the winter season, so yeah
that has probably not helped at all with that but anyway, I just ignored it. Never
ever ignore pain, you know your own body, you know when something's different
honestly if you think something is wrong go and get it checked out never ever
ignore something. It's always worth going to get it checked and if it is
nothing then at least you know yourself that you have you know checked out and
it's fine and if it's not you can get it sorted early on but anyway let's carry on
with this story. So a few nights ago I ended up Googling the
symptoms which is a really really bad idea
never ever Google your symptoms... it's just, it's stupid so obviously I was
there like, oh no, I'm not well, I'm... you know got the worst case scenario, oh no!
So I thought okay I need to go and get this checked out. This is three weeks
later! Three weeks this pain coming on at work but honestly the pain is that bad I
to come home and just sleep it off, like, I don't know what it is but then in bed
it's like horrible as well like you you feel like your chest is just cramping up
and you can't really breathe properly. It's really horrible.
And when I lie on my side as well, it's not nice... it's like, you just can't
breathe and im still like you just you can't breathe it's horrible, it's really really
nasty. So I got a day off work and I booked to see my doctor just to find out
what this pain is, this is not normal I've not had this pain before ever and yeah
anyway. So I went to the doctor yesterday and I told him what had happened and he
asked me if I go to the gym and I was like nope but I play football once a
week. So he did like two tests on me. He did the test where he stands next to my
hand and I've gotta like press onto his hand quite hard to see if the pain would
like come around here this area which it didn't happen, it did
the same on this arm, no pain doing those tests and then he examined my chest
felt around it, and the pain was coming from the sternum area from what he could
tell. He checked my boobs and there were no lumps which was great because I hate
checking... it's like no, I don't want to check... I'm just scared of finding
something. I'm just terrified and if I feel a bit of tissue I'm like oh what's
that? I'm just I'm just terrified of the whole thing to be honest with you. So he did
that and he was like well there's no lumps but you're getting pain around the
sternum area when I press in. Instantly, he was like I know exactly
what that is. That is Costochondritis! I googled it and Costochondritis is an
inflammation of the junction's where the upper ribs join with the cartilage that
holds into the breastbone or sternum. The condition causes localized chest pain
that you can reproduce by pushing on the cartilage in front of your rib cage.
Sounds painful. I think it's just a virus. He said that
it will take three weeks to go, worst-case scenario
three months, which is a long long time which is a long time and I did some
research and it can take up to a year to go so yeah that's not nice because it's
not a nice pain. But I spoke to my doctor about it and I was like do you think
I've got it from working at this uni and he said yeah because everyone comes
together at uni, there's so many viruses at uni and also, there's an outbreak of
mumps at my uni which is not good... that's not good at all we don't we don't
want to get that! And but yeah, there's a lot of viruses. I played football in the
cold, it's just a lot of things that have come together in this area, yeah. So yeah, that
is a that story. But yeah, if you ever ever are in doubt go and get it checked
out. Honestly, it's just not worth the stress... so yeah, go and get checked out
...yeah... I literally just thought it was because
my bra was too small, but no, it's a bit more serious than that. He said to rest up and
take ibuprofen and my body would do the rest. So hopefully it'll work and he said to
come back if then it doesn't go. I was like you are very very clever, thank you
so much for diagnosis and have a nice day
and that was that yeah, random, very very random, but I'm so relieved that it's
nothing too serious and it should go with in time. Yeah! If you're watching
this and you have Costochondritis, you're not alon. I feel the pain,
honestly, I do and I hope you get better. If you enjoyed this video comment, like,
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