Hey guys, has anyone on the board had it? if so, what contributed to it, how did you get rid of it, if you have, and what do/did you do to get rid of it.
Here's my story, few years ago i was starting to get into working out. I worked out for about 8 months, I've seen some great results, and then i started training for a running competition. I stopped weight training all together and started doing a lot of running, after 6 months of work up, i finally completed the competition. After that I just couldn't get myself to go back to the gym, for either weight training or running. A year later i tried to get back into it, but got into it too fast and too heavy - so i crashed and couldn't carry on. At about same time (2 years ago) I started having chest pains. I went to ER - they did basically everything, from heart tests to blood tests, and everything came back as a norm, but chest pains didn't go away. I was referred to physio and they had no idea what to do - I went in for MRI and it came back as i had a little inflammation between 2-4th rib but nothing major - and everything else was like always NORM. One day my physio therapist even tried to tell me that there was nothing wrong with me at all and I was basically just making everything up in my mind - right then and there i said: put your hand on my chest - then i bent backwards to the right and there was 3 or 4 loud bangs in my chest. My physio therapist sat down and said that she had no idea how to treat it.
Here are some symptoms: I can crack it at any time, It hurts like a SOB when i apply any pressure to a sternum on right side. It also feels like there is pressure in the chest. It hurts and cracks the most when I tilt my head forward, or after a day of traps. So I am not rulling out some muscle problem.
As for lifestyle - at first i thought that was it for me as i am only 22 (20 at the time it started happening). But eventually (after more than a year of depression over it) I learned to live with it. It still cracks and hurts but it doesn't bother me as much as it used to, mentally that is. I am back to the Gym, weight lifting. I've been back to the gym for over a month now so I am back into routine.
Thats my story, feel free to comment.
Later Dudes & Dudets
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