Sissyl wrote:
When someone has been in pain long enough, the way to that pain is easy to fall into.
Not arguing that. But frequently inflamed sacroiliac joints as a consequence of spondylolisthesis and perpetually inflamed costal cartilage due to pectus carinatum are another way that pain is easy to fall into.
Oh, and sleeping. If it could even be called that most nights. Waking up with shooting chest pain like I've just been stabbed every time I roll over? Sometimes lying on my back and just waiting for the pain to subside enough so I can get out of bed and hobble to the medicine cabinet? Who needs alarm clocks, aha.
The thing about chronic costochondritis (aka inflamed costal cartilage) is that, while not degenerative per se, it does tend to get worse over time. It is difficult - impossible really - to objectively measure pain or the increase thereof, but I've read anecdotal reports and experienced it myself enough to be able to comfortably confirm this. Are the pain pathways in my brain hyperactive/over-sensitized? Sure. But they got that way for a physiological reason.
