CF and chest pain

shortcody23 · Jun 9, 2009

I am fifteen years old and i was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. I luckily haven't really developed much of the chest portion of the disease until the begining of this year. I was hospitalized for it two months ago and my CF Clinic said that as I've grown older i have devloped the chest portion. I have seen a few different pulmonoligists and they say that it is pleural pain. They also found that because of an inknown cause. For quite some time i have had a few ribs popped out of place due to inflammation of my muscles in the walls of my lungs. It has also caused my spine to come out of allignment and i cant sleep, stand, or sit straight. I am starting physical therapy soo and i am hopeful that it will relieve some of my chest and back pain. Although my clinic doctors agree that it looks as if this will be around for the next 4-6 years. I am just wondering if anyone has suggestions. I'm sure a lot of you can relate. Right now im not on much pain pills but once i start physical therapy they are going to try pain patches. Because of all my current problems my school is not comfortable with me doing P.E. due to the fact of a very liimited physical exercises for me to do. But my doctors would like the school to keep me in and allow me to do the few things i can. If anyone has any pain relief advice, or any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cody

shortcody23 · Jun 9, 2009

I am fifteen years old and i was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. I luckily haven't really developed much of the chest portion of the disease until the begining of this year. I was hospitalized for it two months ago and my CF Clinic said that as I've grown older i have devloped the chest portion. I have seen a few different pulmonoligists and they say that it is pleural pain. They also found that because of an inknown cause. For quite some time i have had a few ribs popped out of place due to inflammation of my muscles in the walls of my lungs. It has also caused my spine to come out of allignment and i cant sleep, stand, or sit straight. I am starting physical therapy soo and i am hopeful that it will relieve some of my chest and back pain. Although my clinic doctors agree that it looks as if this will be around for the next 4-6 years. I am just wondering if anyone has suggestions. I'm sure a lot of you can relate. Right now im not on much pain pills but once i start physical therapy they are going to try pain patches. Because of all my current problems my school is not comfortable with me doing P.E. due to the fact of a very liimited physical exercises for me to do. But my doctors would like the school to keep me in and allow me to do the few things i can. If anyone has any pain relief advice, or any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cody

shortcody23 · Jun 9, 2009

I am fifteen years old and i was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. I luckily haven't really developed much of the chest portion of the disease until the begining of this year. I was hospitalized for it two months ago and my CF Clinic said that as I've grown older i have devloped the chest portion. I have seen a few different pulmonoligists and they say that it is pleural pain. They also found that because of an inknown cause. For quite some time i have had a few ribs popped out of place due to inflammation of my muscles in the walls of my lungs. It has also caused my spine to come out of allignment and i cant sleep, stand, or sit straight. I am starting physical therapy soo and i am hopeful that it will relieve some of my chest and back pain. Although my clinic doctors agree that it looks as if this will be around for the next 4-6 years. I am just wondering if anyone has suggestions. I'm sure a lot of you can relate. Right now im not on much pain pills but once i start physical therapy they are going to try pain patches. Because of all my current problems my school is not comfortable with me doing P.E. due to the fact of a very liimited physical exercises for me to do. But my doctors would like the school to keep me in and allow me to do the few things i can. If anyone has any pain relief advice, or any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cody

shortcody23 · Jun 9, 2009

I am fifteen years old and i was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. I luckily haven't really developed much of the chest portion of the disease until the begining of this year. I was hospitalized for it two months ago and my CF Clinic said that as I've grown older i have devloped the chest portion. I have seen a few different pulmonoligists and they say that it is pleural pain. They also found that because of an inknown cause. For quite some time i have had a few ribs popped out of place due to inflammation of my muscles in the walls of my lungs. It has also caused my spine to come out of allignment and i cant sleep, stand, or sit straight. I am starting physical therapy soo and i am hopeful that it will relieve some of my chest and back pain. Although my clinic doctors agree that it looks as if this will be around for the next 4-6 years. I am just wondering if anyone has suggestions. I'm sure a lot of you can relate. Right now im not on much pain pills but once i start physical therapy they are going to try pain patches. Because of all my current problems my school is not comfortable with me doing P.E. due to the fact of a very liimited physical exercises for me to do. But my doctors would like the school to keep me in and allow me to do the few things i can. If anyone has any pain relief advice, or any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cody

shortcody23 · Jun 9, 2009

I am fifteen years old and i was diagnosed 2 and a half years ago. I luckily haven't really developed much of the chest portion of the disease until the begining of this year. I was hospitalized for it two months ago and my CF Clinic said that as I've grown older i have devloped the chest portion. I have seen a few different pulmonoligists and they say that it is pleural pain. They also found that because of an inknown cause. For quite some time i have had a few ribs popped out of place due to inflammation of my muscles in the walls of my lungs. It has also caused my spine to come out of allignment and i cant sleep, stand, or sit straight. I am starting physical therapy soo and i am hopeful that it will relieve some of my chest and back pain. Although my clinic doctors agree that it looks as if this will be around for the next 4-6 years. I am just wondering if anyone has suggestions. I'm sure a lot of you can relate. Right now im not on much pain pills but once i start physical therapy they are going to try pain patches. Because of all my current problems my school is not comfortable with me doing P.E. due to the fact of a very liimited physical exercises for me to do. But my doctors would like the school to keep me in and allow me to do the few things i can. If anyone has any pain relief advice, or any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.
 
 Thanks,
 Cody

JazzysMom · Jun 9, 2009

I have had pain for various reasons over the years. The different things that have helped are chiropractic care, massage, yoga/stretching, warm compresses, ibupfren or other anti inflammatories & sadly.....narcotic pain relievers.

Sometimes its a really difficult plug that you need to get up & they dont always show on the xray. The bad thing about these is that it hurts so bad its hard to work on getting it up & out!

JazzysMom · Jun 9, 2009

I have had pain for various reasons over the years. The different things that have helped are chiropractic care, massage, yoga/stretching, warm compresses, ibupfren or other anti inflammatories & sadly.....narcotic pain relievers.

Sometimes its a really difficult plug that you need to get up & they dont always show on the xray. The bad thing about these is that it hurts so bad its hard to work on getting it up & out!

JazzysMom · Jun 9, 2009

I have had pain for various reasons over the years. The different things that have helped are chiropractic care, massage, yoga/stretching, warm compresses, ibupfren or other anti inflammatories & sadly.....narcotic pain relievers.

Sometimes its a really difficult plug that you need to get up & they dont always show on the xray. The bad thing about these is that it hurts so bad its hard to work on getting it up & out!

JazzysMom · Jun 9, 2009

I have had pain for various reasons over the years. The different things that have helped are chiropractic care, massage, yoga/stretching, warm compresses, ibupfren or other anti inflammatories & sadly.....narcotic pain relievers.

Sometimes its a really difficult plug that you need to get up & they dont always show on the xray. The bad thing about these is that it hurts so bad its hard to work on getting it up & out!

JazzysMom · Jun 9, 2009

I have had pain for various reasons over the years. The different things that have helped are chiropractic care, massage, yoga/stretching, warm compresses, ibupfren or other anti inflammatories & sadly.....narcotic pain relievers.
 
 Sometimes its a really difficult plug that you need to get up & they dont always show on the xray. The bad thing about these is that it hurts so bad its hard to work on getting it up & out!

Kaersta · Jun 12, 2009

hey im Kaersta an i have cf im 17 an iv had it all my life. the reason i have chest an back pain is i cough all the time.. i can laugh without coughing. but one thing that helps is the hot rock that massage ppl use get those an they help with the whol back pain.. i try not to take anymore meds than possible they actually make me sick.. so ya try massages or get a book on reflexolagy an there is some stuff n there for cf ppl ways to relive some symptoms an they work..

- kaersta@hotmail.com

Kaersta · Jun 12, 2009

hey im Kaersta an i have cf im 17 an iv had it all my life. the reason i have chest an back pain is i cough all the time.. i can laugh without coughing. but one thing that helps is the hot rock that massage ppl use get those an they help with the whol back pain.. i try not to take anymore meds than possible they actually make me sick.. so ya try massages or get a book on reflexolagy an there is some stuff n there for cf ppl ways to relive some symptoms an they work..

- kaersta@hotmail.com

Kaersta · Jun 12, 2009

hey im Kaersta an i have cf im 17 an iv had it all my life. the reason i have chest an back pain is i cough all the time.. i can laugh without coughing. but one thing that helps is the hot rock that massage ppl use get those an they help with the whol back pain.. i try not to take anymore meds than possible they actually make me sick.. so ya try massages or get a book on reflexolagy an there is some stuff n there for cf ppl ways to relive some symptoms an they work..

- kaersta@hotmail.com

Kaersta · Jun 12, 2009

hey im Kaersta an i have cf im 17 an iv had it all my life. the reason i have chest an back pain is i cough all the time.. i can laugh without coughing. but one thing that helps is the hot rock that massage ppl use get those an they help with the whol back pain.. i try not to take anymore meds than possible they actually make me sick.. so ya try massages or get a book on reflexolagy an there is some stuff n there for cf ppl ways to relive some symptoms an they work..

- kaersta@hotmail.com

Kaersta · Jun 12, 2009

hey im Kaersta an i have cf im 17 an iv had it all my life. the reason i have chest an back pain is i cough all the time.. i can laugh without coughing. but one thing that helps is the hot rock that massage ppl use get those an they help with the whol back pain.. i try not to take anymore meds than possible they actually make me sick.. so ya try massages or get a book on reflexolagy an there is some stuff n there for cf ppl ways to relive some symptoms an they work..
 
 - kaersta@hotmail.com

LittleFlav · Jul 6, 2009