chest pain

A patient for the group... 44yo F with a couple year history of right> left anterior chest pains along the lateral sternal border. She is allergic to NSAIDs. She wound up undergoing a breast reduction surgery to see if that would help. It did not. I performed some costochondral/sternocostal injections with steroid that were really quite helpful for a month or so. But then pains returned. Topicals and various oral medications (duloxetine, pregabalin, etc) have been tried in the past... Read more
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