Costochondritis, asthma, allergies and joint pain

You may already know this, but, something like Flonase, Nasacort or Rhinocort over the counter is a good place to start before seasonal allergies hit. This spring has been horrible due to everything blooming early. I am prone to sinus infections. Also, have you ever used the NeilMed Sinus rinse? It takes a little getting use too, but, it cleans out bacteria in your nose and sinuses. It works! You don't have to use Flonase or the other mentioned sprays year round unless the doctor tells you too. I start on it right before allergy season hits and it helps. Also, I use a hepa filter in my house to pull allergens out of the air and in the winter months, I use a cool mist humidifier to put moisture in the air as being dried out can cause all kinds of sinus issues. I hope this helps.
God Bless You!

I'm actually pretty lucky with my own hayfever. I'm unlucky if it hits me on two or three days each year and I've only experienced one so far this year. I'm fairly sure that it's just the one tree I'm allergic to and we don't have many of that type of tree where I live in Australia. The weather just has to be really precise for the pollen to even reach me where I'm living at the moment. If I had ever gone to Japan I would have been a trainwreck with all of the cedar pollen there.

@barry98888
I was wondering if your symptoms come and go at all? I had asthma as a kid and never had a cough or wheezing and honestly was used to the sensation of it being difficult to breathe until I started medication. I stopped the medication for no reason honestly but my doctor thought that I might grow out of it and didnt think about it again. I got sick about three years ago and since then have had chest pain that has been pretty bad but they have no idea why. I have similar pain in my shoulder along with headaches, lightheadedness, and pins and needles. Also have somewhat similar muscle thing where in general I am more weak than usual. interested if anyone else has any other similar symptoms with athsma. I only thought that this might even be the case the past few days and have a mayo appointment in a month but kinda impatient since this has been going on for so long

@winston137
Hi Winston, A lot has changed since I posted here and I now have a complete explanation for the causes of my issues. It basically comes down to the fact that I was overdosed with psychiatric medications twelve years ago and the treating physicians decided to cover up what they did to me in order to avoid liability. I turned out to have a no function CYP2C19 gene variant which means that my body has much more difficulty breaking down medications like the psychiatric drugs. The overdoses caused a range of health issues. So antidepressant overdose induced a series of strokes which the physicians just decided to ignore, even the severe one's. At the moment I believe that the shoulder issues were likely due to shoulder subluxation, a mild form of joint dislocation which isn't as painful as a full dislocation but induces the limited range of motion and difficulty moving the arms. I was found to have bursitis in both shoulders in 2015 and it's likely that this would have resulted from the subluxation.

Benzodiazepine overdose resulted in all of the symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal and subsequent efforts to treat the results of the earlier treatments led to kindling of the withdrawal so that it wound up being much worse. From what I have been able to put together benzodiazepine withdrawal involves fluctuations in histamine and oestrogen levels in the body and, since there's not much information about fluctuating oestrogen levels in men, I have been forced to do my investigations by looking at women's menstrual cycles to try to understand what happens in benzodiazepine withdrawal. Still, the histamine issues are a bit like MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome) with extreme allergic reactions. At the time of the peak of my withdrawal I had believed, not knowing about the withdrawal, that the asthma symptoms must have been due to someone planting a Japanese cedar in my neighbourhood however it was actually just my bodies extreme reactions to normal allergens. Every reaction was turned up to it's maximum setting.

Assuming that I'm right about the oestrogen issues then these were the cause of my own electric shock sensations and pins and needles throughout the peak of my withdrawal. I blame the oestrogen for the waves of severity which people going through benzodiazepine withdrawal experience and yes, the symptoms waxed and waned over and over again throughout the peak of my withdrawal.

I don't know whether any of this relates to the medications which your doctors had you taking but hope that it provides you with some idea of what may have happened to you.