Sulfasalazine Treatment for Costochondritis and Tietzes Syndrome?

I’d never heard of sulfasalazine until I read an article in the Journal of Rheumatology on the management of costochondritis. You can read about the differences between Tietze’s Syndrome and costochondritis in this article, but for treatment purposes they can be treated similarly. That’s why reading about a possible “new” treatment for Tietze’s syndrome was exciting!
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SGB therapy for Tietze’s syndrome pain

Stellate Ganglion Block therapy–A Treatment for Tietze’s Syndrome

I recently came across an article in the Japanese Journal of Anesthesia called stellate ganglion block therapy for a patient with Tietze’s syndrome.” The article, which can be found here, describes a patient who had severe Tietze’s syndrome for more than six years. Her pain (on a scale from 1 to 10) was a full 10; anyone who has ever had Tietze’s syndrome knows that kind of pain. But after this specific kind of therapy, the woman’s pain diminished to 3 out of 10.
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Ovo-vegan Diet Cured my Tietze’s Syndrome

I went on a vegetarian diet not because of ethics, but because of a disease completely unrelated to Tietze’s Syndrome, called Reactive Hypoglycemia. The diet (with a little tweaking) definitely helped me combat my hypoglycemia. However, the diet also had an unexpected side effect–after sixteen years of suffering from Tietze’s Syndrome, my (sometimes excrutiating) symptoms have disappeared.
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Treatments for Tietze’s Syndrome

What are the best treatments for Tietze’s Syndrome?

Rest

Being barely able to move for six weeks due to Tietze’s syndrome was incredibly hard for me—I was a very active person and walked several miles a day. However, avoiding many “normal” activities were a must, to allow my ribs to heal. These included:
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