Costochondritis

I got home from Ottawa and noticed that I had some chest pain.  When it didn't seem to be going away, Barb and I decided to go to the hospital to have it checked out.  We went to the Stratford hospital on a Tuesday evening and there was no one in emergency but even if there was since I was complaining of chest pain I would have gone to the head of the line.  They took me in and the doctor asked me where it hurt and pointed to a specific place on my chest and he said that was good because if it was  a heart problem it would hurt all over.  He said he wasn't worried but he would get them to do all the tests.  So they did blood tests and EKGs and took x-rays.  After a few hours waiting for the tests to come back, the doctor came back and said everything was a-okay and I was good to go.  That I had costochondritis.  It was a situation with where some of the chest muscles pull away from the rib cage.  He said no one knows what causes it and no one knows how long it will take to get better but it wasn't serious.  He said I was right to come in the hospital and have it checked out because 80% of people's first noticing chest pain are dead before they can do anything.