26 yr old femail 5 6 145lbs .... i just recently had bronchitis twice w/in two months (don t feel as if it ever fully went away during that time) during this time i was also painting rooms in a new house. one night when i went to sit on the couch i got a stapping pain in my chest (a little on my right side along my sternum)....i waited about three days and went back to the dr. he said it was costochondritis and told me to take aleeve or ibprofrin. i did that for 2 weeks w/ no change, and called the dr. back who then prescribed me a steroid pack. i have one day left on the pack, and still NO CHANGE. i ve also discovered 2-3 swollen lymph nodes (i m assuming) on my right side near my armpit. Could I have some other type of infection? or could costo cause swollen lymph nodes? Also, this pain is pretty much a constant, however sometimes it s better/worse. if i stretch, pull, reach, turn wrong it goes right back to hurting again. i have a 1 yr old so it s hard to do NOTHING and rest it. I do tend to push on the lymph nodes often (anxiety about them and checking to see if they re gone/changed ect) which probably doesn t help them either. nodes are soft quishy movable and very little discomfert. main pain problem is the middle/right side of my chest along the sternum and towards my right shoulder a bit below my collar bone/above my breast. pains been going on for 5 weeks, swollen spots about 2.