Koala 77, thank you for the specific information. I will ask my Neurologist about it.

Of course, I will have to write it down or I will forget it.

My wife has two theories as to why my ribs hurt so bad.

1. She found me unconscious on the kitchen floor (tile) and I probably hurt my ribs as I fell.

2. My Medic Alert Dog. I have CCHS and when I fall asleep without my ventilator hooked up, she will literally jump at me, hitting my chest with her front paws. If that does not wake me up, she licks my face. If that does not work, she punches my face with her nose (41 pound, 5 year old Portuguese Water Dog) and if none of these things works she alerts my wife or whoever is home with me. Since my memory is poor, my wife wonders if I didn't fall asleep in my chair and Tolly hit my ribs too hard. Hard to say, but front and back were incredibly sore.

Percocet did nothing for me, so I got Oxycodone. THAT worked. After about ten days my ribs are still tender. None of the doctors seem to know what happened.

As a result of those incidents my specialists ran over 30 lab tests on me.

My PSA jumped from 5 to 18 in 6 months and my hs-crp is 32.20. So I have other things to think about. I can't remember if I mentioned it, but they put me on Septra DS. In a 30 day period I will take approximately 60,000mg of it. I have never heard of anyone taking that much antibiotic outside of a hospital, but keep your fingers crossed. Prayers gratefully accepted. Life just keeps getting more interesting. Thanks again...Dave