Thank you so much for this- I am so grateful! And it is also so helpful to hear (as I come back from my I-wish-I-could-control-this-by-using-willpower reverie)...it also now helps me make sense of why they are recommending the surgery from a purely anatomical perspective. The doctor explained it but after the words "surgery" and "rib resection" were mentioned, I couldn't fully hear what he was saying about why it was necessary because I was just trying to process. Now I also understand why he was recommending surgery- because the activities I do most induce that compression and it got to the point where even taking a lot of time off from those activities didn't help.