Medications

• Costochondritis responds to nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medications such as ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve).
  
  
• You may be given a local anesthetic and steroid injection in the area that is tender if normal activities become very painful and the pain does not respond to medications.
  
  
• Infectious (bacterial or fungal) costochondritis should be treated initially with IV antibiotics. Afterward, antibiotics by mouth or by IV should be continued for another two to three weeks to complete the therapy.