just a rant; confusion and GERD

This is just a rant. I know there is a lot I have to do concerning bras, and I will eventually do it. I am just too worn out and demoralized to start the process quite yet.

I started getting pains in my sternum in early January. My first thought that it was my bra, since that's always an obvious thing. I have worn a fruit of the loom comfort underwire bra for years (38D)(clothing is not my thing); it had been fine but now it was painful. But I hadn't gained weight (5'4", 144 lbs), and adjusting didn't help. The band was really tight and my sternum hurt. I then figured it was stress; I was traveling back and forth across country over and over to take care of a dying relative. I did go to the ER since I was urged to and it wasn't cardiac.

I had to stop wearing a bra because of the sternum pain. But it just got worse and worse even without the bra. But I couldn't really do anything because of the relative. I figured it was costochondritis since that's another option.

Then I figured it was GERD, because I tried antacids and they helped. I tried to treat the GERD. Lots of things (but not PPIs yet). That helped somewhat but it was still bad. Then I figured out that lying back helped most (which makes no sense with GERD). Then I found that a random bra that I acquired at one point but had never worn (a 38DD; the cup is a little loose) helped a whole lot; enormously. I had cured GERD with a bra???

Now that the relative has passed on I still have to travel for the memorial and other stuff in that connection. I still don't have a bra to wear (except for the one that helps, but really isn't actually comfortable and I feel like a sausage in it and it is just one bra) and I don't have time go get one; I have to fly out in a few days. But not wearing a bra is painful. I can't stand the thought of all those measurements. I will eventually do them; I appreciate that the measuring system is here. But this trip will be horrible.

I should be glad that it is probably just the bra, although I don't know why a bad bra would cause reflux.