Or get fucking GERD/other minor issues that masquerade as heart attacks (tight chest, numb left arm, heart racing, lightheaded), wonder if you should go, really don't want to pay yet another $1000+ to find out it's nothing again, hear the "better be safe than sorry" voice in your head that doctors keep telling you, and then maybe go versus waiting it out.
I swear I won't really know when I've actually had a heart attack because I've been faked out too many times by GERD reactions.
I've gone about 6 times to ER for it over the past five years, and probably stayed home another ~20 times. Each time I decided to go it's been nothing.
I've driven myself to the ER each time, though, even if maybe I shouldn't, so that saved a little money. Helps that a hospital is only 5 minutes away.
I am finally getting an endoscopy soon, maybe it'll discover something treatable.
I can't help think that also ties up to some mental health issues. Anecdotal, but I know a hypochondriac, a bad one, and I think a lot of her issues stem from anxiety of leaving her daughter behind if she dies or of losing her daughter (she's raised her kid to be one too). It became really clear this past year when taking to her how she thought every little thing she had waa Covid, even when it never matched the symptoms, and was always worried about how it'd affect her daughter.
She's also very much an overprotective parent in a lot of other ways, and I can't help but think the hypochondriac part stems from that.
I swear I won't really know when I've actually had a heart attack because I've been faked out too many times by GERD reactions.
I've gone about 6 times to ER for it over the past five years, and probably stayed home another ~20 times. Each time I decided to go it's been nothing.
I've driven myself to the ER each time, though, even if maybe I shouldn't, so that saved a little money. Helps that a hospital is only 5 minutes away.
I am finally getting an endoscopy soon, maybe it'll discover something treatable.