Comment by coned88 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by coned88 | Hacker News Reader

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I suffer from anxiety and panic and have for years. Just reading this post and your post makes me anxious. The reason being I have seen a Cardiologist and had stress tests but years ago. 2 of them about 9-10 years ago after so many ER visits and then another about 5-6 years ago. All were fine.

EKG's have always been normal as has blood work when I did go to the ER. At my primary care doctor EKG's have also always been normal.

I have been in CBT and getting better but I have to say your post kinda opened a wound. The reason being my primary care doctor says I don't need a stress test and that the prior ones are good enough. She says given my age of 29 and risk factors there's just no reason for it. So far she's been right. Over the last 12 years the hundreds of times I have had chest pain I am not dead yet.

I guess now you have me a tad worried. My primary care doctor and her colleagues have been so convinced at times when I show up with chest pain they don't even think a EKG is necessary.

Hi there. I'm sorry it caused you worry to read what I had written. I was speaking largely in general terms - as I am sure you would be aware discussing medical situations, despite being medically trained, over the internet is not the best way to do things and I would hesitate to tell anyone that it is ok to sit at home and do nothing if they experience chest pain they are concerned about, it should be investigated at least once throughly.

It certainly does sound that if you are known to a cardiologist. have previously had negative stress tests and have had recurrent episodes of the same type of pain with negative ECG's then you have been worked up appropriately to exclude a cardiac cause. Your primary care doctor knows you much better than I ever can over the internet so I defer to their more expert opinion and interpretation of your recurrent presentations. Take solace in the fact that previous investigations have shown the pain to be non-cardiac in origin.

Wow, that's horrible, but I'm also upset you put it on robbiep. It's random advice on an internet thread titled "Just had a heart attack" under a comment "Can someone with some medical experience write about what are exactly the warning signs for a heart attack?".

That sounds like there was more than ample warning about the subject matter. If it's triggering, you might not want to seek it out?

It could be a tense ribcage muscle. If you stretch and the pain changes then it's probably a muscle.

It is that at times. But sometimes not.

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