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Also,
The mountain dew chugger doesn’t concern themselves with the numb feeling in their feet.
For he does not have free healthcare, in the land of the Freely Trampled.
No country has “free” healthcare (afaik), people just have a fixed percentage amount deducted from their gross income every month.
Obviously everyone knows there are costs. It’s free (at the point of use) but almost noone needs the brackets to be explicit. The point being that it’s more efficient and you continue to get it even if you have no “gross income” because we’re not monsters.
Also how many countries have a “fixed percentage” with literally no allowances or brackets. I can’t think of any.
Well, yeah, but if you are unemployed you still get to benefit from it for free in Spain, so it’s a collectively paid free healthcare.
Kids also get to benefit from it without depending on their parents’ jobs or anything.
We pay the infrastructure that we can provide free healthcare. It’s free in the receiving end.
yeah hell yeah! thats right! i got your FIXED amount right here! I am even WILLING TO NEGOTIATE IF that covers negotiating pricing vs coverage blah blah.
THIS IS A PERFECTLY CALM CONVERSATION
Sometimes I get those, but it’s just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_catch_syndrome
If I take a deep breath the pain increases until it suddenly stops
Lol
Cause: No one knows.
Treatment: Tell the patient to stop worrying about it.
Sums up a surprising amount of our biology
Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky
Other names: Texidor’s twinge
The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1 psychic damage and have a disadvantage on their next attack roll
Oh my god. The feeling has a name. Thank you. I had always thought it was a heart problem or a rib that popped.
SAME thanks so much!!!
ooo, now i know the name for that pain i get in my chest cartilage ever since that car accident
Holyy, thanks for this. I can finally put a name to it. Was wondering with my partner for ages what sometimes suddenly befalls us, especially if we’re lying in a weird position.
Now I know what to call this! Then ignore it once it goes away.
Easy solution:
da bears
Who would win in a fight?
One regular sized Ditka, or one hundred tiny Ditkas?
da bears
Light up another Marlboro, you’ll be fine.
Ah, yeah. That’s smooth.
Had a heart attack 2 1\2 months ago, didn’t know I was having one, thought it was indigestion, after a day and a half it was only getting worse, drove myself to the hospital, they gave me an EKG and said I was having a heart attack. They had to send me to different hospital for a stent, 30% of the bottom left side of my heart is now dead. 20% EF. Had a complete blockage in my lad. If I had gone in when the symptoms 1st started my heart wouldn’t be all screwed up. It’s better to be safe than sorry. I’m only 58.
Firstly, I’m so sorry to hear that and I hope you’re doing okay
I’ve never thought about how a seemingly-less-dangerous heart attack can be worse in the long run
I have a family member (roughly your age) who was playing softball and collapsed on the field while celebrating. We’re lucky enough that he was playing with several medical professionals and wasnt far from a hospital. He had a stent (maybe two) put in and I don’t think much (if any) of his heart is dead
Wow that’s kind of scary how little we may notice something so dangerous.
nice job surviving tho that’s a rough experience
Seriously though, what are these? I’ve had them for years and I’ve tried to ask my doctor about it, but I had too many issues to deal with or they didn’ believe me idk
Idk but I’ve went in and everything checked out OK. Had a day where I had what I thought was a heart attack. Vision was going, heart was hurting, couldn’t breathe. I thought, “ah shit. Here I go.” and then it went away. Went in and it was not a heart attack. The answer was a shrug and nothing is abnormal.
So like… If it is a serious concern, it didn’t feel like it was treated as one and nothing was found.
Do you have issues with anxiety/panic attacks? Fun fact, panic attacks can manifest physically with nearly identical symptoms to a heart attack!
(This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get things checked out though)
Yeah - I just knew I was gonna die a few months back, and it was a panic attack. Which is weird because I’ve historically been low-stress. But between work being crazy and the world being what it is right now, things apparently got to me subconsciously.
My chest got tight, my breathing was labored, my arm went numb. It was terrifying.
And thinking you’re having a heart attack doesn’t help with the panic attack. But it was amazing how as soon as the EKG showed normal, everything started feeling better quickly. Just the knowledge that it was panic helped so much.
But you should still go to the ER in those cases, because if you assume it’s a panic attack and dont go, but turn out to be wrong…
This happened to me too a few years ago, and I’m also quite a calm person, so it caught me by surprise.
It was 6 months or so after becoming a father, and my best guess is that the sleep deprivation was messing with my head. It stopped and I’ve been fine since.
Seriously.
Me: I have these medical issues I would like to have checked out. Maybe a blood test would be in order?
Doctor: How many units of alcohol do you consume per sitting, per month, please be specific.
Me: Uh…
Doctor: At what exact time do you poop every day?!?
Obviously you should talk to your doctor about it, but as someone who’s been dealing with different health issues/symptoms, it could be many things. The ones that aren’t directly linked to heart issues, off the top of my head: various stomach issues (gastritis, GERD/acid reflux, h. pylori infection), vagus nerve issues (sometimes caused by stomach problems) that trigger anxiety and panic attacks, costochondritis, even things like mental trauma response can cause wild physical symptoms.
h. pylori infection
stomach ulcers, in common
Yes, h. pylori can be the cause of ulcers, but it also affects many other things.
Dehydration does that to me. Like sometimes I just forget to drink for an entire day. Then I wake up in the middle of the night and feel like total shit. Pain all over my body, chest included.
Anxiety, gerd or heartburn in general (it’s literally called heartburn, this is more common than you’d think), and like a million other things.
I would get it with anxiety all the time before I was medicated, my doctor told me after my 3rd EKG that the pain from a heart attack really happens when you work it HARD. That might not be much for some people, but the Doc asked me if this happens often after physical activity at all.
My answer was no, and I hike, walk, go up stairs, do all that stuff and have no issue or pain with my heart. YMMV, and as I age I still take heart stuff seriously, but that reduced my anxiety around it significantly.
It was heartburn for me. As soon as I take calcium carbonate it goes away. Absolutely horrible pain which I didn’t think could possible be heartburn, is/was heartburn. If I don’t have calcium carbonate I just have to grit and bear through it for up to an hour or more if it’s at night.
I used to take calcium carbonate all the time for heartburn. Then i had 3 kidney stones. Labs show high calcium so doc said no more of that. Now I take Omeprozol before breakfast and it’s much better.
I’m currently going through evaluation for heart issues and this is a great comfort.
For me it turned out to be anxiety panic attacks. I started taking anti-anxiety medication and I haven’t had any in years.
I get them sometimes too. After googling it before, my best guess is precordial catch. Apparently good posture and staying hydrated can help prevent it.
I have neither a good posture or good hydration, so that’s a great start lol.
But I read about it and it’s quite reasuring that it’s nothing serious. Thanks!
Do they go away if you breath in deeply? Does it hurt more when you breath in? Then it may be back related. There are nerves going from your back under the ribs to your chest.
Last year I had it happen to me, turns out it was displaced cartilage in my chest. No idea how it happened. Immediately after finding that out, I got a back injury at work (unrelated) and had to go to physio for it, which also coincidentally helped my chest pain too.
Have you checked for gastritis and digestive difficulties (food allergy, lactose or gluten intolerance, etc)?
Monthhour…This has been happening to me since i was a kid.
I thought I was having little heart attacks or something, but i couldn’t find anything online about it and was dismissed by doctors.
Is this not normal?
Edit: it was probably precordial catch syndrome
You’re still alive, so hopefully I’ll be ok!?
Apparently feeling like you are having the start of a heart attack every couple months from age 8-35 is actually “normal” and “benign”, i am just learning today…
The human body is so fucked lol
Take a salt tablet, cowboy. Get back in that saddle. If it still hurts, chug some Pepto Bismol. We got work to do.
That’s just the stabby cell telling you you’re doing a good job
Is this the pain that feels like a knitting needle getting rammed into your chest and only lasts for like 2 seconds but it’s two second you think “Shit! I’ve been stabbed” and everyone around looks at you because you’ve Just reacted like you’ve been stabbed.
Precordial catch. More common when you’re younger but hoo boy do they hurt like a motherfucker. Fortunately they’re harmless.
By Odins beard, thank you!
I’ve just been assuming someone’s trying to voodoo me and almost getting there.
This is a great relief.It could also be voodoo. I collect hair from barber shop dumpsters to make voodoo dolls to jab from time to time having no idea who it’s tied to. I’m not the only one doing it, either, there’s a pretty active discord community for it.
Oh great, back to square one!
It’s likely just gas.
It is always a turd inside you causing the problems.
