Quack wrote:I mean, isn’t one of the alternatives that you are actually having a heart attack and die?
That's the scary reason they use to pull you in and make bank.
They also say sh!t like, "Are you able to find a ride? Do NOT drive yourself to the hospital."
Stress and anxiety make up something like 30% of chest pain reports. The most common chest pain is inflamed muscle tissues.
I was 32 and overnighted in the cardiac unit with a chest pain that would cramp my chest. After a couple of weeks it would stop my breathing for a few seconds, which was finally what it took for me to go in.
The cure: being overnighted I had permission to sleep, take a day off, and no one could ask me for anything.
It was a weird work situation and I'd just had my first kid. A complete pile of stress. Doc determined it was some sort of adrenaline release. It had a name, but that was 20 years ago.
Ultimately, most chest pains are the equivalent of thinking a stomach cramp is a bursting appendix: 98% chance it's not a thing that will kill you, or even require an overnight at the hospital, but given how sh!tty the other 2% is, just go in. It sucks, can be embarrassing, but you drastically reduce your chance of extensive procedures and death by taking the precaution IF it ends up being something.