How to have a simultaneously terrifying and frustrating evening in three easy steps:

[Cynical]

1. Holy shit! Sudden chest pain on the left side!
2. Go to E.R. Go through 4 hours of tests.
3. It's just a skeletal-muscular issue. Cardio numbers and blood numbers all kick ass.

Optional step 4: Ask the doctor what the difference in symptoms between this and a heart attack are, so that you don't go to the ER for nothing ever again. Get told "there is none".

 

[jam1220]

skeletal muscular issue? like your muscles aren't getting enough exercise or something?

 

[Cynical]

The doctor at the ER said it looked like I had pulled a muscle in my chest, and prescribed a muscle relaxer.

 

[Vadsamoht]

My man got so many feels, he pulled a muscle in his heart.

 

[OP8]

That sucks. I had a mild panic attack a couple of years ago and was certain my heart would explode at any sec. After spending several hours in the ER finding out I was fine, I left feeling like a total moron.

 

[jam1220]

well the good thing is you're alright. can you still do your normal stuff or do you have to stay home and heal?

 

[Cynical]

I can still do my normal stuff (if I was a weightlifter or an athlete, I couldn't do that, but I'm a computer programmer, so it's not a problem). It's not a major injury; it just happens to be one the symptoms of which present very similarly to a heart attack.

@OP8 : Don't feel bad about that, panic attacks are some serious shit. People who haven't either had one or have friends/family that have had one think it's "just a bit of nerves", but nothing could be further from the truth.