u/maaaze — reddlx

Listen a bit carefully here, because doctors are awful at explaining this to their patients:

Heart attacks feel completely different than whatever your costo feels like.

The reason your doctor is testing your heart is because they can't feel what you're feeling and won't take your word for it - patients are terrible at describing their symptoms. It's not because costo and heart attacks actually feel the exact same in reality. They are totally different.

Costo has specific points where it hurts to move and poke, and responds to topical pain medications like voltaren diclofenac gel or a lidocaine patch. Heart attacks don't. It's usually a crushing heavy chest pain that you can't really put a finger on, that will run down your arm, your jaw and to your back and have you feeling impending doom. You will know something is awfully wrong if you have a heart attack.

Not to mention you can't be having a heart attack for weeks and months and years. You'd be toast by now.

So pay attention to your costo and memorize the pain - if you understand what your costo feels like, that's your costo, and you'll know if it's a heart attack because it will be totally different.

With that being said, if you're young, and don't have the risk factors, and have been cleared by your doctor, you have zero reasons to worry. Should be more worried every time you step into a car, or cross the street. The odds are incredibly low that you'll suddenly drop dead from a heart attack. Not even worth you wasting your mental bandwidth on. Go live your life.

Now with that out of the way, you need to know something else: health anxiety surrounding costo is what actually magnifies the costo pain and can make it even more difficult to heal - you're basically training your brain to hyperfocus on it, and attach a fearful emotion to it. No good.

If you find yourself in this position, you need to unlearn this behavior by giving your mind and body evidence that it's costo with real world action - dull the pain with painkillers when needed + do costo oriented rehab that actually starts showing you results. Once the needle starts moving in the right direction, you'll get the mental peace you're looking for, and better yet, actually just beat it outright.

Hope that helps,

-Ned

(This was my reply to another user - of course not medical advice, just general info. Always speak to your medical professionals for your health issues. If you aren't diagnosed with costo, please get diagnosed without delay).