Should I or shouldn't I....

[Noahs Mom]

So I've been having some chest pains radiating into my back.  They scare me.  I tell my coworkers "I keep having all these heart attacks!"  They laugh, but in my mind I'm starting to wonder if as of day 3 they're not gone -- so maybe I should get it checked out?  I keep hoping it'll just go away.   Maybe I'll bring it up with my Chiro/Accupuncture lady...

At what point do I go to the doctor?  I'm at the point in "recovering" from HA where I kind of write everything off as HA.  Should I go?  He'll say "it's anxiety" before I even walk in the door, so is there even a point in going?  It's like the hard lumps behind my knee... it's probably normal, just something that happens as you gain a butt load of weight while taking Lexapro....  fat deposits or something... but in the back of my mind, i always wonder if it's really cancer... like the lymph nodes behind my knees are so full of cancer stuff that they're going to explode, lol!

[Kayteecatt]

Here's what I say about any kind of chest pain.  It's always a good idea to have it checked out...the first time it happens...now, if you go and see the doc about it and they say it's not cardio, then we simply have to accept that.   One of my biggest fears here is that we will one day overlook something simply because we believe it's yet another anxiety symptom and someone will actually be ill.

This is why I refuse to tell someone to go or not to go to the hossy.  I just don't want that kind of weight on my shoulders.  I give advice and tell people what I've done in my own case, but that's as far as I'll go.

You take care of yourself though, use your inner voice on this one.  Not the HA voice, but the little weak one way in the back there that we all forget about.

[AnxiouSteve]

Great advice, K.

[Xalatimo]

Great advice, K.

I agree–very good advice.