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[–] 100 points 11 months ago (4 children)

For he does not have free healthcare, in the land of the Freely Trampled.

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  • [+] -22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    No country has "free" healthcare (afaik), people just have a fixed percentage amount deducted from their gross income every month.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 73 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Light up another Marlboro, you'll be fine.

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  • [–] 67 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 48 points 11 months ago (17 children)

    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

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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....

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ooo, now i know the name for that pain i get in my chest cartilage ever since that car accident

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I cracked some of the cartilage of my ribs a while back as well and I'm pretty sure now suffer from bouts of recurring costochondritis, myself. Could be that. Mine is really fun, pain right over my heart and sometimes left arm pain. On top of that, I've always had health related anxiety, so it's "Don't Have a Panic Attack!" on hard mode. Or I'm slowly dying of heart failure, who knows.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Also,

    The mountain dew chugger doesn't concern themselves with the numb feeling in their feet.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    That's just the stabby cell telling you you're doing a good job

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Precordial catch. More common when you’re younger but hoo boy do they hurt like a motherfucker. Fortunately they’re harmless.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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    Had what felt like the worst gas pain of my life. Started as indigestion feeling but slowly "resolved" down. And then resolved to the right.

    Congratulations to me I had appendicitis and caught it before it burst whee.

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