If you have any level of health anxiety, you’ll know three things for certain. One, every symptom means cancer. Two, stabbing pains in your chest means an imminent heart attack.
Three, Dr. Google diagnoses everything as cancer or heart disease. More often than not, it’s something much less serious, especially if it’s one symptom on its own. For example, stabbing chest pains can signify a cardiovascular event, but if it goes away after a few minutes and there’s no shortness of breath or shooting pain down the left arm, it’s probably just a minor ailment like precordial catch syndrome.
