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By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2017 but it's good stuff - Canada - Ottawa

Today, my girlfriend got heartburn. She started freaking out, convinced she was having a heart attack. Five hours and an ambulance later, we finally left the ER with a diagnosis of "too many hot dogs." FML
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PennyLane27 32

Better to be safe than sorry! My husband had similar symptoms as a teenager. (Survival implied.) The first ER brushed it off as heartburn. The second ER trip almost did too but decided to do some diagnostics. He ended up having a grapefruit size cancerous tumor in his chest. You're generally pretty screwed if there's an episode of your diagnosis featured on House.

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GhostFox 33

Does she have a family history of heart attacks or other cardiac problems? Any other risk factors? If she does, then I say that her concern was justified. In the future, she should probably take a fast acting medicine like Gaviscon to see if it stops, and if it doesn't THEN go to the ER. If she doesn't have risk factors, then it sounds like she might have anxiety about her health. Either way, she needs to see a gastroenterologist about her heartburn, because that's actually acid reflux and it doesn't get better without being treated.

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