Emergency!

By Not dying. - 21/04/2015 07:55 - United Kingdom - Watford

Today, I started getting really bad chest pains at work. I googled it and the internet convinced me I was having a heart attack. Scared for my life, I started to dial for an ambulance when I let out the biggest fart you could ever imagine. Turns out it was trapped gas. FML
I agree, your life sucks 29 019
You deserved it 10 907

Same thing different taste

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CODplayer4lyfe 24

Never use the Internet to check your symptoms. Never.

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At least you didn't do it after you were in the Ambulance.

The internet always convinces you that you're pregnant or moments from death

Gas is so tricky. I collapsed from severe pain a few times when I was a teenager, doctor said it was gas. But my favourite, is in early pregnancy, when you *swear* you can feel the baby flutter, and everyone's all like "it's just gas." Then a few years later, when you're definitely not pregnant, you get that exact same feeling. Guess they were right...

Normally I'd say YDI for trusting the internet, but considering how many people die from heart attacks and the ambiguity of the symptoms I can't really fault you. I would rather dial 9-1-1 and find out I only had to rip one than die because I thought I only had to fart.

Gas is actually a symptom of a heart attack.

randomheartthrob 7

Web md says everything is cancer and fd up. Don't trust the internet

So did the ambulance bring oxygen to those poor co-workers who had to suffer your blast from the ass?

Rosebudx 32

One time I was trying to determine if I had pneumonia and needed the hospital (spoiler alert: no pneumonia, but the doctors thought I did have until xrays proved otherwise). As I went through the quiz, I checked yes on chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing, excess of phlegm, etc. etc., and then the thing asked if either arm hurt and, if so, did it move. I have moderate-to-severe nerve damage in one arm (depending on which doc is talking), and at the time it didn't move at all, so I checked yes and yes. The quiz told me I had no respiratory issues but I had a broken arm that was making it hard for me to breathe.

I have moderate/severe nerve damage in my lower limbs and it's always the first thing I say to the docs just because those quizzes always tell me it's a blood clot... even if it's actually a cold or whatever it's always a blood clot. They don't take into account nerve damage.

The Internet is horrible for checking up symptoms. I had a friend who had a cold, looked it up, and it said he had AIDS. Obviously he didn't