this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
557 points (99.5% liked)
memes
21166 readers
2596 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
If you have recurring slight chest pain, it is by far most likely to be harmless, but you lose very little by getting it checked out, in contrast to potentially losing everything by not getting it checked out. Don't worry, but don't ignore it!
Just muscles / tendons / organs getting a little tangled usually
Luckily I'm aware mine is from arthritis in my sternum.
Unluckily, I have arthritis in my sternum.
I had no idea that was even possible!
Yeah, where your ribs attach is technically a joint. I had a fall as a kid that tore all kinds of shit in my chest, and 15 years later it started flaring up occasionally.
One of my colleagues had an issue with a pectoral muscle that caused it to cramp often. He would massage it when it cramped up. Purely a physical issue with the muscle. One day he caused a minor stir in the cafeteria at a client site as he grimaced and clenched his chest. My colleagues and I had some explaining to do, since by all appearances there were three people telling a person in cardiac distress that he should just rub some tiger balm on it and suck it up, like a man.
The mild chest pain causes anxiety, which causes more chest pain, which causes more anxiety, which causes more chest pain, which causes more anxiety, and on and on until full blown panic attack and the whole time it feels like you’re dying
It’s great :)
A friend of my dads had a similar issue but it was caused by his internal defibrillator. The new ones are supposed to be better but back in the day aparently internal defibrillators kicked hard when they went off and this guy dreaded it every time which would cause him to panic until his heart rate spiked enough to set it off. He would feel his heart starting to speed up and he would start getting anxious about the defib going off which would make his heart rate spike more which would make him more anxious and that cycle would continue until the defib went off and basically hard reset him.
He took "have you tried turning it off and on again?" too seriously
And you've convinced yourself you're having a heart attack.
It's a wonderful experience.
Oh hey, been there before.
Been there too. It sucks. Luckily now I have stuff that helps me.
Is it more coffee? I think the answer is more coffee.
load more comments
(9 replies)
But sometimes, it just does that for the last time
yeah but not this time... i hope
The last time it did that was not the last time. I can confirm.
Every time it has happened hasn't been the last time, so statistically it's guaranteed to always be nothing, right?
It's worked for me so far, so yeah I'd say so 👍
I plan on continuing to live forever from the day I was born, and so far, I'm on track!
Statistically, the guarantee there will be a "last time" means that every time it isn't the "last time" your chance of the next one being the "last time" increase... So, you know, don't freak out or anything because that increases the chances of the next time happening sooner.
There’s no actual guarantee there will be a morbid last time with random chest pains. It could be more like the last time you burned a CD; uneventful and not really noteworthy.
Technically, heart problems only kill like..
Oof looking up those stats was depressing..
Heart disease deaths as of 2022 account for only 24% of all deaths though! So your chances of death by heart problem aren’t actually super high, especially if you don't have existing heart problems! Yay! Its probably just a panic attack! Or gas!
The share of heart attacks as a subset of all cardiovascular disease deaths is also down, but deaths from things like hypertension are way way up, relatively, so take your meds if you have them, get your exercise, eat the veggies, do the health things.
The number of times it is going happen is constantly going down.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Either way a win.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Treatment is typically reassurance
Translation: "Have a cup of cement and harden up."
oh fun! a new thing i can describe to doctors and they can note down as 🤷
If it were serious, I'd know. There's no reason to get everyone worried over literally nothing. It barely even stopped beating.
Floating up towards a white light and seeing your ancestors is a common symptom of gas
Could be prangnetcy
Chest pain kicks in: Oh fuck today's the day, aaarrrrgh--
Chest pain subsides: Oh. Well then. finishes my Monster and gets back to work
I have two herniated discs in my neck which replicate the symptoms of a heart attack. I'm told it's superficial. 🤷
load more comments
(1 replies)
"Angine de Poitrine" do be like that.
I love that they named their band after chest pain. Lmfao
This happens for me because of trapped gas. Try getting up, doing some stretches.
I think this is sometimes the cause for me too.
I would get on a regular antacid and see if that helps. As I age my acid reflux has been morphing into gerd and the generalized chest pain is random and terrifying but solvable with some tums.
As someone who used to have acid reflux that was morphing into GERD, changing my diet completely eliminated it. Low-carb works for me- also I'm mildly allergic to clove.
I guess this post is more for anyone else reading - if you have acid reflux, try figuring out which foods give you acid reflux first. It may require a radical change in diet. If you've done that and still have acid reflux, then take the medication.
That's the real problem, I like not having to worry about what I'm eating or drinking more than I'm discomforted by the results, I'm sure that balance will change at some point.
Been me for the last few days tbh. It feels like I'm on the cusp of having a panic attack, but it doesn't come full on.
Just so happened to have a dr appointment the other day already lined up and everything checked out ok so idk. It just does that sometimes I guess lol
Could be a muscle sprain, muscle cramps, anxiety, gas, allergic reaction (hives), inflamed bowel (when my appendix tried to kill me, I didn't feel any pain in my side, the only thing I felt was pain up under my sternum, like severe heartburn, due to my appendix inflamming my bowels), kidney problems, poison, forbidden love, voodoo dolls, and giving love a bad name.
It's called precordial catch syndrome.
https://piefed.ca/post/649770
It's not just one thing.
Moods can affect the heart directly.
Even heart defects can be felt decades before they get serious.
Or could be something from the sound spine that feels like it's from the chest?
Costochondritis acting up means it's about to rain
Feeling a mix of the last two in my cranky panky
view more: next ›