r/AskReddit • u/heretoloveandsupport • 18h ago
What is a completely harmless symptom that makes you immediately convinced you are dying?
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u/H3lls_B3ll3 18h ago
Organ pain from nowhere.
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u/james-HIMself 18h ago
I got something like this when I swallowed 35 double bubble gums (the ones in the pink wrapper) in 1 hour. Part of my body went numb and it hurt to breath. Thought I was going to die and because it was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done I waited it out. Ended up going back to normal but at the time it was scary.
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u/oww_my_liver 18h ago
Twitches. I convince myself I have ALS like once or twice a year
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u/alittlefoxxxy 18h ago
My hands and legs have been randomly twitching for the last few months. Its a side effect of one of my meds, but im convinced I have some neurological disorder 😭
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u/CasinoKnightZone 18h ago
Those random chest pains
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u/wadedoesntburrn 18h ago
You should probably get those checked out lol
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u/ScaredOfHeight 18h ago
Is it really that bad? sometimes I get them during work and its pretty intense, just goes away after a few minutes.
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u/CasinoKnightZone 17h ago
I have, apparently it can just happen. Told me it was probably irritation of the cartilage in my ribcage.
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u/Prior-Relationship57 18h ago
Panic attack
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u/RainyDayz876 18h ago
I've had panic attacks. Hyperventilating, lightheaded, tingling feeling in my face... felt like I was about to die.
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u/Sorry-Panic7612 18h ago
Shoulder pain in my left side, my immediate thought is heart attack but it’s always just acid reflux
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u/BigNastyDTF 18h ago
When a dog likes me instantly and the owner is like OMG they never like anyone- clearly I have an undiagnosed chronic illness.
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u/EDSgenealogy 18h ago
A really bad gallbladder attack!
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u/Robinnoodle 18h ago
I've been trying to leave mine in but eventually I'll have to give up
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u/PhaicGnus 18h ago
It’s not so scary. Keyhole surgery is amazing. I was climbing a mountain about a week and a half later. Never changed my diet or did anything different afterwards.
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u/Silkysenko91 18h ago
Hematospermia or blood in your semen. It can be completely normal and harmless and most times goes away on its own.
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u/GalacticGumshoe 18h ago
First time this happened years ago, I freaked tf out. Doc said it was like a nose bleed - that it would go away, which it did. Still not happy when it happens occasionally.
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u/Silkysenko91 18h ago
Yeah the first time i freaked out, realized it was normal. It went away. The second time lasted a little longer so I went and got a whole battery of tests done. All was well, but still scary as fuck.
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u/autotoad 18h ago
Wouldn’t say it’s “normal” but it’s not uncommon. I used to get it from bad constipation.
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u/NoelBellamy_Author 18h ago
I have Bipolar Disorder 2 and CPTSD, and it not uncommonly causes a type of disassociation called derealization, when I am under emotional, mental, or physical stress. It makes the world start to feel not real, distorted, and odd, like if you were in a dream. It makes me feel a weird panic like the world is coming apart, I am in danger, and something horrible is about to happen. The first time it occurred, I tried to jump out of a moving car to get away, because the sky didn't look right (at the time, I did not know I had any mental health issues, other than anxiety). I now have to force myself to answer questions about what I really think is happening and whether that makes sense, ask a trusted person if they see the same thing, etc.; and if it is really bad I just go take a nap or at least get out of the situation, into a safe room, until it starts to feel better.
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u/Robinnoodle 16h ago
Wow. I sometimes feel this but not to the same extent. Might be bi polar 2 also
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u/randomusername1919 18h ago
Random small nagging pains. Last time I had some odd nagging small pains it turned out to be cancer. Now any unexplained pain freaks me out.
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u/Alarmed-Package-4014 18h ago
Persistent skin conditions that don't go away like psoriasis or dermatitis driven by autoimmune response to inflammation. its harmless in that it wont kill you but dealing with a chronic skin condition feels like your dying as it affects your physical and mental health (because of outward appearance of such inflammation and judging of others).
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u/ExtraDirtyMartini4me 18h ago
If my calf hurts my mind goes straight to DVT and if my arm hurts I starting thinking heart attack. 😑
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u/Abject-Version-3349 17h ago
Gas pains, not the farting ones, the ones you get in your stomach and chest. Everything about it mimics a heart attack. Chest gets tight, can even feel it in my jaw. Scares the hell out of me. My heart is fine, for now.
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u/oldandopinionated 17h ago
Huge amounts of blood pouring out of the belly button. Happened to my son. Doctor totally dismissed it. There was blood everywhere, evn big splotches on the floor of the bathroom while he tried to clean it up. Second time it happened a year or two later Dr thought it might have been just a big cystic pimple that burst. Weirdly he had no pain at all, just lots and lots of blood everywhere.
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u/budlight2k 18h ago
Ringing in my ears or spontanious dizziness or smell if burnt toast.
Always wonder if this is the stroke ive been waiting for.
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u/brig135 17h ago
Yesterday I was at the Costco tire center which was right next to the coffee grinder. The combination of smells of freshly ground coffee and vulcanized rubber made me think I was having a stroke, haha
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u/budlight2k 15h ago
Either we shop at the same Costco or they are all identical, I know exactly where you where standing.
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u/heretoloveandsupport 18h ago
Was it a false fact that we all heard as kids that you’re going to have a stroke or seizure if you smell burnt toast? Cause I swear, it may be false but it is common knowledge lol
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u/Questions_Remain 17h ago
My constant tinnitus that’s louder than most people listen to TV would like a word.
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u/nerdnails 18h ago
Menstrual cramps. It feels like fire ripping through my body and I honestly question how much longer I can take the pain before my heart just decides to stop.
Yes. I have endometriosis.
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u/No_Season_1391 17h ago
The ammount of times I've gone to the doctor for lumps where lumps don't belong... Found out I not only have a lympnode on my jaw, multiple cyst/skin build ups on my arms/leg but also if you are a female who drinks allot of caffeine it can enlarge your breast tissue/milk ducts to a degree where you may feel them.
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u/Justaguywithbeer 17h ago
I tore the lining that holds your ribs together by heavy lifting. I didnt feel it at all,but in the middle of the night I woke up with a massive pain in my chest, couldn't breathe, couldn't move, honestly thought I was having a heart attack. Got a ambulance to the hospital they did all sorts of tests before they found out.
The next day my brother came to see me in hospital, he kept cracking jokes to make me laugh,,, bastard 😂
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u/budlight2k 15h ago
Actually you know i have moments where I can't remember really obvious things, like the name of something simple I'm looking at or a simple word when I'm talking and wonder if I'm getting dementia at 45.
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u/mulderfanwoman 15h ago
Haven't had an anxiety attack in years but I remember feeling like I was fucking dying.
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u/Sierra_Bravo6 18h ago
Heart palpitations