So, I went to my gastro to figure out why I was having tightness in the chest and hiccups. Had a chest X-ray and it was all clear. Nothing out of the ordinary. And so a couple of days ago, I hand my hand on the base of my neck and started to feel a pulse. I palpated the area around the dip between my collarbones and indeed, there was a pulse, and so I googled out of pure curiosity. I found it interesting, to say the least until I read that it could be an Aortic Aneurysm. And so then I started consisting checking there for a pulse. It's not always there but its there for the most part. Not too obvious but I can feel it slightly when I rest my fingers over the area. I am going to my PCP tomorrow for a follow-up for something completely unrelated but I am afraid that if I bring up my concern, I will be dismissed and laughed at. Haha. Anyone else feel a pulse there?
Back Againnn with Suprasternal Notch Pulse Anxiety
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i think the fact that you're afraid to bring it up to your PCP points to the rational portion of your brain knowing these concerns are sorta silly. out of curiosity or not, googling anything health-related when you suffer from HA is a bad idea. none of us google things out of "pure curiosity." we google things because there's at least a small part of us that worries what we're experiencing is something serious. if we truly thought it was just a normal bodily function, why would we care enough to look?