Dancing Around the Four Sides

As long as you had the heart thing checked out then the rest (as horrifying and frustrating as it is) is all manageable. Not that you don't have my profound sympathies on the subject, but I am vastly relieved you're O.K., and the rest is readily fixable, if infuriating to cope with.

I know this particular thing well -- with acid reflux if it hits a particular spot in the oesophagus it causes all the same symptoms as a heart attack: chest and arm pain, shortness of breath, etc. Except it's actually heart burn. Because I have that particular form (very rarely now, my reflux is well contained and so much better that I'm tapering off the Omeprazole) I'm also well aware that I could at some point have real heart attack symptoms and brush them off as "just heartburn" *face palm*. When it was at its' worst it was like having lightening flashes in my chest. Scary shit, yes, even to a certain extent when you know what's causing it.