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What are the chances of thinking you have myocarditis after reading alarming stuff on facebook?

I had chest pains a couple weeks after my second shot, had an EKG and asked about this. No myocarditis. I had torn a rib. Can you imagine how many people have phantom pains that don't get an EKG, but post to "confirm" they had symptoms? It's bad enough trying to get all these people to just get a goddamn vaccine without scaring them with shit that has basically no chance of happening, has no major long-term consequences if it does happen, and that practically everyone who eats a subway sandwich will have symptoms of.



I stopped looking up my "medical" symptoms online. Every time I Google something I go to curious to cancer.

The internet is not good for hypochondriacs.


Same, same here. It's going to take the vax-deniers about a decade to get to where they can shrug it off, though. If ever.


You're not doing it right. Despite this meme, online info makes self-diagnosis much easier.

The hard part is matching symptoms with your health history and eliminating the improbable/impossible causes/diseases. Which is really hard, even for trained doctors.


eh, I didn't mention I got nose bleeds from 12-48 hours after the second shot. Never had them before in my life.

I did look it up. I didn't like what I saw. But I decided to just ignore that information, take my goddamn vax status and go to a fucking bar.

[edit] I'm still here.


Ha, I have a similar story with strage red spots appearing on my back the day after vacciantion. Turns out it was from sitting on a bench.




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