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Left wrist pain (quite intense) is brief and comes and goes fairly regularly - goes away in about 5 seconds. scared it's a heart attack!
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QUITE UNLIKELY: but if you are concerned, if you are middle aged and have risk factors it wouldn't hurt to get a baseline electrocardiogram and have an exam to get an idea what IS likely.
Answered 2/7/2018
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