You experience unexplained weight loss, vomiting, or difficulty breathing alongside the pain. 4. Diagnosis and Management
The nurse let go of his hand. She stepped back. She felt her own adrenal glands—two tiny, ancient organs—flutter like caged birds. And for the first time in her life, she understood that fear was not a weakness. It was a signal. A warning. A gift from every frightened thing that had ever survived.
: You may feel discomfort in the throat or deep in the chest behind the breastbone (retrosternal pain).