Pain deserves attention without automatically deserving panic.

Pain is information and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is different from being taken as catastrophe. Panic tends to produce either frantic searching or avoidance, and neither leads to a useful answer. Calm attention leads to a proper look, a professional opinion where needed, and a decision. The signal is worth listening to without letting it dictate the story.

When something hurts, write down what it is, when it happens, and what makes it better or worse. Then get it looked at. Facts settle far more of this than imagination does.