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Seriously, it's never a bad idea to have a check-in with your doctor, but this is totally normal. Our brains are pattern-matching machines that try to make coherent sense of our sensory input, and do so overzealously. After all, we evolved this way because it's better for survival to mistakenly hear a lion in the brush than to ignore the sounds of a lion that's really there. That's why we see a face in the moon, and Jesus on slices of toast.
It's also the phenomenon behind those ghost-hunting shows. They put a recording device in an empty building, and our brains pick out "voices" from random static that it records.
It's called auditory pareidolia, and here's an article about it.
Assuming medical visits are free and your doctor cannot make mistakes.
I knew a woman who went in for a colonoscopy, and then had a cascade of complications resulting from poor skill and bad decisions. She never left the hospital. She died in there, because the medical staff sucked at their jobs.
Well, if a neurologist orders a colonoscopy, the OP has big problems! Joking aside, sorry about your acquaintance, that stinks. In any case, "never hurts to" is a figure of speech, at least in my part of the world, which roughly implies, "you could do that, but in my estimation, it won't help."