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Are these possible sympthoms (indicators) of having Congestive Heart Failure?

Sorry this is so lengthy, but I thought it best to explain everything that's going on to give you the best understanding and information I can.  It was recently thought that I had developed Congestive Heart Failure.  I had been sick for over a week  (Diagnosed originally as Bronchitis and Sinusitis) and had shown no signs of improvement after the first round of anti-biotics and medications. I was still coughing up a lot of junk.  I went back to Urgent Care and they gave me a couple of breathing treatments, one was a nebulizer, the other was like an alcohol breath test like I see on TV (I had to take a deep breath and blow out for a few seconds). They took an additional set of chest/lung x-rays.  A little while later they came to tell me they were sending me to the emergency room because they thought my heart was enlarged (bigger than its normally supposed to be), high blood pressure, and pneumonia.  They had thought it was due to my heart having to work extra hard, my lungs were starting to fill with the fluid that I had been coughing up for the last week.  At the ER, they found no congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, or  pneumonia.  Their diagnoses was Bronchitis and Sinusitis.  My question is; even though nothing was found at the ER, it made me think of how I have been feeling for well over a year now, and I wonder if these are indeed possible symptoms (indicators) of having Congestive Heart Failure.  These are the most prevalent symptoms I have:
1.  Every morning after I get up,  I cough and spit for at least 30-45 minutes to get the fluids (feel like they are in my lungs) out of me.  This happens every morning when I get up.
2.  Nearly every time I cough, I feel as if I am going to pass out (things in my side vision start to get dark & fuzzy & I feel off balance & like I'm going to pass out)

That's about it.  I wish I had thought to ask the Dr at Urgent Care these things when I was there the other day.  Since I found this forum, I thought I'd ask here.

Thank you for taking the time to read my question.  I appreciate it.  Have a great day!
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Hello, I would like to give you some input if you don't mind I am not a doctor but I've had the similar issue. It turns out a lot of my chest mucus was from acid reflux I don't know how the to correlate but it did and I also have severe sinusitis with mucosal thickening according to my last CT scan of my head. I also in the mornings used to cough up a lot of junk although my cough is more dry now. Typically congestive heart failure cough can be wet or dry but is oftentimes wet with a frothy mucus. I'm assuming the test you did was one while you exhaled very hard in a breathalyzer style machine? That's called a spirometry test and that's to find out if you have any type of COPD/Emphysema, that is honestly the best test for lung function. It might be a good idea to see about getting a CT scan on your chest rather than an x-ray. Try some over-the-counter acid reflux medicines such as Prilosec and see if that helps any. And possibly try some Mucinex  as far as I know you are able to take the two  together but I would look into that further  because I would hate to give you bad advice. Just letting you know I have done so myself  and I was okay. Also take into consideration your environment animals, dust, dander all of these things can be irritants and while sleeping you're not breathing as deeply as you normally would while awake so shallow breathing could be the culprit to allowing all of this gunk to clog up your chest. Hope all is well
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Sorry for all the misspellings and typos I am using my phone and talk to text is not working very well apparently lol.
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