Health problems

What can it cause shorth breath because i am smoker and iam worrying.can it be lungs cancer.i am a 44 years old.I take alot of coffee.Sometimes have some chest pain.

[puppiov]

Hi, This sounds very serious, mainly because of the chest pain.  The shortness of breath and chest pain could be from coronary heart disease, which is a build-up of plaque in your arteries. Coronary artery disease develops as a result of damage to the blood vessels caused by smoking. The most common symptoms of coronary artery disease include chest pain that feels like pressure or squeezing and shortness of breath. This also could potentially be the initial signs of a heart attack. Heart attacks are the number 1 killer of women.  

Make an appointment and go to your doctor immediately and have all of the appropriate tests done.  Again, this is very serious. A relative of mine whom was a previous smoker had the same symptoms and she went to the doctor and they said that she was very close to having a heart attack.  


Goodluck...

[caregiver222]

Smoking causes hundreds of thousands of microscopic particles to be deposited within the lungs. Some are cleared naturally, but others become encapsulated. Fibrous tissue grows around the encapsulated particles.  As time goes on the area available for transfer of oxygen decreases, and shortness of breath develops. This put strain on the muscles and often causes pleuritic pain. This development mandates an immediate end to smoking.  Needless to say you also need an evaluation by a pulmonary specialist, as well as a cardiologist. It may be cancer or a cardiac problem, but the chances are it is not. Only a proper evaluation will determine this. There are medications available that will open up the alveoli and permit normal breathing, but the important factor is to end the smoking at once.

[Brandywinne]

get a chest xray for starters see a lung dr. your going to get emphsyma for sure if you keep smoking you need to quit or it will quit you no joke.