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lung heaviness

by cookie2525, Mar 04, 2008 05:43PM
Tags: lungs
I have had a heaviness in my chest and slight pain when I take deep breathes since I was sick this winter.  Do you think it could be long-lasting pneumonia?  I feel fine otherwise.  Sometimes I get short of breathe when going up stairs but I contribute that to winter laziness.  Seems like I would have other symptoms if I just had a chest cold still
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by bhups1, Mar 09, 2008 12:47AM
Hi, how old are you and are you hypertensive? These symptoms are usually associated with both lung and heart pathology. In cases of bronchitis associated with pleuritis one might get pain in chest during breathing.

Shortness of breath can be due to compromised heart or bronchoconstriction itself. Please get spirometry done, if no pathlogy or signinficant findings are seen, go for ECHO to rule out heart failure.
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