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What Causes Heaviness During Breathing And Numb Abdomen?
Having sudden heavy breathing, follow by tight chest and feel numb around abdomen area and giddy. This repeated several times in an hours. When consult doctor, it was said that having high fever and is much better after drip. Is there any other illness that will also have this symptoms?
Tue, 10 Jan 2017
Hi,
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that your complaints could be related to an airway infection. Fever is a strong argument in favor of this diagnosis. There are not many disorders that can cause this clinical scenario. Other possible diagnosis would be pericarditis, pleuritis and myocarditis. All these are inflammatory or infectious disorders.
Coming to this point, I would recommend performing some tests to investigate for the possible underlying causes:
- a chest X ray study and respiratory function tests
- a resting ECG and a cardiac ultrasound
- some blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, ESR, blood electrolytes, kidney and liver function tests).
You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that your complaints could be related to an airway infection. Fever is a strong argument in favor of this diagnosis. There are not many disorders that can cause this clinical scenario. Other possible diagnosis would be pericarditis, pleuritis and myocarditis. All these are inflammatory or infectious disorders.
Coming to this point, I would recommend performing some tests to investigate for the possible underlying causes:
- a chest X ray study and respiratory function tests
- a resting ECG and a cardiac ultrasound
- some blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, ESR, blood electrolytes, kidney and liver function tests).
You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
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