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What Causes Heaviness In Chest And Breathing Difficulty?

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2014

Question: Hi I have been having a heavy feeling in my upper chest and sometimes finding it difficult to breathe properly especially when laying down

Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (16 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Get examined; investigated

Detailed Answer:
Dear friend,
Welcome to Health Care Magic

You are too young to have Coronary Artery Disease / Again, it is uncommon in women during reproductive age… Pain from the heart is oppressing, in central chest (and left), worse on effort, relieved by rest, may radiate to shoulders and arms, associated with sweating and so on.

However the heaviness needs investigation / also breathless on lying down needs attention.

It could be Anxiety / Anaemia / Asthma / Anomalies of the blood supply to heart (Coronary Arteries)

See an Internist
Get yourself examined
Investigation like ECG / ECHOcardiogram / X-ray chest / blood tests – are necessary – more to exclude and reassure, if not to conclude…

Take care
Good luck

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (21 minutes later)

I do have pain going to my shoulder blades and neck

Answered by Dr. Anantharamakrishnan (51 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Need investigations

Detailed Answer:
Hi

Relax
Heart problem is a distant possibility to be excluded - that is all!
Get examined / investigated – to be reassured,,,

Regards

Note: For further queries related to coronary artery disease and prevention, click here.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar