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What Causes Shortness Of Breath Along With Fatigue And Dizziness?
My mother is 84 years old. She has been having problems for months with getting spells where she feels a flush and gets a little short of breath, and must sit down or lie down immediately. Once she is sitting down or lying down, she feels better. She started to slowly gain her strength and stamina, but then became sick with a cold virus, and now she is doing worse than ever with re-experiencing the symptoms of weakness, shakiness, out of balance. What are some of the top things we should be looking into? We had here in Emergency / hospital a few months ago where they checked her blood and heart, and found all okay and released her. Then she went to her own Geriatrics doctor who proceeded to ask questions, fill out a computer screen, and had no idea what is causing this, so basically, that was that. The geriatrics doctor has done no further follow up, questions, research or anything to try to understand this better. But my mom - and us, her family -- are at a loss on how to help her. I can t believe that suddenly she became sick and we should all just sit around and watch with no ideas on what to follow up on. Can you help give us clues?
Fri, 19 Jan 2018
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shortness of breath with dizziness and breathing difficulty is acommon problem of old age and have some causes nedd for investigations
anemia is one of the most important causes as it will affect metabolism so causes breathing difficulty and increase fatigue and diazziness and should do complete blood count todiagnose anemia.........other factor is chest infection or asthma or allergy as these causes bronchalveolaroconstriction and shortness of breathing and she will feel tightness of chest with ...and will feel that also if you smell any odour.........some times there is cardiac problems and myococrdial infarction may cause that and you need to do investigation as ecg test to role that out.....severe excersise also that causes her dizziness and fatigue with short breath in this age considered main cause also............psychological troubles and stress and anxiety have great role in these symptoms so try to avoid stress
wish your mom healthy life
shortness of breath with dizziness and breathing difficulty is acommon problem of old age and have some causes nedd for investigations
anemia is one of the most important causes as it will affect metabolism so causes breathing difficulty and increase fatigue and diazziness and should do complete blood count todiagnose anemia.........other factor is chest infection or asthma or allergy as these causes bronchalveolaroconstriction and shortness of breathing and she will feel tightness of chest with ...and will feel that also if you smell any odour.........some times there is cardiac problems and myococrdial infarction may cause that and you need to do investigation as ecg test to role that out.....severe excersise also that causes her dizziness and fatigue with short breath in this age considered main cause also............psychological troubles and stress and anxiety have great role in these symptoms so try to avoid stress
wish your mom healthy life
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