Chest tightness wheezing
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You can have shortness of breath, coughing, chest tightness or wheezing all at once or if mildly symptomatic your only symptom might be some chest tightness or a cough. For me, I only make wheezing sounds when I'm in a rather bad state, where as most people would make wheezing sounds way sooner. Hence why asthma is considered a variable disease. If your symptoms resolve while on the inhaler, it is certainly indicative of asthma.
I had what started out as a cold, then a lingering cough and was started on antibiotics during which I developed chest tightness, shortness of breath and wheezing. I was diagnosed with asthmatic bronchitis, given a breathing treatment and sent home with a prescription for an albuterol inhaler.
My doctor never really explained except to say that I had bronchitis which turned into asthmatic bronchitis. I do not have a history of asthma. So what exactly is asthmatic bronchitis?
Sunday- I was fine
Monday- felt chest tightness some wheezing took inhaler
Tuesday-Started feeling chest tightness but no wheezing by sternum and every time I would cough up from chest clear to white thin mucous I felt my chest get colder. It is Friday and still has cold sensation in chest near sternum. No fever, no wheezing, but is have noticed if I speak too long I need to kind of catch my breath a little also suffer from acid reflux so I am thinking it may be that as well.
I had a CABG in 2000. A couple of months ago I felt tightness in the chest and the feeling was as if a belt has been tied on my chest which was restricting me to inhale. I did a CT Angio which revealed that out of three (3) grafts, oneof my arteries has blocked, however my Cardiologist over-ruled this tightness as related to a Cardiac problem. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I went for Echocardiography which turned out to be good as well.
It started off as a minor sore throat, nothing that really bothered me and a bit of a stuffy nose. Within two days both of those were replaced with chest congestion, tightness, and a wet cough producing green phlegm. Now its been about 5 days of wheezing and this cough i can feel the congestion deep down in my lungs. When i breathe i can feel the phlegm and mucus and i wheeze when i exhale. It is usually worse at night before i go to sleep. Im not quite sure If i should go see my doctor.
however, in the past week, i have noticed a new sensation of tightening/constricting of my upper chest / trachea. I dont know if this is possible, but it doesnt feel like the same sensation i get from wheezing, however it is difficult to move air and has resulted in a dry annoying cough. There is also the constant sensation of having a tickle in the back of my throat. This also hasn't been resolved with the use of albuerol, which also leads me to believe that it is not my asthma acting up.
m asking this because I have GERD without these symptoms, But I have chest pain and tightness behind breastbone, sometimes shortness of breath, because of hiatal hernia and I'm actually scared I might also have Asthma. I've been like this for 3 years now. Did spirometry almost 2 yearts ago but nothing abnormal.
My breathing seems to have improved slightly (i think) but the tightness in my chest is still there most of the time. I will be returning to my doctor in 1 week to discuss the results and hopefully complete further testing. 1) Is this asthma or COPD? 2) how long should it take for my body to respond to this medication?
Whereas in asthma you would feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, cough and wheezing. Not necessarily that you will experience all of those symptoms at once. You can google it and see if it is anything like what you are experiencing. If it is bothersome, you could go and see your doctor about it.
I don't really know what to say, except that I noticed that she is taking medications for asthma, and you didn't mention whether she has been diagnosed with it. She could have cough variant asthma, where no wheezing is evident. I have asthma and I don't make wheezing sounds till I'm rather bad. It drives my family doctor nuts because I don't present the typical way that most other asthmatics do. She can't tell by listening to my lungs as to how my asthma is doing.
I was diagnosed with asthma about half a year ago, started getting symptoms 8 or 9 months ago, breathlessness, chest tightness, tiny bit of wheezing etc. Doctors gave me an inhaler, Ventolin, then gave me a steroid inhaler later. The probable cause for my asthma is anxiety - I have anxiety problems and have trouble relaxing/ irrationally get anxious.
It was difficult to breathe and there was tightness in my chest. I went to the doctor and was put on a nebulizer and diagnosed with allergies and acute bronchospasm. I was prescribed Flonase, Claritin, and an Albuterol inhaler to use when needed.
The symptoms went away for a few days (it seemed like after the first roach treatment) but now they are back. I noticed that they seemed to get better once they sprayed for roaches, but I also woke up with what seemed like dirt in my nostrils.
just felt shortness of breath (very little) and felt crappy and had tightness of the chest…as well as…the very odd cough only when I smoked…...
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