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What Causes Breathlessness While Having Lung Disease?

I am a 59 year old white male with lung disease. Asbestos plaques and now bronchiectasis. Mild emphysema I m told. Here is the problem though, with this diagnosis, what is causing me to have shortness of breath when I walk, excer t (mildly) and cause me to break out in a sweat, get light headed and dizzy, near passing out?
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Thanks for your quetion on HCM.
Since you are a dignosed case of bronchiectasis and chronic bronchitis, your shortness of breath can be explained by these.
1. Both of these are obstructive airway diseases. Which causes bronchospasm and thus lungs are not properly oxygenated.
2. Bothof these can cause structural changes in lung, thus decreasing total lung surface and thus causing poor lung function.
3. Infections are easily occur in diseased lung. This will further hamper lung functions.
So your these diseases makes you breathless.
Better to consult pulmonologist and get done PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to know about ypur lung function.
Start treatment and repeat the PFT and see for improvement.
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What Causes Breathlessness While Having Lung Disease?

Thanks for your quetion on HCM. Since you are a dignosed case of bronchiectasis and chronic bronchitis, your shortness of breath can be explained by these. 1. Both of these are obstructive airway diseases. Which causes bronchospasm and thus lungs are not properly oxygenated. 2. Bothof these can cause structural changes in lung, thus decreasing total lung surface and thus causing poor lung function. 3. Infections are easily occur in diseased lung. This will further hamper lung functions. So your these diseases makes you breathless. Better to consult pulmonologist and get done PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to know about ypur lung function. Start treatment and repeat the PFT and see for improvement.