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What Causes Excessive Sweating And Shortness Of Breath While Having High Blood Pressure?

My husband is 65 years old and has high blood pressure & acid reflux, which he takes medicine for. For the past 2 weeks or so he's ben waking up around 3:00 a.m. soaking wet. He's not short of breath or have any other problems that he's aware of. Is this something we need to be concerned about?
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Thanks for contacting with your health concern and after reviewing your history I'm of the following opinion:

1. It could be PND [paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea] or pulmonary edema [PE] or congestive cardiac failure [CCF] for which he should check/consult with his cardiologist for thorough history, physical examination, and relevant laboratory [complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, HIV test as routine, thyroid and blood sugar level] and radiology study [chest x-ray].

2. As GERD [reflux disease] is associated with night sweat giving a trial course of antihistamines with certain lifestyle changes [head elevation at night] will exclude the same

3. In addition to above one must exclude other causes of night sweat like: lymphoma,leukemia,lung abscess,fungal infection.
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What Causes Excessive Sweating And Shortness Of Breath While Having High Blood Pressure?

** Thanks for contacting with your health concern and after reviewing your history I m of the following opinion: 1. It could be PND [paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea] or pulmonary edema [PE] or congestive cardiac failure [CCF] for which he should check/consult with his cardiologist for thorough history, physical examination, and relevant laboratory [complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, HIV test as routine, thyroid and blood sugar level] and radiology study [chest x-ray]. 2. As GERD [reflux disease] is associated with night sweat giving a trial course of antihistamines with certain lifestyle changes [head elevation at night] will exclude the same 3. In addition to above one must exclude other causes of night sweat like: lymphoma,leukemia,lung abscess,fungal infection.