Always Out of Breath When Exercising? You Might Have Dyspnea

Always Out of Breath When Exercising? You Might Have Dyspnea
If you find yourself gasping for air while exercising, you could be out of shape… or it could be a sign of something more serious.

     If you have chronic shortness of breath while exerting yourself or exercising, it could be a condition called dyspnea.

What causes it?

Again Dyspnea is a shortness of breath on exertion. It can be driven by a lot of things. A lot of the time it's due to stiff hearts or diastolic dysfunction. Other times it's due to chronic lung disease; asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, etc. Obesity in particular can also contribute to it. Then sometimes, of course, it can be due to deconditioning.

However, most of the time we see a combination. People have problems with their heart and problems with their lungs and then become deconditioned, and then their shortness of breath begets more shortness of breath and begets more dyspnea. Therefore, in dyspnea when you have the chronic shortness of breath in the setting with exertion, there will be knock-on effects on your heart, on your lungs, on your waist, and also, incidentally actually, on your mood as well.

So it may be all of these things tie together . Dyspnea is more of a symptom.

It's what people describe or what they complain of. Ironing it out is not difficult, but it just takes time or takes testing to figure out what the cause is.

We need to try and rule out the things that will shorten our length of life, like coronary artery disease, valvular disease, pulmonary hypertension, and then once they have been ruled out then we re-focus on improving the quality of our life so that we are able to do more.

If your doctor does not use this approach here in the Philippines then perhaps it is best to take more control of your health care by requesting tests and actively guiding your doctor . It may seem a strange approach but this is YOUR health and YOUR quality of life that hangs in the balance…

You can use your knowledge to team with your doctor so that you will feel years younger and active again..