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What Causes Suffocation And Cough While Sleeping?

More and more often I m waking up at night gasping for air like I m suffocating and coughing and wheezing a lot, it eventually goes away but takes a while but only if I remain upright, I have to sleep sitting up a bit or it s worse but I m left for a while with a tired heavy feeling in my chest, what could this be, oh and sometime my heart feels like it s beating fast
Tue, 28 Oct 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM.
I want to ask you few questions first.
1. Are you obese?
2. Are you having diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart disease?
3. Are you having morning headache, sleepiness, tiredness?
4. Are you smoker
Night time gasping spells, suffocation, cough seen in
1. Obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA)
2. Cardiac causes
3. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases).
So better to consult sleep specialist and get done sleep study (polysomnography). This will help in diagnosis of above mentioned cause. Treatment of all are totally different. So you need to diagnose first.
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What Causes Suffocation And Cough While Sleeping?

Thanks for your question on HCM. I want to ask you few questions first. 1. Are you obese? 2. Are you having diabetes, hypertension and ischemic heart disease? 3. Are you having morning headache, sleepiness, tiredness? 4. Are you smoker Night time gasping spells, suffocation, cough seen in 1. Obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA) 2. Cardiac causes 3. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases). So better to consult sleep specialist and get done sleep study (polysomnography). This will help in diagnosis of above mentioned cause. Treatment of all are totally different. So you need to diagnose first.