I started having allergies to scents ( perfumes, air fresheners with severe reactions like respiratory congestion, copious whitish secretions that severely affected my health just and it was an uphill battle or years seeing almost no end to the distress, as my environment robbed me of my health. A doctor prescribed Advair DIskus and Albuterol but it worsened the tightness in my chest. I was also having constant nasal drip and eventually I felt like my airway has narrowed and hardened. I have bronchial asthma as a child , probably from playing with or in a place with lots of sawdust. I got over it until it s triggered very occasionally by fine dust until my workplace installed fresheners that were respiratory irritants, mostly for me, as I was the one who really had bad chronic reactions/ cough, wheezing, congestion from it. I have chronic shortness of breath especially when I lie down, I even have difficulty swallowing at times. I am a bit better now after years ( about 6 years) of struggling to build up my health, the residual congestion, the inability to sleep flat w/o suffering from shortness of breath, the post-nasal drip, wheeze, linger just because I am still in that kind of environment at a lesser degree. A few months back, I felt my heart was in serious trouble, squeezing tightly and painfully almost with every beat, it was truly disconcerting. then my legs got swollen and I thought that was only from standing but it turned out to be water retention, I was actually suffering from cardiac overload. I benefited from fluid restriction, eventually. I now have to take medication to control hypertension as that s one thing that is very hard to control; I ve stopped monitoring my BP altogether, as it became pointless to wean myself off it, for the time being. I now begin to wonder, if there is a correlation or connection with my cardiac status and my post-nasal drip. I feel like my heart is a stone sometimes, especially when I am lying down. It also occasionally lurches, literally so to speak, more often w/o pain, as if plainly complaining. Should I see a cardiologist? An ENT specialist?