....
2007-06-28 10:10:28 · 12 answers · asked by Nicolas R 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
You may be suffering from pulmonary hypertension. That means you have high blood pressure in the arteries to your lungs. The blood vessels that supply the lungs constrict and their walls thicken, so they can't carry as much blood. As in a kinked garden hose, pressure builds up and backs up. The heart works harder, trying to force the blood through. If the pressure is high enough, eventually the heart can't keep up, and less blood can circulate through the lungs to pick up oxygen. Patients then become tired, dizzy and short of breath.
My 50 yo husband has *secondary* pulmonary hypertension, due to another disease process. I took him to the Emergency Room a while back due to chest pain and shortness of breath. When I advised the ER doctor that he had pulmonary hypertension, they questioned him extensively about cocaine use. I finally pulled the dr. aside and asked him why he kept questioning my husband about drug use, as he does not do street drugs. Doctor said that pulmonary hypertension is sometimes seen in cocaine and crack users. Since we were in a town with a huge crack problem, doc said they automatically ask about drug use, specifically cocaine use, when dealing with someone with breathing troubles.
When an underlying cause for high blood pressure in the lungs can't be found, the condition is called primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). But although the exact cause of PPH isn't known, scientists believe that most people who develop the disorder are especially sensitive to substances that cause the blood vessels to constrict. Cocaine and the diet drug fenfluramine (fen-phen), which was withdrawn from the market in 1997, are two of the substances that may contribute to PPH in some people.
Other people with PPH have an inherited predisposition for the disease. In these people, pulmonary hypertension is triggered by another medical condition such as chronic liver disease (cirrhosis), AIDS, sickle cell anemia, scleroderma and lupus.
2007-06-29 01:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by ~RedBird~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would go to a doctor to get your lungs checked and stop doing crack.
2007-06-28 10:16:51 · answer #2 · answered by E S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless you stop what you do is suffer heart problems, organ problems (including your lungs), loose your mind slowly and all of this can be very painful distressing and downright horrible - then if you are lucky you die!
You know it - but do you care?
2007-06-28 10:16:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You Joker you I don't think your lungs hurt I think your wallet hurts and your friends and family hurt because you steal from them to support your habit. Get into rehab run do not walk do not pass go do nut collect 200 when you pass go....
2007-06-28 10:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Um...that seems pretty obvious to me. Get help! Stop doing crack. It is killing you!
2007-06-28 10:13:13 · answer #5 · answered by Amy C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one should dignify this question by even answering you. You are lucky to be alive, let alone having lung pain. Get help.....NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-06-28 10:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by Kenneth F 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
get off the crack and try pot lol
2007-06-28 10:17:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do more crack... you won't care anymore.
2007-06-28 10:12:55 · answer #8 · answered by Dan 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Buy a scooter.
2007-06-28 10:18:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
try coke numbs everything.
2007-06-28 10:14:23 · answer #10 · answered by Loco 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋