What does it mean when you have a shortness of breath and it's hard to breath? ok, my chest feels heavy and it's kinda hard to breath it first started yesterday with weeziing a few hours after i went swimming.

Hello. : Hello. I can't diagnose your symptoms. However, if you have been exercising and develop chest tightness and wheezing, you could have some exercise induced reactive airway disease. If you have a little cold or virus, this could also be the cause. It sounds like a one time occurence. However, if this continues, you should see your doctor to ensure that you don't have asthma. Now if you are an older person and you have chest heaviness and difficulty breathing, than you could be having a cardiac event. Your wheezing suggest lung issues but i also included some heart attack info. (chest pain, tightness, squeezing or fullness is the most common presentation. However the pain can also present in the upper back, the upper middle abdomen, jaw, head, teeth or in the arms (left more than right). One could have nausea, vomiting or it could feel like indigestion or heartburn. Feeling short of breath, sweating and just feeling out of sorts can also occur. About a fourth of people have no significant symptoms during a heart attack.) take care.

Generally : Generally dyspnea (or shortness of breath) can be caused by multitude of problems and discsusion of each of this is beyond the scope of this qa session. There are host of heart, and lung diseases along with other issues like anemia, deconditioning, obesity mental makeup etc can casuse dyspnea. Without knowing much history from you or examining you, it appears that you may have extrinsic asthma, or reactive airway disease worsened by cholrine in the pool water. Pft, cxr are initial diagnostic tests, with expert interpretations then need treatment or prevention accordingly.... Ska, .