Chest tightness during sleep

Sleeping is a means for the human body to restore its mental state, and it is also an important period to speed up the body's metabolism. If a person sleeps until dawn, it means that his sleep quality is very good. But I don’t know if you have ever experienced chest tightness during sleep. This will greatly affect a person’s normal sleep. So what causes this phenomenon of chest tightness during sleep?

1. What causes chest tightness during sleep?

Nocturnal paroxysmal dyspnea and orthopnea are typical symptoms of cor pulmonale, indicating that there may be problems with the heart. It is recommended to go to the hospital's cardiology or respiratory department for a systematic examination and active treatment as soon as possible.

2. What to do if you feel chest tightness during sleep

You have chest tightness and mild dyspnea when lying flat. If it gets better after sitting up, you should be careful to rule out the possibility of cardiac chest tightness caused by heart failure.

Organic chest tightness is more common in patients with cardiopulmonary diseases. When heart disease occurs with heart failure, symptoms of chest tightness and difficulty breathing appear due to pulmonary congestion. In the early stages of heart failure, when lying flat, pulmonary congestion worsens, causing chest tightness and difficulty breathing, which improve after sitting up.

In addition, chest tightness can also be a manifestation of myocardial ischemia in coronary heart disease. Pulmonary chest tightness is seen in bronchial asthma, pleural effusion, etc.

Chest tightness caused by neurological functional reasons is most commonly caused by cardiovascular dysfunction. Patients feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, and subjectively feel that there is not enough air and breathing difficulties. They often breathe like sighs and feel comfortable after exhaling a long breath. Sometimes they are also accompanied by palpitations, stabbing pain in the precordial area, as well as neurological symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, confusion, panic, anxiety, sweating, and insomnia. Most of the patients are young women with obvious subjective symptoms, but no organic lesions were found in electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound, chest X-ray examination, etc. You can do an electrocardiogram, cardiac B-ultrasound, chest X-ray examination, etc. If no abnormalities are found during the examination, most of the symptoms are neurological functional symptoms.