Intro to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension is known as high blood pressure to your lung arteries. As of today, there is no cure but with proper medication when diagnosed in its early stage it could provide quality life. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension is becoming well known and with proper testing these days a misdiagnose is not as common as before. In earlier years, it was tough to diagnose the illness was masked by other symptoms and obviously not treated because it wasn’t identifiable like in todays stages. People back in the days due to misdiagnosis lead them to die or the illness was so advanced that would lead to eventually dying.

If you feel that you have shortness of breathe, fatigue when walking short distances or feel light headed when walking or taking stairs, have feet swollen or belly bloated or skin is like a blue in color. I would suggest pushing your primary doctor to properly arrange blood work, echocardiogram and right heart catheterization. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension is a disease that can change your life forever but the earlier you detect it and specially at a younger age the better it is to get back on your feet.

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension has been taking a lot of lives from all ages. Many people or not aware of the disease and some haven’t heard of it. I believe that the more we share and comment and show awareness the better it would be for the world to know and get properly diagnosed. In todays time and age the people that have been diagnosed in early stages have a better chance to live quality life. Wouldn’t you like to know what you really have instead of the results being false stating “It looks like you have Asthma” “It looks like you have this or maybe that” I advise you definitely to get properly diagnosed and speak to your primary physician.