What is pulmonary hypertension? Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure related to your lungs. Most commonly, pulmonary hypertension is arises secondary to some other underlying disease like HIV or COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).
Medical symptoms include :
difficulty breathing, shortness of breath – commonly associated with activity or exertion but can be present even with the slightest activity eg just walking across the room. A related medical symptom would include fainting episodes or feelings of dizziness. In severe cases, the difficulty breathing is apparent even at rest
fatigue – the difference here is that this fatigue lasts for a long time ie it doesn’t improve with time unlike the fatigue experienced when you are down with a cold
swelling of the limbs especially around the ankles – this is otherwise known as peripheral oedema. As the heart finds it increasingly difficult to pump against the heightened pressure in the lungs, fluid will start to pool in other areas of the body and the most visible spot is the ankles (due to gravity)
See medical symptoms of other diseases.