Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ?  Please type your query here...  Well since i turned 51 last fall, i have been told i have asthma.  i went to the lung dortor yesterday, he referred me to a heart doctor cause my heart does not fully relax.  I ask what he thought was going on and he said that he was not a heart doctor.  I hae my appointment this coming monday
Hello, Welcome and thanks for your query. Breathlessness can be caused by weakness of the heart and hence it is not pumping the blood out well. This causes back pressure into the lungs and causes breathless and is called cardiac asthma. The treatment is different from the usual asthma which is due to the narrowing of air passages.