[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Pneumonia, anyone had it? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/6/2014 1:42:09 AM EDT
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Got a cold, typical cold, funky throat feel, then head full, then oough from drainage.
This is normally when a cold goes away and I start feeling better. My chest/lungs sound like shit, if I exhale with a bit of force it sounds like the wheezing of a 95 year old smoker. I feel like there is a bunch of shit in my lungs I need to cough up, but I keep trying and ....nothing, still wheezy do I gots the pneumonia? |
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Not sure, there's bacterial and viral pneumonia IIRC.
I think I had viral pneumonia when I was around 6 or 7. I just remember my folks saying that it started out with me getting flu like symptoms, then I was taken to the ER when my temperature rose to 106 or so. Stayed in that hospital for around a week hooked up to an IV. ETA: You know though, you should probably see a doctor anyway... |
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Not sure, there's bacterial and viral pneumonia IIRC. I think I had viral pneumonia when I was around 6 or 7. I just remember my folks saying that it started out with me getting flu like symptoms, then I was taken to the ER when my temperature rose to 106 or so. Stayed in that hospital for around a week hooked up to an IV. ETA: You know though, you should probably see a doctor anyway... Ive got GD, I don't need a fucking docktor |
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Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half No, I can inhale to about 3/4 capacity and it feels like I need to cough violently, and do, but cant clear the flem |
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Quoted: No, I can inhale to about 3/4 capacity and it feels like I need to cough violently, and do, but cant clear the flem Quoted: Quoted: Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half No, I can inhale to about 3/4 capacity and it feels like I need to cough violently, and do, but cant clear the flem |
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Quoted: No, I can inhale to about 3/4 capacity and it feels like I need to cough violently, and do, but cant clear the flem Quoted: Quoted: Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half No, I can inhale to about 3/4 capacity and it feels like I need to cough violently, and do, but cant clear the flem Well that means you probably should go see a doc
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| I had it in January, worst experience ever! Granted I had it in conjunction with the flu, but every time I coughed it felt like I was being punched in the chest. Nice thick brownish mucus being coughed up and just miserable all over. You could have the early on set, I remember my chest was fine for a few days until it started hurting when I coughed. Hit up the doc next chance you get. |
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Ive got GD, I don't need a fucking docktor Quoted:
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Not sure, there's bacterial and viral pneumonia IIRC. I think I had viral pneumonia when I was around 6 or 7. I just remember my folks saying that it started out with me getting flu like symptoms, then I was taken to the ER when my temperature rose to 106 or so. Stayed in that hospital for around a week hooked up to an IV. ETA: You know though, you should probably see a doctor anyway... Ive got GD, I don't need a fucking docktor Sorry - The ARFCOM long-distance chest x-ray machine is temporarily out of service. Seriously, go see a doc. |
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Ive got GD, I don't need a fucking docktor Quoted:
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Not sure, there's bacterial and viral pneumonia IIRC. I think I had viral pneumonia when I was around 6 or 7. I just remember my folks saying that it started out with me getting flu like symptoms, then I was taken to the ER when my temperature rose to 106 or so. Stayed in that hospital for around a week hooked up to an IV. ETA: You know though, you should probably see a doctor anyway... Ive got GD, I don't need a fucking docktor In that case; do you have life insurance? Can I be a beneficiary if so? 
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| The really big bad version you generally get only once, the lesser versions ('walking pneu') can get every year. My big one was really bad. Had the lesser versions at least six times, got so I could recognize it coming on and head it off early with the proper treatment which included two different antibiotics from my MD. |
| OP, although I've never been diagnosed with Pneumonia, I have experienced precisely what you're going through now. Just walking to the bathroom, felt like a 5 mile run. And the noises that were whistling out of my lungs, sounded like a freakin Exorcism. I remember it being so difficult to breathe that I couldn't go to sleep, because I couldn't relax enough. Like another poster mentioned, you should inhale some steam. It helps loosen all the phlegm up, and although temporary (basically, once the steam stops, the relief stops), it can offer some reprieve. Best wishes, not being able to breathe, is for the birds. |
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Don't screw around with, I had it twice in 6 months and nearly died both times. The doctors wanted to know why I didn't get help until my wife had to call an ambulance both times and both times I told them I didn't think it was that bad. Waking up on a respirator the 2nd time in the ER gave me the incentive I needed to start going to the doctor before it got so serious. Also, them telling my wife and mother that I had only a 1 in 5 chance of making it through the night gave me another reason to quit screwing around. I can't put them through that any more. Get your ass to the doctor. |
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Quoted: The really big bad version you generally get only once, the lesser versions ('walking pneu') can get every year. My big one was really bad. Had the lesser versions at least six times, got so I could recognize it coming on and head it off early with the proper treatment which included two different antibiotics from my MD. Besides not being able to breathe the worst is when it first takes hold in your bronchial tubes. You cough and it feels like you're hacking up a sea urchin rolled in ebola flavored oysters.
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If you think you have pneumonia, get your neckbearded ass to the hospital. I'm not kidding. The shit killed my mother when she was 36. I had the atypical version, and my life was hell for a couple weeks. I could barely walk without gasping for air of the first few days.
Btw, mom only had it for two weeks before it killed her. I was 5. You got kids? Go to hospital for them. |
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Yes.
Trouble getting my breath. Coughing. Coughed so much/so hard I pulled something in my back. Coughing made me dizzy/light headed. Every now and then I'd cough up what looked like about 1/2 cup of liquid stuff. Filled my plate up one morning at breakfast and sprayed it all over my shirt, pants, steering wheel, dash, etc. in the truck on the way to work the next morning. Finally went to the doctor who did some tests, told me I had pneumonia, sent me to the drug store with a list of prescriptions and then home for a week and half. Told me if it wasn't better in a few days, come back to see him. |
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Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half This!!! Go see a doctor as soon as you feel like you cannot fully inhale or exhale... Pneumonia is serious shit man, don't fuck around with it. It took me a full 6 months to really feel like myself again. |
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I broke two ribs and couldn't/didn't breathe deep enough and got fluid in my lungs. Not fun. Yep. I dislocated 3 ribs off the sternum and broke 2 from the coughing... Are you at the Dr's office yet? Don't be fucking stupid. Doctor tomorrow (CVS and Walgreens have urgent care centers)... |
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Yep. I dislocated 3 ribs off the sternum and broke 2 from the coughing... Are you at the Dr's office yet? Don't be fucking stupid. Doctor tomorrow (CVS and Walgreens have urgent care centers)... Quoted:
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I broke two ribs and couldn't/didn't breathe deep enough and got fluid in my lungs. Not fun. Yep. I dislocated 3 ribs off the sternum and broke 2 from the coughing... Are you at the Dr's office yet? Don't be fucking stupid. Doctor tomorrow (CVS and Walgreens have urgent care centers)... This. Most likely it'll take antibiotics. Or....DIBS!!!! 
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| I had it last year at Halloween. Felt like I had the flu, throwing up, fever, aches cold sweats and major fever. Its probably the worst I ever felt in my life but strangely enough I didn't have a cough or anything and my lungs didn't bother me at all. I had to get a few shots, two IV bags and a bunch of motrin and I was good as new in a few days. |
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Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half *BINGO* I had it once while out of town on a job. When you get to the ER desk and they ask what you are there for, tell them you are having trouble breathing. You will immediately be wheeled to the back, bypassing all the FSA in the lobby. |
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I've had it 3 times.
Always, always make the doctor take an x-ray. I was so dehydrated the 2nd time I had it, they couldn't hear anything wrong in the ER and told me I was ok. I requested a x-ray, where they discovered the double pneumonia. Single pneumonia, you can beat if at home, double pneumonia-you better be in the hospital, it can kill you. |
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Always, always make the doctor take an x-ray. I was so dehydrated the 2nd time I had it, they couldn't hear anything wrong in the ER and told me I was ok. I requested a x-ray, where they discovered the double pneumonia. Had the same thing happen to me. They were ready to send me home from the ER, until the chest X-Rays came back - Put me in the hospital for several days instead. OP - You need to see a doc about this. |
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Do you feel like you can take full deep breaths? Completely fill your lungs with air? Both times I had pneumonia I absolutely could not take full deep breaths. It felt like my lung capacity was cut in half this for me too, plus I had a 103 temp and a 210bpm heart rate when I walked into the ER. That earned me a room in record time, lmao. J- |
| Was in the hospital as a kid for a month with it. Missed Christmas that year because of it. Forty-eight years late I came down with it again and almost died from it. One month hospitalized on IV bags of a then experimental antibiotic called Levequin. It was a bad enough case that after four days in that hospital bed I woke up and the doctor was telling my wife "We can't do anything else for him at this point. The pulmonary specialty hospital says they can't do anything more than we're doing. If he doesn't start responding to the antibiotics soon, we're going to lose him." |