Hope you are better soon! I know pneumonia can be brutal. Be sure to let your doctor know if you start to feel worse.

I had it last winter/spring. I had 2 shots plus the oral meds. Get a LOT of rest, and drink fluids. That's about all you can do. Don't be in a hurry to think your well.
Leslie

Yep it take a long time in some cases to kick it.
Stay warm, drink LOTS of fluids, and make Ron wait on you hand and foot for at leat 3 weeks! Bwaaahaha
Hope you feel better soon!

I don't know if this works, but I heard that it makes you feel better... Get a very long, sturdy stick and smack your husband with it. Repeat every four hours.
I'm not sure it will help your pneumonia symptoms, but it might make you feel better.

:-)

Hey nodakgal, (I know I'll catch flak for this) I've been waiting on her hand and foot for over 11 years now. Why would pnuemonia make it any different. I thought about replying on the invisible chores thread but, I don't have time to do that much typing ;-)

Ron
PS I love you, bigbaby.

I have only had bronchitis and it kicked me flat on my back for a week so I can't even image how you feel.....Hope you feel better soon....Stacy

Bedrest is the only cure. I kept my head propped up so I could keep my chest clear.

I've been waiting on her hand and foot for over 11 years now.

Which one of her hands? Which foot? And why haven't you waited on the rest of her, too, instead of just waiting on one hand and one foot?

:-)

Bigbaby...get a stick. (See my previous post.)

Oh man, you guys are so funny. I started laughing and wheezing and coughing! It was worth it. Thanks for your sweet replies!

I especially like the stick remedy!!

Actually, I have a wonderful, thoughtful and helpful hubby, he just doesn't see dirt the same way that I do!

I hope you get to feeling spiffy real soon.. Enjoy watching the snow from the inside as long as you can. I don't enjoy getting out in it in my later years..

Susie

Pneumonia was the sickest I have ever been...hope you feel better soon, and very happy for you that you have help!

Hey! Me too! I've never had pneumonia before, but have had chronic sinutitis and asthma for 30 years.

Ten days ago I was coughing so hard that I went to a doctor here on Maui. At that moment I had no fever. She lent me a nebulizer and gave me a prescription for the albuterol to use in it, plus one for prednisone. (60 mg for three days; 40 for three; twenty for three.)

That night I ran a fever -- back to the office next morning with 101.7. Now I got a prescription for Biactin. Cough continues without producing anything. Call to office results in a cough syrup -- but not the right one as it turned out; needed something stronger (with hydrocodone). Neulizer does zip for me. Back to the MD. Chest X-ray. Diagnosis bacterial pneumonia. Pushed up the tapering prednisone again to 60 mg and added an albuterol inhaler.

Finally this morning I was able to bring up a little of the yuck in my lungs. Light at the end of the tunnel? No, DH comes down with heavy chest cold and is a lump on the sofa -- no fever, just weary.

We go to Honolulu Mar. 1 to catch Mar. 2 flight to Chicago. I still have to pack up stuff in owner's storage before our regular March guests arrive.

Any Get-Well tips gratefully received. (No hitting, though.)

I was hospitalized with it several years ago. I was so sick that I really believed I was going to die.

Rest, rest and rest. I hope you feel better soon.

Ron, you are just the sweetest!

REST is the main thing. I've only had pneumonia once and that was enough for me for forever. I was sickly/weak for about 3 to 4 months after original symptoms subsided. The doctor must have stated at least 3 times that I was not to ever get overly tired,,,,ever!! She also said that I would be susceptible to getting other things so to play the 'keep away' game with people who were sick. I pray you're better VERY soon.

Shirley

I would just love to rest but I just can't quit coughing. As soon as I lay down, even with my head raised, I start coughing until I can't catch my breath. I'm exhausted. If I don't sleep tonight I'm calling the doc again tomorrow.

(((((Chisue))))) I'll keep you in my prayers so you feel better for your trip.

Thanks for all the sympathy from everyone. I don't know why but when I'm really sick I just want to know that someone feels sorry for me! It's a joke between Ron and I. I always say, "don't you feel sorry for me?" When he says yes I feel better!

bigbaby,

Carol

Get lots of sleep and keep well hydrated-juice, water, coffee, sodapop, whatever you like. I've had pneumonia more than once and it really sucks-it lasts forvever and you never have any stamina when you're sick with it. It will get better. One day you will wake up and the wheezing will be gone and you'll feel on top of the world. Good luck and feel better.

Awww...thanks for the hug! Must be why I'm feeling a little better.

Forgot to mention to any of you taking an antibiotic that you should also take a PRO-biotic. I didn't think about it until I had a mouth and throat full of yeast. (Biaxin and other antibiotics don't discriminate; they kill EVERYTHING, including the good stuff.)

BigBaby -- I'd ask for a narcotic cough medicine so you can get some rest -- and something to help get that goop out of your lungs. I even took an Ambien one night -- one of the little ones -- and got five hours' rest.

At least DH seems a little better today. He's off the sofa. LOL

Hope you feel a lot better soon!

I finally slept last night--woohoo! At about 8:30 last night the coughing just got better. This morning I am so sore! The pneumonia is in my right lung. It was weird last night that when I layed on my left side the wheezing kept me awake but if I layed on my right side it was quiet! I have never made so much noise when I breathed. It's kind of scary.

I have had pneumonia several times and I talked to the doctor about being afraid that I would end up like my mother, with COPD and on oxygen. He said that we all have health problems when we get older and even though I'm only 52, lots of people are worse off than me and lots are better, too. I shouldn't compare I guess. And, yes, I smoked but I quit 20 years ago. Both of my parents smoked when I was a kid and I guess it is all adding up.

It's been scary for Ron, too. I feel bad that I get sick and he has to help me out. He's a wonderful nurse and I'm a lucky, wheezing girl!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. DS has managed to give me his cough and snotty nose, and very little voice. Otherwise I feel fine. Wet and rainy here, temps in the low 50's, to drop sharply to the 30's today. Good day for the ducks!