Good Lord Neetsie!

That's so weird! Please keep resting, so you can get better!!!

Faron

Oh my! That sounds terrible! Take care of yourself!

Oh Neetsie I'm so sorry you're sick - do take care of yourself and don't rush to get back to normal activities too soon - let yourself recuperate.

Please stay aware of all your symptoms. If your temperature starts raising or your chest congestion becomes worse, get to your doctor, Urgent Care or hospital right away! I’m so sorry that this is making your feel so poorly and weak! Please keep us posted as to how you’re doing.

Sorry to hear this. Listen to what your body is telling you, rest, rest rest.

A reminder to get the new pneumonia vaccine Prevnar 13 if you are 50 or older.

Neetsie, please take care of yourself!

Not to be a downer, but earlier in January a number of people at church got a bad chest cold, myself included. One of our parishioners, a dear woman, only 64, got pneumonia and died. It went from a cold to pneumonia to death in about three days.

I had pneumonia when I was, let’s see...48. In June! I was so sick at my DS’ high school graduation. It took me pretty much all summer to get back to normal, partly because we took a trip to the Galapagos, which set me back. Rest, rest, rest! That’s the part I did wrong.

I am so sorry you are going through this. Pneumonia is terrible. Rest and follow doctor's orders. Be super-cautious and hyper-vigilant about seeking medical care.

How frightening! I'm so sorry you're ill and hope the duration is very brief. Take excellent care of yourself!

I've had pneumonia several times but never as extreme as yours. Hang in there and sleep when you need to...don't fight it. Hope you feel better soon!

So sorry to hear you got hit with pneumonia. I just had it too though I had the immunization in 2012. Guess I need the new one too though my doctor never suggested it.

I had pneumonia once about 20 years ago and this time I had same symptoms and thought I might have it again. I went in the day I first had a fever. This was after about 5 days of worsening cough and progressively worse fatigue (no other cold or flu symptoms).

In my case I was diagnosed early and the fever went away about 24 hrs after the first dose of antibiotic but I was still really tired. I didn’t do anything but rest and sleep whenever I felt like it. I felt a little better every day but was off work four days and worked at home the 5th day.

After that I felt pretty good but was almost constantly coughing up stuff or blowing it out my nose. It’s now been about ten days since I took the first antibiotic and the coughing is finally getting better. Yesterday was the first day I felt fully productive.

If you’ve never had it you can’t begin to imagine how much it wipes you out.

My dad's doctor told him that as you get older, the bounce back to healthy gets longer. At that point, he told my dad (recovering from pneumonia) that he needed to allow a week for every day he was sick to get back to normal. I'm not sure if that is a general rule of thumb, but anytime you are sick and too weak to walk, you are going to need time and rest before you are yourself again.

Get the rest your body is telling you it needs -- and if you start to feel worse at all, get back to your doctor. You might need another round of something and it's better to be safe than sorry. Be careful, feel better -- and be glad you have Netflix.

Have Amazon Prime? (not for shopping -- for different video selection. I was just there lining up movies to watch before the Oscars in addition to the ones at the theater.)

Did they swab you for the flu? I hope so. One of my coworkers, 40 ish, flu vaccinated was down for close to 2 weeks with the flu . Your symptoms sound very similar. Take care and like has been said, watch for setbacks.

Gosh, I hope you get your energy back soon. Let the sleep heal you. Take care!

So sorry that you are sick. I agree sleep and rest as your body requires. The more other things you do when your body needs sleep the longer it'll take to heal.

My DD was misdiagnosed with bronchitis at 18 and it turned out to be pneumonia. She was awake and aware the whole time and it hardly took her any time to recover.

When I had pneumonia I was traveling from Spain to Denmark at 15 years old. They couldn't wake me in the airplane when we got to Copenhagen and my aunt had to call the doctor when they got me home to their place. I was very sick and extremely out of it. And I didn't remember much of anything for 3 days. My sister whom I had traveled with in Spain had pneumonia and gave it to me. They called it traveling pneumonia. I have not been that out of it since. You truly have my sympathies.

You sound like a candidate for the pneumonia shot. I had one fairly early in life, 45 because of recurring repository issues including Bronchitis and pneumonia. It has been FABULOUS. I have rarely even had a cold since!!!

Yes, do get the shot. It seems that once you get a bad bout, your body becomes predisposed to get it again and again.

Please take the time to rest and recover. Sounds like such an ordeal! Hope you feel better very soon!

So sorry you have been through this. Rest as much as you need so you don’t need hospital care.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes. I had gotten a pneumonia vaccine a couple years ago but not the new one. I didn't think it was that bad, I was just so tired, but when I couldn't even walk into the clinic I knew i was sick. Chest Xray confirmed pneumonia. I was off work all last week and as a precaution I'm taking this week off too. I just do not want a set back!

It's so hard to not DO anything, but I realize that I'm no longer a spring chicken! I'm having a hard time coming to terms with aging. Not so much the cosmetic changes as the health issues. My Dad died at 61 and as I get closer to 60 I think about that a lot. He had cancer-I don't, but still, it makes you stop and think. Especially when peers start to die young!

So I am taking all the good advice to heart and am doing nothing more than drinking lots and lots and lots of fluid and resting/napping. I have been having very distressing dreams-that is not fun. I just woke up from a long dream of my childhood neighborhood being consumed by fire (I woke up sweating-I think my room was too warm!) but other than that, I might see about doing some scrapbooking-a favorite pastime I haven't worked on a lot lately. Might as well make up some time since I am not working. I did check work email yesterday (a bid no-no) and it made me homesick for work, but I'm NOT going to push myself to go back until I know I can get through a day without coughing or napping!

I hear ya Neetsiepie! I've had the flu for a week and really need to take a week more to fully recover but I have to get back to work and now have all this catch up! If I was expendable at work they would have downsized me by now. As it is I am doing two people's jobs on a part-time salary. No workie, no payee. Hubs is sick too, same deal. And we both got flu and pneumonia vaccines!

I wish I could unlock the secret of repairing my immune system. I get sick every year now, :( I've tried a lot of the standard things. Consistency is tough when you bounce from one thing to the next as a sandwicher.

Just conferred with my internist and got scheduled for my second pneumonia vaccine - Prevnar. Apparently I had Pneumovax in 2012 (when I was hospitalized for surgery) and when I turn 65 I will be due for another Pneumovax. So I guess it's not a once and done situation. I never really paid much attention, just had the vaccine thinking more about hospital acquired pneumonia than community acquired at the time. Now that I've had it again I'm all over getting vaccinated.

Scary, listen to all the good advice here and see a doctor if you're not getting better. I hope that's not the case and some rest will have you recovering.

I just got all the shots I’m likely to need in the next couple of years in Dec. before my insurance changed. I knew that when I was in the hospital ten years ago they had given me a pneumonia vaccine, but never knew which one. They looked it up and told me I needed a Pneumovax booster. Evidently you only get a booster once and you’re done. Then I have to go back this December for the Prevnar. It’s not a replacement—it’s for a different kind of pneumonia.

Hope you are doing better soon. Rock on, sister!

I wish I could unlock the secret of repairing my immune system.

Get flu and pneumonia shots!

I get the shots Terezosa. Two years in a row after getting the shots I still got the flu. I still will get the shots every year, but in my case they did no good. In fact, weeks after I got my flu shot last year I got the flu and then a month later got it again. I was sick for WEEKS and this year, three months after getting my flu shot, I am sick again, and am on week two of exhaustion. I have many friends in the same boat. This is not a post against getting a flu vaccination, only a post that in my particular case, I have been sick every winter for weeks on end despite having gotten a flu shot. And my husband, who also got vaccinated, also has the flu, most likely he got it from me.

Obviously we are getting strains not covered by the vaccine. It is no magic bullet and since I get sick every year, I think my immune system must be weakening with old age, since I rarely got sick before turning 45. In fact I think I went a whole decade without a cold or flu, then it was every time I was on a plane for more than two hours, so about every 5 years since I would visit friends and family in Europe about that often. Then it started to be an every year thing but I broke the cycle by moving to a new state. Now after 5 years here, I am back to my every year sick for weeks trap.

So sorry to hear you are going through this. I have had pneumonia 3 times. The recovery is soooo long. Please take as long as you need, and when you start back to work consider half days first.

I know it's frowned upon for good reasons to forego the flu vaccine. However everyone I know who has had the flu, including a friend who nearly died of kidney failure and didn't recover for a year, has had the flu vaccine. Knock on wood I've never had the flu and never had the vaccine. I will get it if I ever get the flu assuming I don't die from it the first time around. Pneumonia is a different story.

There was a report on the news last night, actually, stating that the flu vaccine was only 38% effective last year. This year's vaccine is around 65% effective. Unfortunately,some people will still get the flu even if they have had the shot, but the odds are certainly better than if they didn't get it.

I have gpttem the flu vaccine every year since I got the flu in 1999. I seem to get thru most years without much of a respiratory infection-I get some but I'm also prone to COPD due to lung issues over the years. But thankfully no flu since then.

I've been off work since last week-I feel like I'm finally turning the corner now. I'll return to work next week, I don't want to chance getting sicker. I've been hearing about so many people being hospitalized with pneumonia this year!

I'm glad to hear you're feeling better! Take your time and don't rush yourself. :)