Diagnosed with pneumonia and pleurisy over the phone.

[Imfat]

I've had a terrible cough lasting nearly 7 weeks and having flu.
Started with sharp pain at the bottom of my right side of the rib cage.
Absolute agony so I got a telephone appointment for this morning
thinking that the GP would call me in to listen to my chest.
No she diagnosed me pneumonia and pleurisy over the phone.
She has prescribed antibiotics and told to call her back if no better on Friday.
I asked if she needed to listen to my chest and was told no need she knows what
is wrong with me.
I just hope she is right and I do start to get better.

That’s really odd. It’s possible that oral
antibiotics could be the only treatment needed, but if infection levels are really high you may need IV antibiotics in hospital. The only way to determine that is with a blood test. My dad’s currently on his third hospital stay with pneumonia and this is the diagnostic route which has always landed him in hospital. After discharge there is a follow up with X ray to check the lungs are clear at the end of treatment.