To be worried I’ve got pneumonia

[Chillieee]

I’ve currently recovering from the flu but I’ve woke up in the last hour and I can not stop coughing. Really loud wheezy cough and I’m coughing up loads of phlegm and my breathing is crackly and noisy. Does this sound like pneumonia? I am finding it easier to breath if I have my mouth open

Before this, I was coughing but not to this extent. I have had chills, aches, nausea and vomiting in the last few days as well as runny nose and headache

Tested for Covid day 4/5 and negative result

It could be. Make a GP appt in the morning. I have had pneumonia 3 times, mildest was a bad very productive cough with relatively little fever, worst I struggled getting out of bed and felt like I was drowning if I lay down flat. Feel better soon.

Yes agree with phoning GP or 111, at work some of our post op patients get pneumonia at times and your symptoms sound similar.

Your symptoms sounds like mine. I have a chest infection. I went to the GP as the crackling and wheezing was relentless.
I didn't have a cold though, just came out of nowhere.
Anyway antibiotics for me and prednisolone, I'm 5 days in now and while a lot better am still wheezing and crackling when laying down specifically on a particular side but feel am on the mend.
Definitely see a GP and get well soon.

I am finding it easier to breath if I have my mouth open

Is that because you've got a snotty nose and physically can't breathe properly through it, or is your nose clear and you still don't feel like you're getting enough air?

It could be pneumonia, but pneumonia isn't the only chest infection that causes that horrible crackly breathing and awful cough. Either way, I would definitely try to get an emergency GP appointment or at the very least, call 111.

I had a chest infection a few years back with a horrendous fever/aches/sweats/chills and the worst cough I've ever had in my life, coughing up phlegm with blood in it, crackling lungs, constant palpitations, the lot. It turned out to be bacterial bronchitis and I had a course of antibiotics, but both 111 and my GP did say that pneumonia is a possibility with those symptoms and that I was right to seek medical attention.

Huge sympathies - I hope it turns out be 'just'(!!) flu but do get proper medical advice. And I hope you feel better soon.