AIBU to see the GP about chest symptoms after pneumonia?

[Coughingcoughing]

I had pneumonia over Christmas and was told twice by doctors before I got really unwell that it was a cold! I had two weeks of antibiotics and was off work for a really really long time.

for the last week I have been dog tired, body aches keeping me up at night, vomiting intermittently, and coughing up green thick phlegm (gross picture attached). My chest is burning up and I feel like I could sleep all day. It’s not hay fever or a cold, it’s just on my chest,

im really cautious because after having the pneumonia I never want to be that unwell again! But my partner is saying I’d been unreasonable to go the doctor because I have no temperature (I didn’t have a temperature when I had pneumonia though). Aibu to go the doctors, am I being over cautious?

FFS, coughing that up alone warrants a trip to the GP.

Don't be a martyr, ignore your partner.

Go to the Dr's honestly your partner is an idiot ! Not everything comes with a "fever",

My stepdad has lung issues from an illness he is on the 2 week antibiotic treatment, when symptoms start.

I feel like I’m being a hypochondriac but I really don’t want to get sick like I was over Christmas. I don’t feel as bad but the symptoms feel very similar, with the aches and the pains in my chest

Ring the GP today, you need an appt asap

Just go before you get worse, phone them now you might get an appointment today, has your partner been drip dripping into your ear about not bothering Dr's?

I got asthma after a severe pneumonia, type of asthma that is non-allergy related. Without proper meds I would get infections like this often. Sometimes even with meds. I was given extra meds (prednisolone tablets and salbutamol inhaler to open up my lungs so my regular nebuliser worked better) to resolve these infections.

In short: see a GP!

I once delayed going to hospital with difficulty breathing. When the GP I saw asked why I hadn’t gone to hospital and I said I would have gone if I stopped breathing. His reply was ‘if you’ve stopped breathing the horse has passed’.

Don’t mess about with lungs. Go to the doctors

I’d say it’s likely the pneumonia has returned, so yes, I’d see the GP.

That said, it can take a really long time to recover. I’ve had pneumonia many times, in my 20s really badly and was in hospital on oxygen for 4 days. It took me 6 months after to start to feel anything close to normal again. And I’d been really healthy and active before that.

I've had pneumonia a few times op and felt terrible each time, especially the first, but didn't have a temperature either time. Get back to the doctor's/walk in service today and Insistb on a chest x-ray.

No appointments left at the doctors today, despite waiting on the phone, agghhh.

I just feel like I’m being dramatic because I don’t feel nearly as bad as when I had pneumonia but I just know my body doesn’t feel right and is struggling!

Call 111. They can organise GP appointments. You need to be seen, do not take no for an answer.

Similar happened to me, I didnt want to "bother" the GP about a chest infection, 9 weeks of coughing later I had an xray and discovered I'd had pneumonia and had a partially collapsed lung.

Months later I have now been diagnosed with asthma and cannot live without an inhaler.

OP, get to the GP pronto!!!

Looking after your health isn't dramatic does your Gp surgery not do triage appointments or did you maybe downplay symptoms?

Green phlegm is a sign you have an infection! Get to the doctors your lungs will probably still be sensitive from the pneumonia not long ago!

Call 111 or try GP again.

Call 111. In the last they have booked me an appointment with my own GP when my own GP was full. GPs usually have to keep some appointments back for 111

I've had pneumonia 4 times in the last 7 years, and with your symptoms I would insist on being seen by a GP.

Do you have a SATS monitor? If not, get DH to pop to Boots and get one. My SATS are usually 98%, even when I start to feel unwell, then they'll suddenly drop down to the low 80's (once even as low as 74%) and the GP will insist on me being seen, either by them or in A&E.

Don't be afraid to be a bit pushy, or get DH to, pneumonia is no joke, as you know. I hope you feel much better very soon.