Pneumonia-anyone ever had it?

[spacecadet]

I became very ill almost overnight with a fever, chills, etc and a hacking cough last thurs, after 24 hours i was feeling worse with an agonising backache, as an ex-nurse i suspected i had pnuemonia but couldnt get an on call gp to come out! eventually one cameon NYD and confirmed it and put me on anti-biotics, i saw my usual gp yesterday who said i def had it and would need to go for a chest x-ray in a week, he told me to go home and rest as much as poss, but i have 4 children, dh only had 3 days off over christmas and went back to work on NYD, so ive been managing on my own, but i feel exhausted, every breath is agony, ive still got a temp etc, has anyone else ever had it? if so , how long was it before you felt better? im not sure why i got it in the first place but i have been very low since losing a baby girl at 23 weeks in oct and picked up several virus;s since then which i found hard to shake off, im guessing that must have lowered my immunity.

to make matters worse, hes gone to work and is going to visit his cousin tonight, leaving me on my own.
im quite looking forward to him going to wales!
pph, my mum is in wales which is why i have no one, i dont have any brothers or sisters, its one of the reasons why i wanted to move back to wales.

Oh FFS. Can only repeat yesterday. Try and get yourself hospitalised for a bit of a chance for a rest.

Phone the gp and get yourself into hospital, they will contact your partner and he will have to come back and look after the kids then.

Pneumonia kills. please take this seriously, and someone else will force your partner to.

Go to hospital or to your mum's. You cannot go on like this. What on earth does he think he is doing? What is going on in your relationship? I am horrified beyond words.

Get to hospital! Tell them you are having trouble breathing - it's pneumonia, ffs!

Listen, I did like you. I didn't stay off my feet. I was 25 and so fit I even had lines of muscle in my abdomen.

I wound up on oxygen and 3 different drips.

Now THAT got my attention.

DON'T go down that road! You have kids. They need you.

Your husband will just have to cope.

aloha, i cant go to mums as she lives 4 hours away, but our relationship hasnt been good lately.
in the last year, i have lost 2 babies, one at 16 weeks, another in oct at 23 weeks. and as you can appreciate, it has put a strain on our marriage, dh has changed and is being very unpleasant towards me, just before christmas, i actually turned round and said i was leaving as i couldnt take it anymore, id rather be alone than in a loveless marriage, however, we found out that he had got a job in north wales which meant i could finally move near my mum, so i hoped that this new job would be our saviour. he goes to wales in 2 weeks and i stay here to sell the house, im hoping that abscense might make the heart grow fonder and that he will want to visit me and the kids, also a few weeks with my mother and he will be begging to come back every other weekend, shres not the easiest woman to live with..as my step dad will tell you!

Spacey, seriously, you have to rest. You can't expect to be on childcare duty and get better. Would your mum come for a visit to help out?

I ignored my pnuemonia becuase dh was away working abroad. I had people doing school runs. I remember the last straw was when I tried to mop the kitchen floor as it was so dirty it was a health hazard for the baby, and muy body just screamed 'Oh No You Don't!!!!!' and I threw up five times violently in the sink. Then I lay down on the sofa and a friend came to visit. She took one look at me and phoned the doctor for a home visit. He came and called an ambulance.

Could you call a doctor? Perhaps he would do the same. I can't believe your stupid doctor thinks that a mother of four can recover from pneumonia at home.

I remember how desperate I was. I even considered calling social services to look after the kids but then was scared they'd have me on some 'dangerous loony mums' register and pay regular visits for life or something. I'm not good at asking for help and it sounds like you're not either. After the event so many of my friends said, 'FOR GOD's SAKE woman!! Why didn't you call me? I'd have taken the kids'.

So do it Spacey. Get help. It's in everone's interest for you to make a good recovery.

Well, you won't be able to sell the house if you're so ill you're laying in a hospital bed semi-conscious.

And that's where you'll end up if you don't get some rest!

Honestly, everything aside, space, this is your LIFE we're talking about!

Please don't muck about w/this illness. Please get to hospital NOW.

There Spacey. Resounding advice. Step away from the computer and get yourself into hospital. (I had a computer by my hospital bed. Pricey, but nice.)

Get well soon. x

too late to get a home visit, but when dh comes home i will demand that he takes me to a and e, if its that inconvinient for him, he can just drop me off there.

I had pleurisy which turned to pneumonia back in July and I ended up spending a week in hospital having tests and radioactive lung scans with a suspected blood clot in my lung because I was coughing up blood. If you bring up anything resembling blood you get yourself to A&E as soon as possible. Pneumonia can be fatal and if you dont get it sorted quickly the outcome could be awful. My doctor misdiagnosed me originally when I went with agonising neck and back pain, she diagnosed a trapped nerve which wasted another week, then a week later she decided it was a chest infection, but by the it was too late, I had started to bringing up blood and went to see her and she phoned the hospital and got me a bed sorted out over the phone. Because it was left to get too bad though it has now left me with a dreadful weakness in my chest and if I go out in the cold my chest is agony. I now keep getting recurring chest infections. You really need to put yourself first and if in any doubt just go to A&E. Hope this helps.

The hell w/asking him to drop you off! He needs to look after HIS kids! The second he walks in the door, phone for a taxi and go to A&E. NO arguments, just, 'I feel like I'm going to die, I need to go to hospital NOW.' and away you go.

You may find yourself lying down in A&E. It's not a bad idea. Don't stop yourself. It may make them see you more quickly.

My doctor failed to diagnose me too spacey first time around. I think mothers have a habit of struggling on so no-one believes or can understand how ill they really are.

I'm glad you're going to A&E. Don't struggle on. Give in to it before it brings you to your knees.

I've just read some of your previous posts and I would like to say how very sorry I am for your loss. I did not realise just what you have been going through. Pneumonia is known to be caused by stress and getting run down amongst other things. I think that was what caused my episode. It sounds to me as though nobody around you is giving you any support whatsoever including your GP, his attitude stinks. I really wish I could offer you some more advice but all I can say is that you MUST now put yourself first for the sake of your other children, if you don't get some treatment soon you could be suffering for weeks and then taking months to fully recover. Take care of yourself x

just to put the icing on the cake, dh took ds1(4) to school this morning and promised to nip home from work and collect him for me, well 5 mins ago school phoned to ask where dh was, he never turned up!, the secratary ended up bringing him home. phoned dh up and he said, oh sorry i forgot!

Oh Spacecadet Who picked up ds?

the school secratary brought him home, how embarrassing!

You feeling any better? When do your ABS run out? Any further appointemnts anywhere? How many hours rest are you getting? Hope you are leaving things and laying down.

im doing as little as poss, abs run out on sun.

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yes thats how it started with me, shivers, really high temp etc, did you go into hospital cod?

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yes, gp says i will have to be vaccinated in future, still got aching limbs though and cough, cough, cough, was a lot worse a week ago though.

ive got to have an x-ray next week some time apparently.