It feels like an elephant's standing on my chest.....

[Orinoco]

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I was told 3 times I didn't have a chest infection but asthma .. It turned out I had such a severe undiagnosed by doctors chest infection I ended up being ambulanced (with flashing light) to hospital and put on oxygen, chest x-ray and 4 courses of really scarily strong anti-biotics and 6 weeks of inability to move and look after my children

please take this seriously and go to your doctors

i was going to say it sounds like a chest infection!

go to doctors or casualty, im ill with pnuemonia at the mo and you dont want to end up like me.you should have been seen by a doc, did anyone listen to your chest? if not how do they know you dont have a chest infection?

spacey ... you ok?

DD had pneumonia .. was scary for a bit

I never had a pneumonia diagnosis just severe chest infection and that was bad enough

better than i was a week ago, got a long running thread on it in health.www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=134762&stamp=060107152102\here}
seriously though orinoco, i would get checked out be a doctor.

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sorry didnt mean to scare you! if you had pnuemonia you wouldnt be able to get out of bed and would have a temp of about 39, but you might be in the early throes of a chest infection.

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i went to casualty this morning, and dh has been better since i got back, hes still going to work tomorrow though ggrr, at least i have done zilch today.

please do see a gp yourself though if symptoms dont go away, and or if you develop a temp.
there are a lot of virus;s round at the moment which seem to be developing into chest infections.