Pneumonia and chest x ray

[ohpoowhatnow]

Does anyone have any experience of having pneumonia that was resistant to amoxicillin? I've had a follow up chest x ray due to not feeling well and apparently it's worse than it was. Not sure how they will treat me and worried. This is been going on for over 6 weeks and 4 courses of AB. They've told me to head to hospital and pack a bag.

Have they tried you on azithromycin?

I took doxycycline in that position last year.

@ohpoowhatnow Sorry you're poorly, these respiratory infections are so debilitating aren't they?

My symptoms are sore throat, dry cough, low grade fever, swollen glands & breathlessness, and a nice bit of fatigue too! Do you have the breathlessness?

No experience quite yet, but I'm a little bit both behind & ahead of you in the process.

I've had amoxicillin and doxycycline courses over the last fortnight and am just beginning erythromycin. GP has arranged a chest X-ray for tomorrow & sputum sample (if I ever produce any!)
GP is a bit puzzled tbh, but the symptoms are real and she told me that I am not allowed to just ignore them & hope it goes away!

Good luck with yours

@ohpoowhatnow I'm sorry - I didn't register that you have pneumonia. I really hope that you get better v v soon & back to your normal life

When I had pneumonia, I was on 2 different antibiotics, so if you've only had amoxicillan, I'm sure there will be other options

DH once had pneumonia and had 5 different types of antibiotics before one worked. The last one had all over it that it was one only to be taken after everything else had failed which was a bit worrying - but it sorted it nicely

Amoxicillin has never been any good for my chest infections. Doxycycline is where it's at!

Really hope you feel better very soon!

I had a pink horse pill when they discovered amoxicillin wasn't touching it. Probably doxicillin.

I had Clarithromycin after Amoxicillin didn’t clear my chest infection last year. They gave me a five day course of prednisolone too. The second lot antibiotics cleared it.

They will want to start a different antibiotic and maybe see if they can get a sample to help work out what bug it is. Are you bringing up much sputum? They can test that.

Co amoxiclav, IV and then pills, 3 courses. 2 weeks in hospital, six months recovering lung function:(

I recently was in hospital for 3 nights with pneumonia. I've been ill since 4th Jan. If they have told you to go to hospital you need to go. I had different IV antibiotics to fight the infection I had. They did blood culture tests to fingld out the bacteria that was causing the infection. I was so ill had a high temp and fever.

I had 4 different antibiotics. Two when first out of A&E and then when not recovered in two weeks , two different ones plus steroids and inhaler . It really took almost 3 months recovery all together.

Hi OP, how are you feeling this morning, did you go to hospital as they advised?

Hi everyone thanks for your replies. Sounds like there's some really nasty bugs going round. I'm here now , came this morning with my bag packed. Will see what they say

Best of luck. Keep us posted if/when you feel up to it @ohpoowhatnow

You're in the best place for them to get to the bottom of things 💐

Let us know how you get on. Sending hugs xx

Yes, the Amoxicillin that I was prescribed did nothing to shift it. The doctor said it was likely to be an a-typical pneumonia and I was prescribed Clarithomycin instead and started to feel better within a couple of days.
I hope you feel better soon, it's a horrible illness.

Likely to require IV antibiotics and blood tests to check CRP levels. You are in the best place and good that they arranged a chest x-ray.

How are you? Are you still in hospital? X

@ThatDaringTurtle hi thanks for checking in, I'm not, I was in for two days having tests after we found out the pneumonia had doubled in size. So after an ultrasound by a very helpful respiratory specialty I was sent home on 7 weeks of AB double dose .... if that doesn't clear it I don't know what will 😂 actually starting to feel better too which is a nice feeling after 2 months.

@ThatDaringTurtle how are you getting on ? Are you feeling better ?

I'm getting there. It's so frustrating not being able to rush around like I did without getting breathless. Pleased you are feeling better. Pneumonia is horrible x

You’ll need IV antibiotics at the hospital. My husband had double pneumonia recently and that was the only thing that worked.

Do get a vaccination as soon as you can. Once you’ve had pneumonia, it often recurs.

Hope you’re well soon.