tell me about chest infections please

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i had a virus that started nearly 2 weeks ago and it was like flu but i was still able to walk i had a very sore throat then a hacking cough that made me throw up green gunk ,ive stopped being sick but the last few days ive had stabby pains in my chest on the left side and im worried ,does this sound like a chest infection ? ,i do feel very tired all the time its knocked me for six.

could be a chest infection, could be pleurisy another kind of infection in the chest or you could have pulled a muscle with the hacking cough.
think its quite normal to feel so awful and washed out, but i think that you need to pop to the Docs to put your mind at rest and let him have a listen to your chest.
Antibiotics will help if you need them.

i do have a percription for penicillin from the gp in my bag coz i went to see him about my throat and he said give it a few days and if its no better then get the meds but my throat did get better and now my chest hurts,so im thinking maybe i should just go and get the perscription filled .
is that a bad idea ?

Antibiotics prescribed for sore tonsils won't necessarily help a chect infection if that's what you do have.

I think it might be worth getting your chest seen by the GP.

I'd go to the GP again. I had a smilar thing last year, and it ended up going on for nearly four months until I saw a GP who took it seriously and referred me to the hospital chest clinic, where they found a shadow on my lung (I had thought I'd pulled a muscle through coughing). I had very vicious antibiotics for three weeks, which finally got rid of whatever it was.

I am not a keen taker of medicines, but I'm glad I took the antibiotics!

i think i will go back to gp on monday if its no better,any ideas on what i can take till then ,im just taking paracetamol

ok so i went to the gp today and he gave me cough medicine wth
i feel so rough
do you think i should go back tomorow and see another doctor
i have had one chest infection b4 and it feels the same
i feel like if i could just throw up to get rid of some of it id feel better

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I'd see another doctor!