This is getting ridiculous! I have been sick off and on since Thanksgiving. Sinus infection, cold, congestion, general chest, head crap.

I did 21 days of antibiotics and 4 days after I finished them, bam! This stuff is back again with a venegeance! My head hurts, my chest hurts, my rib cage hurts. I have a sort throat, congestion, practically no voice, coughing, my face hurts, my hair hurts! I know I have another sinus infection, or maybe the other one never got cleared up, but I think it's more than that this time.

When do you know it's pneumonia? I just don't want to keep calling the doc...my regular doc is out on sabatical studying for his boards so I have to see the PA. He's good, but I just don't have the energy.

I've been in bed for the last week. I went to my big shindig Saturday night, but other than that, I have been NO WHERE! And I didn't even stay that long!

BTW, I looked great!

I know I am whinning...

does your chest sound weezey? is any fluid coming up?

when i had pheumonia it went from the green goo..to bubbly foamy stuff. basiclly i was drowning. chest was sounding weezey and crackeling. hurt like the dickens.

( i'm sick now..same stuff. ugh. compounded with the fifth's..i'm a mess. )

whooping cough is going around.

this isn't anything to mess around with. you may have the flu.

don't worry about bothering a dr. GO!

I had pneumonia years ago and i just remember my rib cage hurting and having trouble breathing. I am not foaming at the mouth! LOL!

I know I should call the doc.

I just don't want to get dressed and go...I have no energy.

Whooping cough? I haven't heard of any cases here. That's all I need. I am not coughing like that.

Same thing Coughing,green and you can break a rib or 2 from this. You may
have been giving the wrong antibotic,it happens. Do you have humidifier's
running. Bed rest is good but please call your Dr.,he chose to be that a Dr.
Hope you get better soon,it's yucky... Sue PN

I do have a humidifier! And I am using a steam inhaler to keep the gook running. As for antibiotics, I am allergic to most of them, so I don't have much choice!

Guess I am in good company! Sorry that you two are sick as well! Let's all get better soon!

Just go to the doctor. If you have the energy to attend a blacktie gala, you have the energy to flop into a pair of sweats and go hork some phlegm for the doc. Just go.

that was 2 days ago....

yes ma'am.

I agree with Cindy. Get thee to a Doc or maybe even the ER is a good idea. I'm worried about you...enough is enough, already..

Nope,you are not whining; I just feel really bad for you. Do you recall that i'd said I had a similar problem for 3 yrs! I had everything...allergy tests, sinus surgury, a couple scopes.

No pneumonia in my case (they can tell with an x-ray).

To be honest I do not know what caused my problems. I also had a horrid cough....I think I even broke a rib coughing not to mention what the coughing fits did to my bladder!

I would cough so hard I'd lose my breath.

Anyway, I am on a regimen of Advair, Astelin, Singular. I just hate taking all that, but it seems to keep me healthy.

Before you do anything else try to get your family doc to take an x-ray. It's simple and usually will give you an answer as to whether you have pneumonia.

Good Luck and keep us in the know as to how you are doing.

Tootsie