Pneumonia sucks...

GeneralElectric · #1 10-01-2011, 05:15 PM

So I have pneumonia. It really sucks. I blame it on smoking, personally, which is why I'm planning on quitting. However being couped up is driving me nuts. I haven't left my house since coming back from the ER on Tuesday. Well thats sort of a lie, I walked outside once for 5 minutes and sat around and played bass for a bit.

I was running a high fever for two days and nothing could break it. Since it felt like my eyes and ears were going to pop and it was getting hard to maintain consciousness I decided to go to the hospital. I hope that doesn't sound as dramatic as it reads. I have medicaid and its the only place I could go.

Now I sit around, eating medication and EmergenC, hoping to get better. I've lost 15lbs this week and I feel weaker than Maki walking past a Korean brothel. I'm supposed to be on vacation right now.

Now, mayhap someone who knows something about medicine can help me. I started coughing up green phlegm in the beginning because I had the lung infection. As of last night it was clear and I was overjoyed. Now its streaked with lots of red and sometimes yellow or brown. I figure the brown is dried blood. Now, oh sage medical advisers, am I getting better or worse? I'm hoping the blood is just from coughing a lot. Then again, I've never coughed blood before.

GeneralElectric · #2 10-01-2011, 05:17 PM

Bonus points because I can feel the gurgling of fluid in my chest.

Papa Dangerous · #3 10-01-2011, 05:21 PM

Give me a moment, my mother is a respiratory therapist. I can ask her in a second..

Papa Dangerous · #4 10-01-2011, 05:28 PM

Okay. So we know the yellow/green is infection. The brown mucus is from smoking. The red is blood. It is possible to burst a small blood vessel from the coughing. HOWEVER, if there is a lot, and it is bright red, you are advised to go back to the hospital. I asked how long the bleeding would occur from the burst vessel and was told a day, and if it is longer than that than seek medical attention. Be cautious if you do not go and there really is a lot of blood. I do not know how to define what "a lot" or "not a lot" mean.

I wish you the best of health to you. I had pneumonia when I was young. Had both lungs filled with water and I was not breathing correctly. Found out that if I was not taken the hospital at that very moment, I probably would of died within minutes.

Skitch it! · #5 10-01-2011, 05:33 PM

Smoking won't help anything of course, but there is this as well dude,

Excessive alcohol consumption may be linked to pneumonia

I hope it's short lived and your back up and about soon, take it easy.

GeneralElectric · #6 10-01-2011, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Skitch it!

Smoking won't help anything of course, but there is this as well dude,

Excessive alcohol consumption may be linked to pneumonia

I hope it's short lived and your back up and about soon, take it easy.

Oh great, and I drink all the time too. Is there nothing fun for me left?

GeneralElectric · #7 10-01-2011, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Papa Dangerous

Okay. So we know the yellow/green is infection. The brown mucus is from smoking. The red is blood. It is possible to burst a small blood vessel from the coughing. HOWEVER, if there is a lot, and it is bright red, you are advised to go back to the hospital. I asked how long the bleeding would occur from the burst vessel and was told a day, and if it is longer than that than seek medical attention. Be cautious if you do not go and there really is a lot of blood. I do not know how to define what "a lot" or "not a lot" mean.

I wish you the best of health to you. I had pneumonia when I was young. Had both lungs filled with water and I was not breathing correctly. Found out that if I was not taken the hospital at that very moment, I probably would of died within minutes.

Thanks man, I'm much obliged. Its been red since this morning but I'll have periods of clear or just yellow mucus. I've only had a few times where its all red, but most of the time its just got some fat streaks in it.

Skitch it! · #8 10-01-2011, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

Oh great, and I drink all the time too. Is there nothing fun for me left?

Well yeah, but maybe just a bit less of it

That's all I'm saying, I'm not walking into your manor and telling you what's what by any means, I hope your on the mend soon.

rekesbass · #9 10-01-2011, 06:33 PM

That does suck,I had it before...DO NOT IGNORE THE BLOOD..that is not good. When I had it,I had it bad,coughing up LOTS of blood(major respiratory infection) ..landed me in the hospital for 5 days..I don't mean to scare you but,don't ignore this..stay diligent and get well..

MakiSupaStar · #10 10-01-2011, 06:49 PM

The best way to walk past a korean brothel is without a wallet. Unless they throw you a freebie off the clock, you're not getting laid.

sandmangeck · #11 10-01-2011, 06:50 PM

Lots of sleep, and fluids.

RBX4 · #12 10-01-2011, 07:11 PM

Feel better

1958Bassman · #13 10-01-2011, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

So I have pneumonia. It really sucks. I blame it on smoking, personally, which is why I'm planning on quitting. However being couped up is driving me nuts. I haven't left my house since coming back from the ER on Tuesday. Well thats sort of a lie, I walked outside once for 5 minutes and sat around and played bass for a bit.

I was running a high fever for two days and nothing could break it. Since it felt like my eyes and ears were going to pop and it was getting hard to maintain consciousness I decided to go to the hospital. I hope that doesn't sound as dramatic as it reads. I have medicaid and its the only place I could go.

Now I sit around, eating medication and EmergenC, hoping to get better. I've lost 15lbs this week and I feel weaker than Maki walking past a Korean brothel. I'm supposed to be on vacation right now.

Now, mayhap someone who knows something about medicine can help me. I started coughing up green phlegm in the beginning because I had the lung infection. As of last night it was clear and I was overjoyed. Now its streaked with lots of red and sometimes yellow or brown. I figure the brown is dried blood. Now, oh sage medical advisers, am I getting better or worse? I'm hoping the blood is just from coughing a lot. Then again, I've never coughed blood before.

Call your doctor about the blood. It may not not be unusual but there's a bad strain of pneumonia going around. I knew someone who had it recently. 'Knew' isn't a typo- she was 36. Went into the hospital and didn't leave under her own power.

RosieB · #14 10-01-2011, 08:07 PM

I had pneumonia a few years ago. Spent 3.5 days in the hospital with it. Weak as a baby for months afterward. But not once did I cough up any kind of blood at all.

I've also been ill in the past, too, where I've coughed so hard for so long that I've torn connecting tissue between my ribs. They said I was lucky I didn't crack any ribs. Hurt like I had and recovery was just as long. Didn't cough up any blood then, either.

I'd listen to PapaD and if it's more than just a tinge here and there, go back to the hospital. Better to be safe and make sure.

Hope it's nothing, though, and that you recover quickly.

madmatt · #15 10-01-2011, 08:53 PM

I had it twice before the age of ten.
I still remember that night in the hospital all by my lonesome watching TV when what comes on the tube?
Night Gallery.
I never felt so alone all of my life.

whyseye · #16 10-03-2011, 08:49 AM

Worried about you....hoping that you went back to the doctor, and are being cared for as we speak.

GeneralElectric · #17 10-03-2011, 09:01 PM

Well I stopped bleeding yesterday so I decided to not go, until I started spitting up blood again today. My coughing is pretty violent but I'm off tomorrow and will call the doctor.