I’ve had three lots of tablets for pleurisy I’ve also got grade 3 asthma I went for a chest x-ray they said that was fine, but I still have a wheezing cough and pains in my back, should I go back to docs for more tablets? Don’t want more if they don’t work. Please help
I went to the ER on Tuesday because I was coughing up blood. No cold or flu symptoms at the time. After X-ray, blood work, and cat scan they came back and said I had walking pneumonia. Since then I do have some cold symptoms, mostly congestion. Today is Saturday and I’m still coughing up blood. I would say I have 2 episodes a day when it starts up and I spit out blood about 10 times before I get it all out. I don’t feel horrible but I’m getting more concerned each day it doesn’t go away. Please advise.. No cold or flu symptoms at the time. After X-ray, blood work, and cat scan they came back and said I had walking pneumonia. Since then I do have some cold symptoms, mostly congestion. Today is Saturday and I’m still coughing up blood. I would say I have 2 episodes a day when it starts up and I spit out blood about 10 times before I get it all out. I don’t feel horrible but I’m getting more concerned each day it doesn’t go away. Please advise.
My husband (62) was diagnosed with PMR 20 months ago and has gradually reduced his steroid dosage to zero. He is now very achey and we want to know if it is worthwhile to go back on a low (maybe 2mg) dosage of Prednisolone. We are in Spain at the moment but going back to the UK to see his consultant on the 18th of January.
i had pneumonia when I was 16 and it was a bacterial infection I was in a lot of pain but we manage to catch it just in seconds. but my pain never went away and I’VE never had the same body type as I did before and I am now 18 I still get pain down my sides and stabs in my chest and I’ve had lots of x rays and all sorts of test. This year 2016 I got pleurisy again where the pain came back stronger and all the same aches and symptoms again where I was prescribed as antibiotics again it went away within in 1-2 weeks after that but then I got it again for second time this year with all the same pain it keeps going back and fourth onto my sides and sometimes affects both but no pain every goes away iv’e seen doctor at hositpal and have had lots of x ray but even they don’t know what it is because it only came out unclear the first time ever other ultra scan or x ray was clear so I don’t understand why I’ still suffering and got this pain please HELP!
I am a 35 year old male. I weigh 195 pounds and am 5 foot 9. I currently see a psychiatrist for OCD and Anxiety disorder. I am on 1-2 mg Alprazolam (as needed daily), and 200 mg of Sertraline. In addition to these medications, I have an albuterol inhaler that I take as needed — which is not very often, as I have very mild asthma.
(…) I have been free of using nebulizors, and other inhalers for 20 years — since I started high school. In these twenty years, I have not had a severe asthma reaction that warranted any concern. (…) I had a lung collapse when I was probably five years old, (…) But then it all went away! I went to college, ditched my medication and forgot all about my childhood ailment. (…)I have had pneumonia twice in the last ten years. I am NOT Tobacco smoker. I have for the last five years used cannabis on occasion (I use a double filter chambered water pipe)
On Sunday, 20th November, I woke up to a typical head cold. (…)
By Monday,(…) diagnosed with asthmatic exasperation, which I found very odd. (…) They gave me two nebulizer treatments (back to back), put me on prednisone, and gave me Amoxicillin. (…) Later that evening, things got worse, and my wife rushed me to the hospital (…)
My breathing was terrible. What I could breathe, which was extremely little, was an extremely loud and audible high pitched gurgling sound. I was admitted and began receiving nebulizer treatments every two hours. (…)I’m still doing nebulizer treatments on the machine I haven’t used in twenty years, and taking 40mg of prednisone. The hospital agreed, asthmatic exasperation. (…)
( My question ) How could I go twenty years virtually symptom free of asthma, to randomly, out of the blue, literally on my deathbed from this childhood affliction? In the last twenty years I have been exposed to so many things that never set my asthma off.
(…)
I received the following report from a chest CT scan: There is evidence of a 3.2 cm x 1.6 cm x 2.5 cm irregular infiltration in the peripheral aspect of the superior segment of the left lower lobe. Air bronchograms are seen within this. This may represent a focal pulmonary infiltrate. Underlying mass lesion can not be ruled out. There is no demonstrated pleural abnormality.
What does this mean? The nurse said the my (primary care provider) PCP thinks it is fluid or an infection and not likely to be malignant. I am still worried. This seems very large and I don’t have symptoms of pneumonia. How concerned should I be that this is cancer? I am a 40 yo, female with no smoking history. This was initially found on a routine work x-ray. How should I proceed?
After 1 week living again here in davao, when i woke up in the morning i have this soar throat and a dry cough, then after that i had a fever for 3 days because i just use a home treatment style. i use strepsils to take off my soar throat and when my fever and soar throat has gone my dry cough remained. then after 1 week i just noticed that after i coughed and spit my saliva i saw or observed a small amount of blood like a 1 droplet of blood then i continues observing it by coughing then spitting it and when i drank more water because i got nervous of having that kind of symptoms the blood on my spit had gone when i cough again and spit. Then in the next morning again it repeated the same, that’s why in the next morning i visit my doctor here in davao together with an xray and suptum test there were all normals. But the give me the first kind of antibiotics to take off my cough, it was CO-AMOXICLAV for 7 days twice a day and a medicine for tkaing out the phlegm but i forgot the name of that medicine, and it was for 5 days twice a day. After taking all those recommended medicines my cough did’t gone. That’s why i visit again my doctor after 1 week training, and again they recommended me another kind of antibiotics and it AZITHROMYCIN for 3 days once a day, and for disolning phlegm for 5 days. And jsut like the same i finished taking those medicines but my cough still remained, that’s why my mother decided to bring me to the hospital because it was almost a month of having a cough then they adviceme to take another xray and sputum test and recommend me to take IMMUNOMAX and CETEREZINE i think. And after the result of the xray it was a bad result because i had a bilateral pneumonia and it can also be a tubercolosis ( TB ) but when they forward me to the TBDC department they told me that it was a pneumonia coz my sputum test is normal. That’s why they ddnt recommended me for another medicine and my father advice me to take a morning jogging and walking for about one hour and drink boiled ginger with calamansi for every taking meals. And he forwarded me to the organic doctors and the doctor recommended me to take virgin coconut oil and a droplets of combination of BERBERIS, HEPAR and TRAUMEEL, and she also told me to take 1000mg of vitamin c everyday, then after a week of taking that i my body losses energy or my body got weak and everytime i take a meal i feel like vomiting it but i ddn’t have any head ache that time that’s why my mother bring me to the nearest hospital in our home and that was last friday evening and the doctor recommended me another antibiotics and it was CEFIXIME for 7 days and once a day, and for cough medicine for 7 days twice a day to take, and the doctor told me that my CBC, URINALYSIS, CREA and XRAYS are all normals, and today is my 4th day of taking those medicines and my cough is still remaining , but i also observed that i just had a cough everytime i woke up, and after taking my meal. And i had this chest pain and back pain everytime i cough or breathe big. And another thing is that i dont know if i spitted a mucus coz everytime i cough and spit it out it is just like a saliva.
I am a 52 yr old female. I take Lovastatin and Levothyroxin.
1 month ago I went to emergency room because of a cough that had been coming and going for a month and never had a fever phlegm was always clear to cloudy no color to it. I was diagnosed with having pneumonia and sepsis. Pneumonia was not seen on xrays it was seen on cat scan with contrast. I spent 4 nights in hospital getting iv antibiotics and fluids for the sepsis. Pneumonia from my understanding was viral. I am not at 4 weeks after having been admitted and cough is not getting any better. I have been to dr 2x and they say oh what you are going thru is normal. It takes 3-4 weeks for lungs to clear up. (I was told that at 3 weeks post admission.) The phlegm starting 2 nights ago has gotten very thick and green. I am also coughing up some Looser phlegm but it also no longer is clear to cloudy. I am concerned that this Dr office is not really listening to the problem
hi docter my mother is 42 and a MDR TB patient and uses her treatment everyday but she is still coughing blood can you tell me what is wrong please it happens regularly I really need your help please tell me what to ….
I am a 49 year old male. I recently had an xray that came back saying. There are some ill-defined patchy mixed air space and interstitial opacities seen in the left perihilar region. Notably adjoining the left upper lobe pulmonary artery. No focal consolidation is seen. the remaining lungs are clear, as are the pleural spaces. No bony abnormality is seen. I have had a ct scan the other day, and get the results next Tuesday. As this is concerning me, I am looking for more information as my doctor couldnt explain the xray report to me. I have recently had whooping cough, would this have anything to do with it. The doctor put me on Curam Duo Forte 875gm/125gm
I am a 36y/o Hispanic male, 6’2, 255lbs. I have HCV, asthma and chronic bronchitis. For the past 4 days I have had bad upper and lower GI cramps followed by a semi-soft bowel movement. The bowel movements occur approx 6-8 times daily. They first started off a normal yellowish-brown then turned a dark green color starting yesterday late afternoon. I did take some bismuth tablets but it’s just a temporary relief. Today I began to feel more nauseated and fatigued than usual. My body feels hot even though it’s cool to warm outside and I have the a/c running when in my truck, but I don’t have the chills. Could this possibly be a viral infection or bacterial? I have leftover sulfa antibiotics at home from a sinus infection I had earlier this year. Could they possibly help alleviate the problem
Hi I’m a 21 year old, tall & Lanky about 155-160 lbs and about 6 months ago I had a spontaneous pneumothorax and I ended up getting a chest tube on the left lung and was in the hospital for about a week an a half. Well they blew it up the best it would and they said it’s still short about 10% Well every since then I have had pain on my left side pretty much identical to when my lung collapsed before. At times it can seem to get really bad and make it where I need to sit down and close my eyes cause I get dizzy and the pain is unbearable sometimes but it eventually goes back to normal to where it’s bearable. The pain isn’t always bad enough to notice but at least twice a day it gets bad enough to where I need to relax. My breathing is usually fine until the pain kicks up a notch and hurts bad then it’s hard to breathe and my side just aches like a knife got shoved in there. Any ideas? Thank you
I am 26 yrs old, female. I have been coughing since last two months. I am taking anti histamin tablet but it does not work. I am coughing continuously. i am feeling itchiness inside my chest and throat. This make my body weaker day by day and cannot concentrate on my work…
Hi Doctor,
I am a 19-year old female, underweight but have been active and healthy before the onset of my symptoms.
I experience multiple symptoms daily including:
Fatigue
Dizziness
Lightheadedness
Brief loss of conciousness
Fast resting heart rate
Numbing of hands
Muscle twitches
Breathlessness
Couging feeling
Chills
Strange sensations in my chest
Chest pain upon strenuous exercise
This was how it started.
Symptoms I had for the first two days were:
Heart and arteries were pounding
Heart rate was fast
Reddish face
Felt very warm/hot
Leg tingling
Anxiety
The triggers may have been:
I ate too much food which compressed my thorax
I may have hypoventilated or did some strange breathing pattern
It’s been two months. The results were all normal for:
Blood tests
Urine tests
Chest xray
ECG
Echocardiogram
Blood pressure
Thus, most problems have been eliminated. The thing is, I am certain that I am NOT just being anxious or stressed.
The only disease I’m worried about is pulmonary hypertension (since I read that diagnosis usually occurs only two years after symptom onset)
Is it likely/possible for me to have pulmonary hypertension given the triggers, symptoms and diagnosis? Or are there anything else that could have led to this exact problem?
Living life in uncertainty and with strange sypmtoms 😛
Thank you very much for answering
Hello there. I’m 21 years of age and I’m a female. I moved out of state two years ago and every since then i have been coughing everyday non-stop. I moved backed a year ago to the original state i was from but the coughing wont stop. Sometimes it would get really bad. I would throw up from coughing. Sometimes I would even have a hard time throwing up and my nose would bleed from it. I would also get sharp back pain like someone is digging a knife into my back. I don’t get enough sleep because my coughing is bothering me. The worst time it happens is usually the afternoon when i go to work and the night time when i sleep. No one in my family have ever experienced this before. So i have been thinking of what to do. Please let me know if i should go to a doctor and get a examine or do something. Thank You
