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[ricevermicelli]

The doctor says walking pneumonia.

I have antibiotics now.

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[catling.livejournal.com]

Gaaaaaah! Well, yes, that would do it. So sorry to hear this, but glad you've started on antibiotics. I hope your recovery now that you have the meds is swift.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

well...I guess I like the antibiotics....

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Diagnosis is good. Antibiotics are good. I'm glad that things are looking up (though I'm sure they still feel miserable).

When I had micoplasmic pneumonia, it took something like two weeks (and a second doctor) before we figured out what was wrong. (Micoplasma is harder to detect in blood tests, as I recall, and my usual doctor was convinced I just had a nasty cold virus or something. My mother didn't agree.) No idea if that's what you've got, but I'm glad you at least got it figured out without undue delay.

[chessdev.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon

[macthud]

Better living through biochemistry!

I'm sorry it's gone on so long, but very glad you should be feeling much better within 48 hours.

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

ACK! Well, at least there are antibiotics.

I hope you are feeling better quickly.

[mizarchivist]

You are the 3rd person I've heard get this in the past month: 1 other local, and an aunt in Ohio. Do take care, my dear.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

at least it's not walking dead? i hear that's going around.

heal well :)

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[caulay.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that, pneumonia is nasty in any form. Rest, let the antibiotics work and get better.

[drwex]

For all that modern medicine sucks, it's remarkably good at dealing with things that can be solved by taking a pill. Glad you have the good pills now.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Is it reasonable that it took as long as it did to figure out?

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Yes.

I first called my doctor about feeling ill on the 30th. I was in her office, diagnosed and prescribed antibiotics, on the 3rd. In between those dates, her office was closed, but I spoke to her over the phone two more times. She offered me antibiotics at least once, and I passed on the basis that we didn't have any reason to believe I had anything bacterial.

The key difference between the flu she thought I had and the atypical pneumonia I've got is that the pneumonia makes the lungs sound funny. My doc was willing to prescribe speculatively, I'm the idiot who insisted on a diagnosis before abx.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yuck! I hope the drugs leave you feeling better very shortly.