How long will it take you to recover from pneumonia?

Answer 1

Speaking from sad, personal experience, I came down with pneumonia in June, which started off as just a normal cough - the kind one would get just having a cold. As the cough grew worse, new symptoms appeared, such as chills and night sweats. I started wondering if something was wrong when I started to get diarrhea, which went away after a few days on its own. Then came loss of appetite, a fever, dizziness, confusion and a runny nose with blood streaks in the mucus. The most prevalent symptom was lack of oxygen, which I didn't notice at the time, but I did notice that I needed a fan to feel comfortable. I spent a lot of time in bed and after a while I couldn't lie down flat without having trouble breathing, so I had to sit up in a chair. I hardly got any sleep and there was a lot of confusion in my mind. I didn't dream much, but it was hard to separate the dreams I did have with waking reality. I was able to walk around, but barely. It was an effort just to get from the bed to the bathroom, or to cross the street to get groceries. I live alone, so I had to run all errands by myself. (I suppose I had a few friends who would have helped, but I was too confused to call them and ask for assistance.) Somehow, in my fevered confusion, I didn't think I was feeling that, so I thought I'd get better really soon. But it got much, much worse...

A friend told me I might have pneumonia, so I went to the doctor and she gave me a round of antibiotics and that knocked out the fever, but all the other symptoms persisted - even the confusion. I thought perhaps my body was just run down and the symptoms would go away on their own, so I went on a trip I'd been planning (I should have been resting in bed) and ended up in the hospital for 3 days with another round of antibiotics administered via intravenous antibiotics treatment. They released me and I finished my dose with 4 little pink pills (they cost me $75.00 dollars - just for the pills. It was either, get them or die). After about two or 3 days, I felt a little better, but I was still weak as a feather. Just when I thought I was on my way to recovery, I began to have heart trouble, the worst of which lasted about a week or two and it tapered off for about one month after that. It's now mid-December and I am pretty much back to "normal" but I am weaker and I still have a little, annoying, dry cough and a little bit of stuff in my lungs. This is especially irritated by the cold, damp weather in the region where I live. So in short, it takes about half a year to (sort of) recover if the case was bad enough. A milder case could take a few days to a few weeks.

Now, if I should catch another cold or maybe even the flu, I don't know what will happen. I did get the pneumonia shot while I was still in the hospital, so I hope that will prevent future infections. BUT, I won't know if I'm really over the pneumonia until I am tested with a regular seasonal bug. Not a good way to find out, but perhaps it's the only true way to know for sure how my lungs can handle infections. (NOT that I recommend going out and catching some bug deliberately...)

Answer 2

about a week. After i was diagnosed with it and hospitalized for 4 days.

Answer 3

Days.....weeks....years even

Answer 4

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