lesleya
27-02-09, 07:54
Apologies for posting about feeling ill again but i am so itred of feeling like this....id give anything to feel well even for a few days...
Does anyone know the difference between a chest infection and viral infection..is there much difference?
Ive been ill since sunday evening. I went to bed on sunday night with a little bit of a sore throat but woke up monday with the whole lot!!.....streaming eyes...streaming nose (4 boxes of kleenex since monday), sore ears which felt like they were full of water, sore burning chest which hurts like hell, sore throat, and a hacking cough, eyes caked up, pressure in my head. I had that norovirus a few weeks ago and i felt about as bad as i thought i could feel...but no this is the pits. My chest is wheezing burning and crackling...but the crackling goes away for a while when im able to cough up some of the green crap thats on my chest (not nice)
I gave in and went to drs wednesday and saw the nurse practioner, she said my chest sounded clear eventhough i could hear it crackling? but she also took a water sample and that showed up i have a water infection!! so she sent it off to see which type it is, she offered me an inhaler for when i felt wheezy, and off i went home. I woke up early hours of wednesday feeling like i was choking and could hardly breathe, and i was burning up but i felt a bit better after an hour or so coughing to clear my chest of whatever is there. But im ashamed to say i ended up having to call the dr when surgery started out because i felt so ill and i just couldnt have dragged myself to the health centre to save my life. Anyway dr eventually came out and she examined my chest etc and said that my chest was clear too? but when she saw what i was coughing up she said i had a chest or viral infection and took a sample away??....gave me some doxycycline which is the only antibiotic up to now im not allergic too. But she said if its viral then the doxycycline wont do any good anyway?
Call me dim of you like but what i dont understand is how can they say your chest sounds clear...then say you have a chest infection or viral infection?
I thought if you had a chest infection they could tell by listening to your chest? My drs always make me feel like i shouldnt be wasting their time...but honestly i do only go if im desperate id love it if i never had to go.
Will these constant bugs/infections ever go away:unsure:
Does anyone know the difference between a chest infection and viral infection..is there much difference?
Ive been ill since sunday evening. I went to bed on sunday night with a little bit of a sore throat but woke up monday with the whole lot!!.....streaming eyes...streaming nose (4 boxes of kleenex since monday), sore ears which felt like they were full of water, sore burning chest which hurts like hell, sore throat, and a hacking cough, eyes caked up, pressure in my head. I had that norovirus a few weeks ago and i felt about as bad as i thought i could feel...but no this is the pits. My chest is wheezing burning and crackling...but the crackling goes away for a while when im able to cough up some of the green crap thats on my chest (not nice)
I gave in and went to drs wednesday and saw the nurse practioner, she said my chest sounded clear eventhough i could hear it crackling? but she also took a water sample and that showed up i have a water infection!! so she sent it off to see which type it is, she offered me an inhaler for when i felt wheezy, and off i went home. I woke up early hours of wednesday feeling like i was choking and could hardly breathe, and i was burning up but i felt a bit better after an hour or so coughing to clear my chest of whatever is there. But im ashamed to say i ended up having to call the dr when surgery started out because i felt so ill and i just couldnt have dragged myself to the health centre to save my life. Anyway dr eventually came out and she examined my chest etc and said that my chest was clear too? but when she saw what i was coughing up she said i had a chest or viral infection and took a sample away??....gave me some doxycycline which is the only antibiotic up to now im not allergic too. But she said if its viral then the doxycycline wont do any good anyway?
Call me dim of you like but what i dont understand is how can they say your chest sounds clear...then say you have a chest infection or viral infection?
I thought if you had a chest infection they could tell by listening to your chest? My drs always make me feel like i shouldnt be wasting their time...but honestly i do only go if im desperate id love it if i never had to go.
Will these constant bugs/infections ever go away:unsure: