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PH and Pneumonia
Just this past weekend I went to my urgent care clinic because I woke up with heaviness in my chest, a cough, and just felt really “out of it” and more tired than my usual. I listened to my gut instinct, went for an xray, and was diagnosed with right sided pneumonia and bronchitis. The past few days have been really hard physically for me body.
I am currently on antibiotics, pain medication with cough medicine for the chest pain with coughing, a high strength ibuprofen for the inflammation, and steroids (prednisone). Any lung infection whether it’s viral or bacterial is always so hard for me to get rid of and can take up to a few weeks to start feeling more like myself again.
I decided to do my treatments at home instead of being admitted into the hospital especially because hospitals carry even MORE bacteria that I don’t want to be getting.
Have you had pneumonia with PH? How did this combination make your body feel? What was your treatment option? Do you get frequent respiratory infections too? Do your symptoms of PH get exacerbated with a virus or infection?
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