Pleurisy and Chest Infection Clarithromycin

I Can really relate, at this time i am just about to finish my 3rd week with Clarithromycin.All those symptoms youn speak about i have experienced myself. Like t=you i was told it was a musce strain through coughing, lung infection, every week i was being diagnosed with something more serious..last week i waas told something worse, musce strain,Infection , Pluerisey until last week was told i have/had pnuemonia.No wonder i felt so bad. The antibiotics have been working, cough sotpped weeks ago but the fluid in my Lungs was lingering. Just this week i cansay i feel a lot better, going back to dr and hope gettingthe all clear. The worse thing is i cannot sleep very well ,only few hours per night.

Hope you sre fully recovered.

They found a bacteria in my spit called klebsiella, immune to most antibiotics and can cause pneumonia, check it out, it's a new super bug

you need a big soft cuddle i have had this for about 5 mths and i have asthma too

hope you get beeet soon

Im having the same problem but mine is on the left side i had a chest cold and was thinking i pulled a muscle and am still not sure i took anti biotics and the cold is gone im jist left with a bad pain in my left chest like a pulled muscle and when i breathe in or blow my nose extream pain. please let me know how you fixed it or what it was it hirts so bad!!

This is the first site I have found that describes symptoms similar to what I have been experiencing for nearly 8 weeks--although mine are (thankfully) dissipating:

I came down with a horrible cold/flu after traveling; bad cough; eventually, my right rib cage began hurting horribly when I coughed or sneezed. I had to use a heating pad on my side.

The cold/flu slowly eased away, except the pain in my rib cage stayed. It lightened up a bit, then began moving around!  I wonder if it's pleurisy, but that usually doesn't stay around, does it?

Nearly 8 weeks later, I still clear my throat regularly, and I still occasionally cough--it feels like it's coming from my right lung only, and the rib cage pain has moved behind my right breast.

Everywhere I look on the internet brings up lung cancer. Makes no sense, as this began with a cold/flu, has lessened quite a bit, but, jeez, I can't kick this all the way.

Any home remedy ideas? Lots of garlic? I hate going to the doctor!

Everything you have described my husband suffers too and it is truly awful to see him so despondent about his health. There does not seem to be a magic pill or treatment which halts this lung ailment. If there was, I wish we could find it, which is why I'm trawling internet right now! I wish you the best of luck with getting better.

So sorry your still feeling so poorly , at this very moment I have a really bad chest infection and pleaurisy I actually thought I was having a heart attack as the pain in my chest going through to my back was something I've never known my GP after more or less pleading with him for a home visit ( only ever had one in four years ) as he was trying to diagnose me over the phone which is normal these days , he finally agreed to call out and said he.was sorry as he could see how I'll I was and could hardly breathe with the pain , he prescribed me antibiotics and steroids for 7 days told me if I didn't feel any better in a couple of days I would probably have to go into hospital for intravenous treatment , thankfully after just two days I am feeling a little better so no hospital admission . Think you should be given stronger antibiotics and maybe a short course of steroids as they do work very quickly. I really hope you feel better soon and stamp your FEET at your GP 's it's worth it.

I know that Guila's original post was 5 years ago but wanted to share my experience in the hope that it may help others and I would people  not to wait and to seek medical assistance early. About 4 and half years ago I became very ill- extremely exhausted with terrible body aches that kept me awake at night. As I was on holidays interstate I delayed seeing a doctor for more then a week thinking I was coming down with a virus and it would eventually go away. I took painkillers and just tried to keep going- I learned I was masking the effects of my illness by doing this. It was summer however in my part of the world and flus and colds would have been unusual at that time of year. By the time I arrived home it was Christmas and my local gp was unavailable.  I was feeling so bad I made the decision to go to the hospital. On the way to the hospital I noticed that my cough was producing a brown flem (I later learned the brown colour is caused by blood from the lungs). I was diagnosed fairly quickly with bacterial pneumonia which can be life threatening and in my case was as I found out later that I had also developed sepsis, a complication of bacterial pneumonia- my organs were apparently shutting down and I was in septic shock. I had an extremely high temperature but was feeling very cold and my heart rate had slowed to a dangerous point. When I struggled to breathe I was asked for permission to be prepared for ICU and life support- this meant an induced coma and intubation. I was in my early 40s, had been fairly healthy and with no obvious risk factors but my body had not fought off a bacteria that usually would not have been a problem. I spent about four days in ICU and was told my condition was very precarious initially. I was in hospital a further three weeks  and was readmitted soon  after discharge with pleuritic effusion- a complication of pneumonia. This felt like I had been punched in the lower right hand side of my rib cage- this may be the condition some of you are describing as feeling like you've pulled a muscle.

I just want to warn people not to hesitate in seeking medical assistance and to go back to their doctor if their condition isn't getting any better. I was really lucky- if my husband had allowed me to just lay on my bed and try to go to sleep like I wanted to the day I arrived back home from my holiday, i would have gone into heart failure and died. I had no idea I was as sick as I was and my condition deteriorated extremely quickly. If you are sick and feeling worse then normal and aching badly, exhausted to the point where you feel unable to continue your normal activity and you have a productive cough (brown or green) seek medical advice immediately. Also tell those around you and make sure they are checking in with you regularly. 

I am well today but it took many months to feel normal again. My treatment was extremely invasive and probably could have been avoided if I had sought medical attention at an earlier point. Shannon

 

Hi ,I do hope you are feeling better now and you have not been left with any bad after affects , I had plurisy and phumonia back in early June and I was put on intibiotics and steroids but it's now eight weeks since being so ill and I've never fully recovered I've just been diagnosed with COPD and have an appointment tomorrow with the nurse so just waiting to get the outcome of it all, but I've definitely not really recovered fully since June, so as you said seek medical attention straight away. Good luck.

Sounds like you need to go to a lung specialist. I had pneumonia in May stayed in hospital for a week my left lung was so infected rays could not see threw the flim it took a MRI after all the dog and pony show they done I got out and felt like a new man.I lost my voice after I got home and now I have to whisper and the I give out of breath..they saying it's GERD acid reflux.Mayne we will both get answers on here Guilda!

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I'm in exactly the same position as you ..I'm losing money not being able to work I feel so ill and helpless..I'm on day 4 of my 500 mg clarithromycinema tablets...wondering when they are going to start working .or what to even do next as I've been to doctors twice then to walk in clinic...by the way the doctor at the walk in clinic gave me the best checkover and diagnosed pleurisy in my right side..I got more info off him then my own doctor..it's Xmas soon and I'm hoping so much this will go I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy