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Morning dianosisisalie;   I am sorry as you are really sounding very unwell, as I can't understand all that you are saying???   I TBronhink that you are saying that you Started with the Wheezing/chest problems, and one doc  felt you may have the onset of Pnuemonia.....did she order any chest x-rays to confirm/diagnose this??    Also, from your second input, have you been bitten by ?your bird or a wild bird? and did this happen before the onset of chest problems, or after?   And you say that you "are Purple today"....is that from where the bird bit you?  or your overall colour (as if you are not getting enough oxygen/do you feel that the Purple colour is from the bird bite.....an overall infection from a Virus ???)......are you feeling any better today??     I am concerned as it Could be quite a few things occuring.....if your "wheeze" is getting worse, and the colour is related to this, then I feel that you do need to see a "good" doctor.....and perhaps don't mention your Fibro up front......just tell them re your Asthma, and your Wheeze/difficulty breathing......???.........Bron

Yes, a few weeks ago I began wheezing and the general primrary doctorsaw me and did nothing. Now I have beecame promotely worse and couldn't get in to his office so I had to go to the Convient Care where they thought it was pneaumonia. No they didn't do any exrays. Gave me medicine that didn;t word (day7). I run and own a bird rescue, it is my responsibility that certain birds get their independent time with a human for 60 minutes a day. I have the ones who have severe behavior problems and therefore when I am weak or shaky they can fewel it and it alerts them in to biting me. Yes, the bite is pretty purple. Thishappened about day5 of medicine.

 

O' deb, how scary, thanks for the info..gentle hugs, hope your feeling better now..be blessed..have a lovely day...:-) xxx

Hi Deb; thankyou. Yes, it does amaze me how complacent some GP's are.....even though I do appreciate the help that I get from my GP, it does amuse me (for a better, lesser term); that I, too, have to remind him of my need to have blood checks etc......couldn't tell you when I last had my BP taken..............so am pleased that you agree that a "guess at a diagnosis" is a bit too much.....surely it's not tooo much trouble, if the dr suggested Pnuemonia,  to follow through with x-rays to show if there is any consolidation on the lung....and do bloods to find if there is another cause for the "feeling of not being well/weak etc"........hoping you are doing ok today, Deb?..............Bron

I had an uncle whom died a couple of years back.  He had been back and further to his regular GP, who again ignored my uncle when he expressed concerns about himself.  He hadn't felt very well for quite a while, he progressively got worse and did get quite concerned for himself.  several trips to his doctor was a waste of time.  He was being treated like a hyperchondriac and got nowhere!   He became so worried that he decided to take himself off to the A & E dept of our local public hospital where they actually admitted him on the spot into the 'Critical Ward'...  and two nights later he died.   

He could have been treated a lot earlier and also diagnosed with what the condition was, that intially had triggered the pnuemonia, BUT the GP was so dam slack, and lazy with my Uncles health, and treated him as if he were a Hyperchondriac.

We have NO recourse here really..  You can lay complaints at the door of the Medical Council but that is a futile waste of effort, ink and paper.  The Medical Council is there only to serve it's members, and to protect them legally.  So doctor/s who fall into 'a Foul situation' are not punished or made to go back to visit Medical School to remind them of the Oath they Swore to uphold...  and to brush up on doctoring diagnostics etc.  NO, NO  Such Thing Exists Here...  They can be solely responsible for the death of someone because of negligence and 'nothing comes of it', unless the dead person was a well known NZ figure, celebrity maybe!  and family lay complaints and use the Media..  Ordinary Joe Bloggs would be swept under the carpet.. So it is a sad state of affairs here, especially for our Med to Low income earners who cannot afford to keep or ever have good 'Health Insurance cover'.  

So many different types of Pnuemonia, bought on by different instigators.   Fungal Pnuemonia, Bacterial and Viral instigators and of course the Elderly are prone to Pnuemononia after trauma/surgery and ill health.  

Interesting that you were given an injection to ward off pnuemonia, I haven't ever heard of that.  Weither they do have that here in NZ I'm not sure (?).  Given our government cut backs over the years on Health, I'd doubt that luxury would be available here unless someone paid privately for it.  Pleased to hear your all fine.

(I also suffered with Asthma, chronically since a very young age, basically born struggling with it apparently. 

After my MVA (Car accident) I was later put on Tramadol for Pain, as it works in the spine first the out to the rest of the body.

About 8 months - 14 months I began to notice a difference, far less issues with my asthma, till I realised it had basically subsided to zero asthma issues.  Till this day I have very, very rarely had to use an inhaler. although with any respiratory infections or flues that sit on the chest..  'that is certainly' an situation that becomes chronic.

I often feel that my heart wouldn't take much more punishment especially under load of a bad chest infection etc...bringing on the very difficult to breathe issues.  

Thanks.I  I got a pneaumonia shot.    I am not sure what it is >

I get a pneumonia shot every five years and a flu shot yearly...we are compromised....my dr said it was a nesessity..:-)

Very interesting diagnosisisalie (did I spell that right!? haha) and Christine, I am going to ask when I am back home if there is such a thing available here in NZ as a Pneumonia Injection.  We do have the usual Flu jabs yearly, I get mine two yearly, by choice.  We currently do have a very serious Flue strain here in NZ that has reoccured and it's putting our local hospitals under a lot of pressure.  We have Beds in the corridors now in some hospitals.  Pretty bad aye!  Has been the odd death I hear to...  It's hitting the young, the old and the compromised folk hard!

I have been having the pneumonia shots for a long time now originally because I get bad asthma....and the dic listed me to have them..then when I was diagnosed with Fibro he said I was compromised..because I had lie immunity...my flu shots are for a  different  strain if flu each year..

Mmm...sorry....the phone rang and I posted before I checked..

=low immunity not lie....and dic???not doc... Be blessed...have a lovely day..:-) xxx

Sorry to hear that, thisis the first time I went with the pneumonia shot or any really. I am sort of against them. I went with it this year. Florida