LUNG PAIN AFTER PNEUMONIA

hello. when pneumonia is present, pleuritic chest pain is present. pathogens may accumulate in your lung parechymas, they may infect your pleura (lining of your lungs) leading to inflammation. inflammation may cause nerve endings to signal signal to your brain making it perceived as "pain" stimuli. pain may worsen when coughing, breathing & exertion. pain medication might help but risks are dependence to drug.

OMG i have been suffering with left lung pain for a long time... it comes and goes.... i have had pneumonia at least 5 times and suspected it was scare tissue... my pain starts at night and is more severe when i lay down ..adjusting positions does not help.... i have a hard time sleeping through the pain also.... i would like answers also.... what makes it flare up...? i am not sick at all so it seems strange that i have the pain...

Hi, I too was in hospital ...tho i dnt know for how long as i cnt remember,tho i was told a week.and have many health problems since...head pain..ongoing terrible pain in my right chest/lung :-( also having memory problems. My doctor too refused to give me any chest exrays,tho on my third head scan... Hey keep smiling lil fighter :-D tc

hi everyone, i too suffered pneumonia for 1 year now. i was afraid i had tuberculosis because i saw blood streak in my sputum, chestpain, fever etc. i was in the stage of denial so i did not seek medical attention/care because i was shy knowing its communicable. i realized i have to go to the doctor for treatment so i wont suffer anymore..i was diagnosed of having bilateral pneumonia when an x ray done. Augmentin and loxeva for 7days was prescribed to me.its almost one month now and i think im recovering but still experiencing periods of pain and fatigue. hope i can recover soon.

hi, i had pneumonia last year around october 10th 2009. Last year at that time i was feeling severe chest pains. during this the swine flu was around so doctors were hesitant to get me in, after i finally said enough i went down to emergency due to extreme shortness of breath after just getting up to go to the bathroom. After that wait they got x-rays and they found that my lungs were both intirelly filled with pneumonia, so after showing me this they admited me to the hospital and got me on antibiotics and high flow (big amount of oxygen flow). After a few days of being in the hospital i got discharged to my house and i was on bed rest for almost a week. Since then i have seen pulmonologists for shortness of breath and major pains in the winter (or cold wheather) when i take a deep breathe. they have said many things for one my diaphragm is 2 inches to high because of the pneumonia which is most of the pain then i have scarring which is the other reason for pain. so if you have those symptoms i would ask to get an x-ray/ct scan to see for diaphragm issues or scarring. as those would explain your pain. As usual any form of exercise helps, even though it hurts and i know it does, try your best to fight through it. I hope this helps! :-D

Hi I was diagnosed with pneumonia 6 weeks ago. I like many of you have chest pain when i cough even though my xrays are normal and i am still very tired. I have two questions: 1. Once you have pneumonia are you more prone to get it again 2. I am travelling by plane next week to a place that is fairly high in altitude. does anyone know if that is going to be a potential problem

i had bacterial pneumonia back in february 2009. to this date i still suffer with breathing problems and lung pain where the first blood clot formed in my right lung. i had two pulmonary embolisms, (emboli??) one in each lung. i have had xrays and my lungs are now clear, i have had a breathing test with good results. my blood oxygen is great. i have times i can breathe but dont feel like iam getting any of the air i breathe in. at times it horrifying and i feel light headed, sometimes dizzy, with head rushes. i have been to the emergency room many times because my right lung hurts and i feel like iam not getting any air. iam still on blood thinners and still have edema and blood clots in my left leg. my pulmonologist says i may have had a clot in my spine and that may be the reason for the breathing difficulties. but not known if there is anyway to test or fix the problem. iam unemployed now as a result of illness, and cannot afford further treatment other than going to the clinic to monitor my blood viscosity. and get refills on blood thinners. nothing available to me for pain unless i go to pain management and pay them a fortune which i cannot afford due to being unemployed and rasing kids. i dont know what to do..... i just want to be able to breathe again and go to work. any ideas? please iam desperate!!!!

Hi, are you on steroids? Feel free to email me. I'm 30 year old lady from Wales, UK, with on going health problems, (most recently being pneumonia).I felt OK after coming home from hospital, but the tightness in my chest has come back again now. Hoping it's not a relapse. Good luck everyone x

Hi There, 3 yrs ago, when I was 36, I had pneumonia which turned into empyema. It meant my lungs were filled with gunk on the inside and around the outside. I did go to the Dr but was told it was the flu. The next day I couldn't breathe very well and we called an ambulance. The 1st ambulance officer said its probably just the flu, deal with it. Luckily the other officer decided we called for a reason and they took me to hospital. In hospital my body started to shut down and I was put in a coma early the next morning. luckily I didn't listen to the 1st ambo officer. I was in ICU for a week in an induced coma and a drain was put in. The drain didn't work so i eventually I had surgery to clear my lungs and they removed a tiny bit off one lung. I was in hospital for about 3 or 4 weeks. I still get loads of chest infections (I'm getting over them alot quicker these days) and get a breathless feeling alot and aches in the lung area. I'm now taking symbicort which has helped with the breathing side of things. I still do feel like I get sick alot though since the pneumonia and often get really tired, more than I used. I have 3 young kids so sometimes it is hard to keep up with them. Every time i think i feel normal and race around doing lots of things I will inevitably end up sick a few day or a week later. Anyway, glad to still be here, obviously my time is not up yet. Sick of being sick though.

I also have lots of chest pain, ever since June 2005 when I was sick with the microplasm bacteria. The top of my left lung was eaten away and now scar tissue. I also have asthma so ever since I was little I had trouble with my lungs. Now its a battle to do anything cant even walk from one room to the next without getting winded or light headed. Seems everyone here that had it still has trouble like me. At the same time I had the infection it killed my thyroid, so wouldnt hurt you guys to have your TH level checked. My current breathing meds are Advair 500/50, combivent, singular, decongestants and nebulizer treatments. If there is some other medicine or something that might help let me know. If I breath cold air or lift something wrong or heavy I have wicked chest pain in the same place my infection was.

as it turned out i did have a clot in my spine, before it was finally disolved and gone it has done some damage. though iam now back to work, and doing better, i still have episodes where i cant breathe very well and pain in my spine that sinetimes is hard to deal with. but with Gods' help it is getting better little by little.

My reply is to everyone who posted here and who is reading this - especially the young mother of two, Quietly Depressed. Please to stay strong. Although I've never had pneumonia myself, my grandmother passed away from having pneumonia and a bad heart about 10 years ago at the age of 58 and now my best friend's mother has the same problems and she is in her early 40's. I really don't have an answer for how to cure it, and I'm not trying to provide empty hope to anyone who reads this, but I want you all to know that you have people in your lives that love and care for you. No matter what happens, stay strong and be positive, for yourselves and the people you love. I can't begin to imagine how hard it is to cope with pneumonia, the treatment and the pain, but I hope that my words give you some inspiration to you to keep fighting it. Always stay positive, no matter how bad or bleak things sound/seem. Sometimes doctors and medical professional give you news that may discourage you or make you feel depressed, but never let it get to you. Always stay strong and determined to get healthy again. Don't let even the smallest amount of bad news ever bring you down. And NEVER let anything make you wish you had succumb to pneumonia. I don't need to be able to see you in person to know you are all great people, if you weren't you would've never came here to open up to other and tried to seek help and support. You are all amazing people and no matter what happens, you should never EVER wish your life ended because of this. Keep fighting, stay strong, be positive. If not for yourself, do it for the people in your life that you love.I'm in my early 20's I only began to appreciate how much life has to offer after I had an accident recently which has impaired me. I never really appreciated what it meant to have someone, even a complete stranger, speak words of inspiration to me. Therefore I lend my support to anyone here who feels they need someone to talk to or just need to let out all of their frustration.  I know I can't really help and am a complete stranger, but I hope that in some way, even small, that I can help anyone here, just as people have helped me in my life. I'll be more than happy to pay it forward.Sincerely,Eyeglasses

i found out 3 months later (after the pulmonologist took another look at my xrays) that i had a clot in my spine, the pain is still here and i have trouble breathing from it.   have it checked and have them look further than just pleurisy. my pulmonologist called it pleurisy for three months before finally realizing that pleurisy doesnt last that long. if he had taken time to look at my xrays earlier we could have done something and lessened the damage that the clot did to my spine. iam now wondering if iam going to end up on disability at age 40.  thanks loads Dr. Balleiro....

Quote:  *UPDATE*  I have finally figured out how to make my lung pain go away! Without expensive medication. LMK if you want to learn more.

Turned out i have wegeners granulomatosis.  we found out by accidental testing.  doctors are resistant to testing for it because it is rare, so you have to be forceful about getting your doctor to test for it. i also had a clot that went to my spine. the pulmonologist i had was dead wrong and told me i had pleurisy for 3 months straight. then he finally admitted that he was wrong that pleurisy doesnt last 3 months. it's usually there for a week after pneumonia.   have you doctor do an "anca test"  this is one of the tests for wegeners granulomatosis, and it's fairly inexpensive.  you just have to get past your doctors stubborness.  if i hadnt been diagnosed with wegeners i would be dead right now.  it's worth having the test just to be sure. and it's your life!!! not the doctors life.  if your doctor wont test for wegeners find one that will. wegeners kills alot of people simply because the doctors either dont think about it or are too stubborn to test for it. it just involves a test tube of blood and sending it off.   the same amount of blood used for a rheumatoid arthritis test.  thats how they accidentally tested me.  the sent my blood off for an "ana" test (rheumatoid arthritis test) and the lab thought it read "anca"