# Now I have pneumonia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993 "2007-08-17T21:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993/21 "2007-08-18T15:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] Ugh, I hate that “walking pneumonia” moniker. [/QUOTE] As long as you can avoid also getting the Boogie-Woogie Flu you should be okay. [QUOTE=Lightray] Also, if you can’t sleep because your back aches (from fluid-filled lungs pressing against your ribcage; it sucks), try propping yourself up in bed so you’re half-sitting. I found it relieves the discomfort enough for you to fall asleep for a bit. [/QUOTE] It was the chest and back pain and not the recurring high fever that finally sent me to the doctor. Like I said, I think I cooked a few brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993/22 "2007-08-18T17:31:16Z")
Oho-and then there is the pulmonologist who told me that I could go back to work, but to do nothing “strenuous”. I told him I was a staff nurse. He repeated that I could go back to work. I insisted that I stay off week for one week. He wrote me a script for that, almost rolling his eyes at it\*. I had a follow up with him 3 weeks later. I told him I was still quite fatigued and napping, but no more night coughing. I told him I was concerned. He told me my fatigue was caused by my depression (of which he knows nothing, but knows I’m on Lexapro). I almost told him to stick to the lungs and not stray into areas he knows fuckall about. Grrr. I finally felt well again last week. I had pnuemonia in June. It’s not that I felt all summer as badly as I did in June, but I still lacked energy and needed a nap every other day. \*proving to me and to every other nurse I’ve told this story to that he has no clue what nurses do, but that’s another thread. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993/23 "2007-08-18T17:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] As long as you can avoid also getting the Boogie-Woogie Flu you should be okay. [/QUOTE] That and Cat Scratch Fever. (Which is real, BTW, and I’ve had that, too.) ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993/24 "2007-08-18T21:41:38Z")
First time today I’ve felt up to posting anything. I appreciate the good wishes and to those of you who recommend rest, you are really on to something. Walking ten feet is about all I’ve been capable of; if I could find a place to sleep in the bathroom, I just might do it. I don’t think I’ve slept this much since I was a child----I like it, in a way but I don’t like the feeling of utter weakness that I’ve got. Oh, well, this too, shall pass or so they say. Thanks for the good wishes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-have-pneumonia/415993.md?page=1)