diagnosed with having pleurisy december 26,2007 and it is now january 27,2008 the doctor in the er prescribed 600 mg ibuprofen and 30 mg tylenol3 im curious as to if this is suppose to last this long which im thinking it is ... i was told it was c aused by a viral infection... i just want this to go away .. i find when it is really cold in the mornings is when i have a hard time catching my breath ...the chest pain isnt as bad as before its quiet mild ... now its just the catching of my breath when its cold or rainy out ...and i also have been couging up a little bit of mucus .. is this normal ?..before i found out i had pleurisy i thought i was having severe panic attacks .. my heart was beating really fast ...so fast that the nurses said my heart was beating a 100 beats per minute ..scary stuff ...i did the ct scan ..chest xray and blood tests ...i found out the hard way if u dont have insurance the er isnt very helpful... the doctor came in after 7 hours of waiting and being hooked up to an iv and ekg etc... he walked in and told me yo uhave pleurisy handed me my dishcarge papers and walked out .. how sad ...seems like people get treated alot differently when u dont have the funds to pay millions of dollars for health insurance