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juszczec

New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Nov 2006
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Location: Akon, Ohio
Pneumonia
Posted: 11-21-06 10:23am

Hi folks

ok. Its pneumonia. I'm responding well to the antibiotics and I feel a whole lot better than last week.

I had a follow up with the dr yesterday and he told me I am now at greater risk for getting pneumonia again!

Just a little history:

1st bout age 14, 2 weeks in hospital
this bout - age 39, no hospital stay needed

he said the healed lung tissue is more susceptible to infection than lung tissue that was never infected.

My question is, how much more susecptible? Are there any statistics?

Also, what precautions do I have to take? We talked about a flu shot and a pneumonia shot and i'm going to get both of those.

We discussed deep breathing exercises - 10 deep breaths every hour and i'm doing that.

But the bottom line is, I want to find out everything I can do to prevent this from happening again.

Mark
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