I was diagnosed with this on Saturday. I had been to the Dr and given antibiotics on Thursday, after my current cough/cold started to feel more chesty and I passed out on Wednesday evening (that was hugely embaressing as I was at the filming for TOTP at the time and they stopped the musc for me!)
On the Friday the back/chest pain started and was bad enough for me to call the docs on Saturday, when pleurisy ws diagnosed. Was advised to continue with antibiotics and given some better pain relief.
On Monday my breathing became quite difficult and I felt faint all the time, even when lying down. I called my mum, who called the GP ( I was waiting for a call back) to be told they were al in a meeting for a few hours, so she called an ambulance. My BP was 181/108 (think mostly due to panic), breathe heavy with ketones and quite short of breathe and in pain. I was taken in and discharged a little later with further antibiotics.
I am manageing to be awake for no more than 6-8 hours/24, sometimes only 4 hours.
The cough and cold that this started with is definitely easing by the day, but the pain is not. I am also still unable to eat. When I do eat I tend to vomit it all back. I have not eaten anything resembling a meal since Thursday. My BMs have actually not been bad for me, between 6-11. But ketones remained at 4+ and the weigt is falling off, even my pants are baggy!
I have looked online but can't really find when I should expect things to get much better. I don't want to be going back to my GP if this is normal for pleurisy, but am also unsure how long I can keep going without eating.
To be honest, I have no idea what to do with myself, i have never had anything like this and am at home all day on my own, left to wallow.
On the Friday the back/chest pain started and was bad enough for me to call the docs on Saturday, when pleurisy ws diagnosed. Was advised to continue with antibiotics and given some better pain relief.
On Monday my breathing became quite difficult and I felt faint all the time, even when lying down. I called my mum, who called the GP ( I was waiting for a call back) to be told they were al in a meeting for a few hours, so she called an ambulance. My BP was 181/108 (think mostly due to panic), breathe heavy with ketones and quite short of breathe and in pain. I was taken in and discharged a little later with further antibiotics.
I am manageing to be awake for no more than 6-8 hours/24, sometimes only 4 hours.
The cough and cold that this started with is definitely easing by the day, but the pain is not. I am also still unable to eat. When I do eat I tend to vomit it all back. I have not eaten anything resembling a meal since Thursday. My BMs have actually not been bad for me, between 6-11. But ketones remained at 4+ and the weigt is falling off, even my pants are baggy!
I have looked online but can't really find when I should expect things to get much better. I don't want to be going back to my GP if this is normal for pleurisy, but am also unsure how long I can keep going without eating.
To be honest, I have no idea what to do with myself, i have never had anything like this and am at home all day on my own, left to wallow.
