Pneumonia- how quick will I recover

It won't be that quick I'm afraid.

Mrs_oab has it most winters, often twice.

Usually takes a week of being on a drip, and you'll feel iffy and a bit weak for a week after that.  But I think it depends on age. I first got it sleeping rough down south as a 16yr old, then again when i was in my mid 20's and this latter bout went too far and i ended up in a delirious state, but after hospital drip ect I came round pretty quick.

If you are bad enough to be in hospital then there could be damage to your lungs that will take weeks / months to recover from

I’m my early 40’s I got bad Pneumonia and it took me a year or so to get over it.

First few months were horrible. Couldn’t go out in cold air, exercise was difficult if not impossible.

Just take it easy and recover properly, rushing will slow you down

I had aspiration pneumonia a couple of years back, luckily no infection but three days rest in hospital with an oxygen bottle by my side
I felt not too bad but oxygen in the blood was low . Infection in lungs will probably be much more serious

Oh jeez

My wife who is a physician quotes people a week’s recovery for every ten years of life following a pneumonia.

Anyone who comes to me (intensive care doc) is probably going to be longer.

Yeah it's a nasty experience, take your time getting better and don't push it. I had a bout about 12 years ago - avoided hospital but was advised extremely strongly to do SFA for at least 2 weeks and then very slowly start to move about. They weren't joking, I was utterly scalped by it. I foolishly went on a skiing trip soon after - I managed, just. But I was utterly buggered and really shouldn't have gone.

Take time out and just focus on relaxing and keeping warm

ps when they said do SFA they meant do nothing, absolutely nothing. Not a little bobble round the woods type of nothing, an actual stay in, sit on the sofa nothing!

Bless you OP. Just take it easy. I’m laid up in misery with flu right now but can’t imagine what pneumonia must be like.

Thanks Jambourgie, the drugs do work luckily.

Spring’s going to be great though. Warm hugs ‘till then.

A retired friend has gifted me his Cotic gravel bike rolling chasis (he still has a winter bike and a titanium gravel bike etc and a best bike or two), so I have time to build it up, I love a gentle bike build.
He has kept it so well after thousands of miles of all weather commuting I would expect it to be a little worn- it’s amazing.

Yep, another here. Mild pneumonia on one side only, about ten years ago. Even with that I couldn't do much more than a flight of stairs without needing a sit down.

It took about 4 weeks before I could do anything meaningful on the bike, and a while longer to be able to push hard.

Oh man, I’m a fat bastard as it is.

Mild pneumonia

Thats actually quite funny as mild can become serious if untreated and then fatal. Much like hypothermia. With hypothermia theres 2 types. Mild and fatal, and mild then develops into the fatal kind. 😆

Granted, modern medicine is probably different now than from 50 years ago, but it killed my grandfather before I was born. Please be careful.

I’m sorry to hear that Cougar, it was pretty bad, I didn’t get into the doctors room, he came out to the waiting room, stuck me on oxygen and called the ambulance.
The Horton in Banbury were amazing, I was on a ward and off permanent oxygen 10 hours later.
Anyway I’m home now, and tied to lie down which was impossible.
My next question is how long before upright sleeping starts to be reduced.

I meant as in non hospitalised.... didn't feel mild at the time. I had to have a chest x-ray a few years later for a cough that wouldn't go away and the evidence was still visible and I swear I can 'feel' it if taking deep breath on a cold day, it somehow doesn't feel quite as elastic

Oh man, I’m a fat bastard as it is.

the hospital grub should sort that out!

You are presumably relatively young, fit and healthy normally so statistically will do better than many but I’d be pretty surprised if a case was bad enough to warrant hospital in the 2022 NHS and you were riding the bike at all within 4 weeks of discharge.  In your shoes I’d be setting my aspirations on getting home this week - take it easy pneumonia kills even young, normally healthy people, so you want to recover gently to avoid relapsing - I suspect you don’t want to be in ITU at the end of Jan!

They sent me home yesterday, which I’m happy with. I got an O2 meter and it’s 94-96.
Coughing fits every few minutes but not constant, but it does hurt. The stuff I’m coughing up is clear now.
Slept 3 hrs got up for four, then got another 4, so that’s loads for me lately.
It’s 10.30 and I’m bored as flip already.

The hospital food was actually really good, as in better than a supermarket ready meal, with a little soup starter and frankly very good desert.

Second day without any pharmaceutical assistance and it feels like the recovery really begins. Chest is hurting, and I’m short of breath. Balls

Now my kidneys are painful (if lower R side is kidneys) just above belt line.
Merry Christmas

Its boxset time for you.

Took me a couple of months before I felt anything like 'normal' again. Don't try to do too much too soon.

Sending recovery vibes.

Had two days at work, now in bed again with sore chest and a cough and short of breath. I don’t do anything strenuous but I’m on feet all day in air conditioned atmosphere talking a lot.
Not due back in till Sunday so hopefully will be okay.
Unfortunately went self employed in November so burning through cash reserves being off work. Previously had two weeks off sick in total in about 25 years.