General Chat

Yes, in 2003, I got a severe chest pains, and found it hard to breathe. I got rushed into hospital, where I got put on pure oxygen, and got some pain killers. The funny (If you can say that) is that I'd just been on holiday, and this was when the SARS Virus was about (In it's later stages) and when I told them, the nurses back away! lol. Turned out, it was a severe chest infection, which has caused part of the lining in my lower left lung to swell, hence why it was so hard to breath.

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lol Paul, must have been painful though.

last year i went into hospital with cellilitis and whilst in hosptial i had developed septicaemia, and they managed to catch it in time

Yep too 50% of both lungs collapsing struggling to breath and the pain is like an iron bar being forced though your chest very slowly Paul

Dot, that's lucky Paul, cripes!

I haven't thank goodness but husband had a lung collapse when he was in his 20s, taken into hospital where he stayed for 2 weeks sleeping sitting up. It healed itself though. Hi Lucia, how's the studying going? Ann glos

Hi Lucia, No been lucky, touch wood!!! Nice to see you back on the boards How is your revision going? Hope you are doing alright with them. James

Fortunately - NO !! :O)

Hello Ann and James, the studying is going well. Thank you... :-) just having a little break! lol :-)

I was talking to my parents last week. My dad told me that when I was a baby I was very seriously ill and almost died. Despite bad odds I managed to survive. I hadn't known that. I was surprised.

had an ectopic pregnancy 19yrs ago. It took three hospital admissions before they got the diagnosis correct. After op, I was in hospital for 10 days, they couldn't get my temperature down due to severe infection. I had an ovary and fallopian tube removed, but 18 months later I gave birth to a healthy daughter wihout any complications. Just glad they got it right in the end.

I think I have one now! I am waiting for a scan on Thursday but my symptoms are getting worse. The Dr thinks its my gall bladder but the pain is no longer localised to that area and I am suffering with shortness of breath and raised blood pressure lol Ain't life grand!!! Julie xxx

Mine is nothing compared to yours.....I was seriously ill with Glandular Fever, when I was Fifty,,,,,It was not diagnosed for six weeks and I had been given the wrongmedicines, couldn't swallow,Puffed up.......Usually it is teenagers who get it,so they were confused when someone my age had it...I still get relapses, ten years later........

Good luck Julie :-)

Julie, that sounds awful. Give the doctor a ring, just to check gall stones would cause these symptoms

Thanks Lucia, I'm not half as worried as hubby! Julie xxx

oh dear Polly Anna. Someone I know had glandular fever and not so good. It really wore him down.

Julie, you're welcome :-)