Please help , viral infection now chest infection?

can u help me, or av u got the horrible virus.it started on monday wiv a cough,woke in the nite wiv a burning pain in my chest and the top ov my back,phoned the doc and e sed its a viral infection,the pain wen i cough is very bad,went back to gp yesterday and e sed iv now got a chest infection, on antibiotics and pain killers im also asthmatic ,iv never had pain like this befor it hurts wen i eat or drink and the pain in my back is bad.i av to sleep sat up and to me the doctors just dont care anymore.

I sympathise with you, both my wife and myself had this problem some years ago
,I too has to push the doctors for help as, at the time there was an increase in cases of flue, they assumed it was that,
When I finally got the doctor to attend he nearly dropped through the floor when he saw our condition, he prescribed medicine we had to take three times a day that cleared it, he told me afterwards that he was undecided about admitting my wife into hospital.
Keep pushing if no joy, ring hospital direct ask them for help.

i too used to get regulat chest infections at least once a year, till i started swallowing small pieces of garlic once in a while, now i hardly get it, i also eat a lot of fruit, vitamin c

if it is not getting better and your gp doesnt care you might need to go to the a&e

i hope you feel better soon hun

could be hiatus hernia

if its gets so bad, maybe you should phone for the ambulance.?

drink a cup of hot water with a good squeeze of fresh lemon, a teaspoonfull of honey and a big piece of chopped root ginger to bring up all the junk in your lungs.

also if you can take it, you can add a 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper to this firey drink and it makes it work even quicker and stronger.

get well soon ;-)

Hi Miss J
Join the club I started last week and it's turned into Pleurisy, Hospitals, x-rays, penicillin etc, I get relief from placing a hot water bottle on my chest the other thing that helps is when you go to bed, lay on two pillows so you're at an angle to the bed, this'll stop the mucus from trying to run back into your throat oh and try not to cough swallow instead or you'll irritate your throat. get well soon X.
Ray. West York's. U.K.

I know how you feel. I've got some kind of viral flu (self-diagnosed from the symptoms!) My nose is totally red from blowing it. Painful throat, horrendous cough that just doesn't stop. My cough is more bronchial but I'm also sleeping sat up.

I guess there's a lot of it around at the moment. I'm using paracetamol, drinking hot ribena, hot water, soup.

I guess you just have to let it take it's course. Get lots of rest, vitamin c tablets, satsumas. Hopefully we'll get better soon! Best Wishes.

Take yourself to casualty and say you have chest pains. they are obliged to check you out properly

What do you actually expect anyone to say. Asthmatics get chesty as a result of their asthma being triggered by the viral illness, they get no more chest infections than non-asthmatics do. One could include getting chesty with colds in the description of asthma! The viral illness itself cannot be treated, and if the asthma is only triggered to the first level, cough only, rather than wheeze or breathlessness, it can't really be treated either. Either way, antibiotics will never really help asthma. Your doctor may not be unsympathetic, he is perhaps just aware that there is little that can be done.

you have probably eaten someting which has got in to your trachea and your bronchi. i would advise talking to your doctor. you may just have an inflmed trachea. do you have asthma because if so when you become wheezy the trachea in your throat swells up and this may have been the case and also do you smoke. again if so then you may have got mucus in your lungs due to the paralysis of the cilia cells and there fore you may have been coughing constantly and therefore you may have bronchitis and this may cause the swelling of you trachea or brinchi. i'm only 13 and i know all of this lol