Back pain/ infection

[RavenDove]

I have been diagnosed with pleurisy for the 2nd time. I have pain in my back at the bottom of my right lung. The doctors have given me amoxicillin the weakest antibiotic. It hasn’t worked and my pain is worse. Has anyone else had an infection and pain in the bottom of the lung that is like being stabbed in the back?

[Maricopa]

Yes and amoxicillin didn’t help!

[peege]

1st time I had pleurisy I had 2 weeks of amoxicillin, it didn't work either and I also had a chronic chest infection at the time. I have refused amoxicillin for over 7 years. I hope you'll go back to the gp to aske for a better antibiotic. Dont be fobbed off......my pain was always lower right in the front. Yes, its a fierce stabbing pain on moving or breathing. Its diagnosed properly through a stethoscope.

[Spacecat1]

Sorry not feeling welly mums just got over pleurisy luckily on the mend.Ask gp for stronger antibiotic amoxicillin not good. I have co amoxiclav so far for chest infection tion been you never might work for you. Take care

[Lfcpremier]

I was given Ciprofloxacin for pleurisy.. 1 a day for ten days. Worked well though I did get muscle pain & stopped at day 9.

[COPD123491]

Hi

He probably gave it to you because it is the cheapest. Ask about Doxycycline as I have found it to much more effective than amoxicillin.

Good luck.

Kevin

[shouty in reply to COPD123491]

Agree Doxycycline is best. Amoxycillin just not strong enough Co Amoxiclav is another form of Amoxil but with added agent that helps to break through the clever little bug's cell membrane that it has to evolved to protect itself from attack from medicine but is still the same penicillin

[Carnut]

I think you should go back to your GP , i had amoxicillin in the past and it worked fine except for one time when I had a different antibiotic - sorry I can't recall its name - plus a course of steroids which did the trick.Sorry I can't be more help 😊

[Rostom]

Poor you!

I had Pleurisy in the summer (possibly Covid related as I had had very mild Covid and tested positive a week or two before).

I was told by my GP during a telephone consultation to go to A and E where I was put on a drip of Amoxicillin for an hour or two then discharged with Amoxicillin capsules. This did clear my infection, however I too think that Doxycycline can often be better for chests than Amoxicillin.

If your Amoxicillin is not working after three or four days, do contact your GP again. Pleurisy, as you are finding out, is very painful and you need the right treatment now

Hope that you feel better very soon.

[Stitcher48]

Ravendove,I'm afraid that I dont think amoxicillin is working for you and I'd advice going back to your gp,which I know in these times is difficult ,I'd an awful urinary tract infection for a couple of years and in september it was really awful but I couldnt get to see a gp,I'd a high temperature for weeks and had been on various antibiotics but I'd become so I'll I didnt realise that I had serious chest infection too,I'd been put on an antibiotic called distaclor by a nurse practitioner as she could not prescribe the usual antibiotic co amoxiclav that I'd been taking for the unit's,I had an awful reaction to the distaclor(I think that was the name) but I was just getting much sicker and then at beginning of October I was found by my carer with no sign of life,I'd had a type 2 respiratory failure and came round 4 days later in intensive care covid bed,I was more frightened of being told I was on the covid ward than that I'd almost died and it had been a very close call,it was 48 hours of the staff trying to save my life ,because I have type 2 respiratory failure I've been using non invasive life support for 12 years while I sleep but I just wasnt getting enough hours on it and carbon dioxide had dangerously built up,so now after 12 years of 24 hour oxygen therapy I have to stay off it while still though not during sleep and 6 litres mobilising,if I'm honest I'm afraid to sleep now as this has happened before,but I'm also so angry as I find it so difficult to leave the house,I have to be well prepared and the receptionists in my gp surgery gave no consideration for my poor mobility and even just getting to speak over the phone to a gp was night on impossible ,I feel so angry as if I'd been seen by a gp earlier the chest infection may have been caught,I cant cough so it's hard to tell as my breathing is so poor when something is wrong,I used to be very good at spotting trouble early on but I am finding it much more difficult,very lonely as I only have 3 very short care calls a day,right now I feel so lost and that once I was so in control of my care and on top of problems that came up,I am feeling so desperately lost and alone right now with absolutely nowhere to turn as the hospital seems to have shut down as have my gp surgery with only telephone calls to advice you,I'd been sending my urine samples directly to hospital labs by taxi,so I had some control with that but I cant sound my own chest as it's so bad I dont know if I'll ever be able to tell when it's got critical again ,which is just very scary and I feel like I've had my share of miracles now as I've been brought back from the brink so many times now,I must be running out of miracles,and this christmas I'd just wish I could sleep without being afraid I wont wake up again,its the danger of getting up in the middle of the night to use the loo and falling asleep or passing out without my non invasive ventilator on and the terrible fear of covid as I know I'd not survive it,its such a frightening year since January I've been out just twice,I think I'm going slightly mad with loneliness and the wish to go out is so great but the fear of bumping into someone with covid is far greater,now wishing and praying I wont be waiting too much longer and praying next year will be better for everyone, but I must say amoxicillin depending on the strength may not be what you need,but you must try to see your GP,if your symptoms are not going it isn't working for you,but I am not a doctor so please go and get checked again if you can, ❤

[Alberta56 in reply to Stitcher48]

You really have had a dreadful time. Please keep in touch on this forum. A lot of people here will empathise with your experiences- been there, done it. Ibelieve clinically vulnerable people can ask for an NHS volunteer responder to phone for a chat every week to counter the loneliness. The address to contact on the government's last letter is https;//gov.uk/coronavirus-shieldin.... I tried it to get my medication delivered and found it somewhat inefficient, but it got there in the end. They also put me in touch with a nice lady at the local Council whose brief is to help shielding/vulnerable people. Hope this helps. Best wishes, Alberta.

[Patk1 in reply to Stitcher48]

Hello stitcher48. Youve had a rough time.if u need to speak to dr,ring surgery & do say u need a callback today.You sound very low. Please ring gp and tell them.

Do u have paperwork re advice for clinically extremely vulnerable as there should be a tel number for local council support team? Please ring them too.

We are here 4u too so please do stay in touch.

I too have advanced type 2 ventilatory failure and niv. Id suggest when u wake at night,sit for a cpl of mins before getting up to loo,have a drink,and cpl of deep slow breaths. Xx

[Twotabbies]

Hi, I used to get pleurisy regularly with chest infections until I had the pneumococcal vaccine. I've not had it since. Have you had it? Won't help now but possibly for future infections.

[Alberta56]

Receptionists have a lot to answer for- at least some of them do. Everyone's right- different people need different anti biotics. You need to go back to your doctor. Best wishes.