@blm1007blm1007 Hi - yes, had pneumonia many times. Always came down with severe symptoms, usually in correlation with influenza and sought help right away. Mostly got over it readily with antibiotics, except one time when I was about 53, they said, "you'll fight this off on your own - it's the crud circulating and it'll take several weeks". Well, that neglect cost me a lot of lung damage.
I was never hospitalized until this year - two times, back to back, plus sepsis. They let me out too soon, and the oral antibiotics I was discharged with were not killing the bacteria, so back again. That's what sent me to the pulmonologist and got me on the big 3 and Brinsupri. But I'm still infected, so I took it upon myself to go to Mayo - appointment in Nov. Every day is a challenge of some kind.