Fifty Plus (50+) - I feel fine today!

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia. But I'm all better now. But I didn't even know what was wrong with me. It was a light case I'm sure, with just a tiny bit of lung crackling, but it had really punked me out for the last few weeks. No smiles on my face at all. I thought it was just a cold. But I'd been having a lot of dental work done, and I ended up with some kind of bacterial thing that was connected. Man, I felt horrible.

But Antibiotics are AMAZING! It's the morning of the third day and I woke up feeling like a new woman! What was the world like before antibiotics???

Aspirin is another wonder drug. If you don't take a lot of drugs, the effect of 2 aspirin for pain is absolutely astonishing! Thank you, whoever in history figured out about that tree bark.

So, now maybe I won't have to take 2 naps a day, and can get some stuff done* around this dog hair filled house!

So sorry to hear that you were feeling so poorly, solveg! Glad to hear that you're on the mend.

Hey Solveg, glad to know you're feeling better. I don't like to take drugs so when I take just 1 aspirin, it works (the body has its own amazing pain-killing ability, so I force it to use that first, and resort to a pill only when needed).

Be sure to take ALL of the antibiotics even when you feel terrific and think you can conquer any hill. Many doctors don't remind their patients to do that. You probably already know, but I just through I'd throw it in.

I wonder, if world goes through a "dark age" (which may be a very appropo name in this computer age), if anyone knows how to make antibiotics? It would sure be a good survival thing to know. I know penicillin is made from moldy bread, but that's about it.

I don't even know what tree to get aspirin bark from!


I don't like to take drugs so when I take just 1 aspirin, it works (the body has its own amazing pain-killing ability, so I force it to use that first, and resort to a pill only when needed).

My* body doesn't seem to have any natural pain killing ability! I think I got short changed in that department!

I wonder, if world goes through a "dark age" (which may be a very appropo name in this computer age), if anyone knows how to make antibiotics? It would sure be a good survival thing to know. I know penicillin is made from moldy bread, but that's about it.

I don't even know what tree to get aspirin bark from!



My* body doesn't seem to have any natural pain killing ability! I think I got short changed in that department!

Aspirin is made from salicylic acid, which is derived from the willow tree, Salix alba. Read more than you want to know here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylic_acid

Glad you're feeling better. Spring is right around the corner.

Not going to comment about these womens problems.

Let's hope you get a woman doctor then, when you get pneumonia! :D

I was wondering about your lack of posts on recent fun rides. Was just about to ask you about that.

A good friend of mine went into a check-up two weeks ago and they found that he had a partially collapsed lung! He had no idea. They think he's had it for several weeks.

I like aspirin too. It is a wonder drug. Works great for me, with no stomach problems.

Not going to comment about these womens problems.

I think you just did! :p

A good friend of mine went into a check-up two weeks ago and they found that he had a partially collapsed lung! He had no idea. They think he's had it for several weeks.

That is so weird!

Well, my morning enthusiasm has faded. After 3 hours of happiness, it's nap time. I'm tired of sleeping!

That is so weird!

Well, my morning enthusiasm has faded. After 3 hours of happiness, it's nap time. I'm tired of sleeping!

Take care of yourself, and drink plenty of fluids like your squirrel friend!

I was wondering where you were, too!

Road Fan

I think you just did! :p

TruF, you beat me to it!

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia.
ouch and ouch! Glad you are feeling better; it looks like you may need some schisandra berries to strengthen those lungs :)

http://www.newhope.com/nutritionsciencenews/NSN_backs/Jan_01/schisandra.cfm

Will just sneak in to say that is some good news... was wondering where you had gone to and it's good to hear that you are feeling better.

Now I'll just sneak out.

:)

But Antibiotics are AMAZING! It's the morning of the third day and I woke up feeling like a new woman! What was the world like before antibiotics???

I guess I've got one more day. Got an ear infection, apparently as a result of diving week before last, and it laid me out this week. I'm becoming a champeen napper!

Glad you're feeling better!

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia.

My pulmonologist just extracted my wisdom teeth :lol:... Sorry, had to say it.

Glad your feeling better.

Did I hear you say you felt like a pneu woman?

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia.

Next stop for Solveg is to go to her butcher for some tax advice!

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia.

Maybe it's just me, but I generally try to discourage my dentist from drilling quite that deep! Glad to hear you're feeling better.

Well, I'll tell ya, if it *was* pee-na-moan-ya, that's no joke.
Glad you're feeling better, for sure.
Keep taking those meds 'till they're all gone and don't be foolin' around with this. Really.

Argh har har! Very Funny!

I knew I had some weird kind of chest crackle, but I thought it was my sinuses and some kind of drainage. I have this strange sinus thing which will last me my whole life, so I just manage with it. And I knew I was getting abnormally chilled.

But I've had a bunch of dental work done, the last required oral surgery. The combination just took me down flat. But I just hate going to the doctor. Since the meds for the dental infection were the same for the chest stuff, it all worked out.

But I am in awe* of modern medicine... and this stuff isn't even so modern. I'm way more used to things like lingering colds and flus, so to be given some little pills and you feel better in 2 days? It's miraculous.

And cheap! I think the pills were less than $10. I think if I didn't have access to them, I'd be dead in a month.

Think of how scary it must have been in pioneer times, when the nearest doctor was 15 miles away by horse... if you were lucky.

What scares me is the large incidence of accidental medically
induced illness. My daughter acquired a severe still undiagnosed
though cured infection and pneumonia simultaneously while
being hospitalized for Crohn’s disease. A young lad my
daughters knew died of pneumonia acquired from a tube inserted
while recovering from a gunshot wound. My neighbor is
currently recovering from a blood clot which formed around
her Pick line which was being used to treat her for a severe
infection that she is convinced she acquired from a colonoscopy.

My wife is convinced that when/if I get my screening colonoscopy
that I’ll get sick, injured by the scope, bleed out or worse. Sometimes
I wonder if maybe she’s right.

Glad you’re feeling better, but it’s going to take a while for your
lung to fully recover. Be patient. :)

Well, if you are going to get all serious about medical mishaps, there are people in the medical field who are taking things like nosocomial (healthcare acquired) infections and "mistakes" seriously, and are doing things to change them... http://www.ihi.org/ihi

Glad you had a bug responsive to antibiotics. The problem these days is that there are too many resistant bacteria. Likely caused by overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics.

Think of how scary it must have been in pioneer times, when the nearest doctor was 15 miles away by horse... if you were lucky.

Sometimes the further away you were from a pioneer-times doctor, the better off you were.

Are you posting this a little tongue in cheek. Asprin and antibiotics two of the mainstays of medicine in the last say oh 50 years and you never had occasion to use either one? You are either the healthiest person I have ever heard of or you have been living in a cave :) Great to hear you are doing better and yes like another poster wrote take all of the antibiotic the doc gave you. Now get out and ride some more and get your immune system working again before you get sick the second time in your life :) I'm not being a wise guy or troll either, stay well. I took the flu shot this year only to read the other day that the vaccine they gave this year didn't work on the flu thats going around just my luck. Maybe its like one of those placebo things they give one group in the test and the other group gets the real thing and nearly the same number from both groups stay healthy.

No, of course I've taken aspirin and antibiotics before.

In fact, I've been on tylenol#3 every two weeks for the past 4 months because of this dental stuff.

It's just that going from feeling so bad to a definite improvement reminds me of how amazing these most simple of drugs can be. We were talking in another thread about drugs which can cost $80/pill, and how out of hand medical stuff is.

I just wanted to remind us that some things were very very good about medicine. Aspirin and antiobiotics being 2 of them. Aspirin seems like such a red-headed cousin nowadays, but if you have a pain, aspirin really* works. It's quite powerful, if you're not used to taking things.

I just was really impressed with both.

Nyquil, too. I had to wake up to take the keflex, but last night I took Nyquil and slept like I was dead. First time in a couple weeks I slept all the way through. So, Nyquil is on my wonder list, too.

I really wans't trying to be a wise guy I hope you didn't take it that way

Well, I'll tell ya, if it *was* pee-na-moan-ya, that's no joke.
Glad you're feeling better, for sure.
Keep taking those meds 'till they're all gone and don't be foolin' around with this. Really.

+1

We've had a couple cases of this at work and it really hit them hard. One person ended up in the hospital:(

What scares me is the large incidence of accidental medically
induced illness. My daughter acquired a severe still undiagnosed
though cured infection and pneumonia simultaneously while
being hospitalized for Crohn’s disease. A young lad my
daughters knew died of pneumonia acquired from a tube inserted
while recovering from a gunshot wound. My neighbor is
currently recovering from a blood clot which formed around
her Pick line which was being used to treat her for a severe
infection that she is convinced she acquired from a colonoscopy.

My wife is convinced that when/if I get my screening colonoscopy
that I’ll get sick, injured by the scope, bleed out or worse. Sometimes
I wonder if maybe she’s right.

Glad you’re feeling better, but it’s going to take a while for your
lung to fully recover. Be patient. :)

Dear Crank,

DO the colonoscopy, and stay on schedule. I've seen enough of the consequences in my family to know how bad it can be not catching colon cancer early. DO NOT put it off, get it checked.

Mrs. Cranky Old Dude will be much less happy if she sees what I have seen.

My dad died of a hospital-induced infection, so we can all get it, but the alternative to this test is worth avoiding.

Road Fan

I found out from my dentist that I probably had pneumonia. But I'm all better now. But I didn't even know what was wrong with me. It was a light case I'm sure, with just a tiny bit of lung crackling, but it had really punked me out for the last few weeks. No smiles on my face at all. I thought it was just a cold. But I'd been having a lot of dental work done, and I ended up with some kind of bacterial thing that was connected. Man, I felt horrible.

But Antibiotics are AMAZING! It's the morning of the third day and I woke up feeling like a new woman! What was the world like before antibiotics???

Aspirin is another wonder drug. If you don't take a lot of drugs, the effect of 2 aspirin for pain is absolutely astonishing! Thank you, whoever in history figured out about that tree bark.

So, now maybe I won't have to take 2 naps a day, and can get some stuff done* around this dog hair filled house!

Jack Daniels with the aspirin and a good night's sleep always helps...........

Glad you are feeling better. I had penumonia when I was in college and in shape. Even then it knocked me for a hell of a loop. It's nothing to sneeze at, and +1 on how amazing it can be when you are prescribed the right antibiotic (or other med for that matter). Everybody knocks the medical profession, until they are really needed, then suddenly they become heroes. Funny how that works.