I am 29 yrs old and was diagnosed with pneumonia 3 months ago. I have taken different antibiotics but still feel strong fever en difficulty in breathing particularly when sleep on left side. How long does it take to heal? If the antibiotics fails,what s is the next step?
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. Treatment of pneumonia should be organism specific. We have to search for the causative organism. So I advise you to send sputum culture and sensitivity. Try to identify the organism and start antibiotics according to sensitivity report. I prefer two groups of antibiotics. I also advice to repeat the chest x-ray to see whether pneumonia is improving of not. So I suggest consulting pulmonologist and get done sputum culture and repeat chest x-ray for better evaluation of your pneumonia.