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How To Cure Pain During Deep Breath After Pleural Effusion?

Im still recovering from pneumonia, spent two weeks in hospital, home end of May. Had xray last week, still have pleural effusion causing pain with deep breath, just plain tired and don't feel good at all. Dr. put me on ten more days antib and prednisone. Any other advice, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!
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Hello
You are having "pleural effusion" with pain during breathing ( deep ) and taking antibiotics with prednisolone .
You didn't mention the cause of pleaural effusion , these are .
1 tuberculosis ,
2 Carcinoma ( cancer )
3 Traumatic
4 Sterile fluid
5 Innominate reason.
Usually tuberculosis is the main reason of pleural effusion ,but you didn't mention the type of treatment and reason of pleaural effusion , so it is very difficult to say , why are you having pain during deep breathing?
When such patient visit my clinic I prescribe them ANTI TUBERCULAR treatment + pantaloc-D + levofloxacin 750 mg . Usually patient respond on day one and pain subsides within 3-5 days .
If fluid amount is > 100 ml , aspiration ( tapping ) is necessary in tubercular effusion.
I usually don't like to prescribe prednisolone .
In my opinion you should consult pulmonologist ( 2nd ) and get his opinion.
Good luck.
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How To Cure Pain During Deep Breath After Pleural Effusion?

Hello You are having pleural effusion with pain during breathing ( deep ) and taking antibiotics with prednisolone . You didn t mention the cause of pleaural effusion , these are . 1 tuberculosis , 2 Carcinoma ( cancer ) 3 Traumatic 4 Sterile fluid 5 Innominate reason. Usually tuberculosis is the main reason of pleural effusion ,but you didn t mention the type of treatment and reason of pleaural effusion , so it is very difficult to say , why are you having pain during deep breathing? When such patient visit my clinic I prescribe them ANTI TUBERCULAR treatment + pantaloc-D + levofloxacin 750 mg . Usually patient respond on day one and pain subsides within 3-5 days . If fluid amount is 100 ml , aspiration ( tapping ) is necessary in tubercular effusion. I usually don t like to prescribe prednisolone . In my opinion you should consult pulmonologist ( 2nd ) and get his opinion. Good luck.