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How To Treat Shortness Of Breath And Cough Inspite Of Taking Lorazepam For Pneumonia?

Hi, last Friday my mother started feeling very weak and tired at like 3 pm. by 4 pm she was heaving problems breathing, was out of breath, had tingling in hands and feet which followed by tremor. she also felt heavy chest pain- not really a pain but felt like something heavy was on her chest. then she said that she can t feel her hands and feet so I called 911. they did xray of lungs. she started feeling better so they discharged her stating that she had a panic attack. next day she felt better but symptoms were still present. the following wednesday I had a phone appt with her primary physician and told him that symptoms are still there and it s not good. she lost like 7 lbs in 4 days, she barely ate and could not sleep. he said to go to ER again so they can do blood work and possibly CT scan of her lungs to rule out pulmonary embolism. we did that, the blood work came back and they said that they were not going to do a CT scan because blood work was negative. they also did the xray of her lungs and this time the Dr. said that it shows that she has pneumonia. (it was a different ER location) for some reason the first ER dr did not see pneumonia but this time it was there. all of her other tests came back good. (ekg...etc). she is now taking antibiotics (day 2) for pneumonia and also i asked the er Dr to give her something to relax her because her heartrate was constantly at 100-105 and she was always out of breath... they gave us lorazepam which seems to help. she has rheumatoid arthritis for which she takes HUMIRA. I am reallly questioning the diagnosis of pneumonia because she has not been sick, was not coughing and out of nowhere got these weird symptoms. does the above described situation and symptoms look like it could be pneumonia??? thank you!!
Mon, 13 Apr 2015
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How To Treat Shortness Of Breath And Cough Inspite Of Taking Lorazepam For Pneumonia?