Hello. I just found out my 9 year old has pneumonia. she is on Biaxin. She hasnt fell well since Christmas Eve,and then yesterday she was getting pains in her ribs from coughing. My mother took her to the drs for me today(ran out of sick time @ my job. two drs said she had pneumonia and she had a chest Xray then she is back to the drs friday. anyone here have a child that had or has pneumonia. she seems ok sometimes,but im a basket case as is my mother. thanks for all the answers in advance.

Can't answer about having a child with it, but I had it as an adult a few years ago. I was sooooo tired all the time. Felt so weak. Even once I was on the biaxin, I was still coughing up, out all that gunk from my lungs for several weeks and had to nap quite a bit. Took a lot out of me and I lost a lot of weight.

She is tired too alot and has hardly eaten latley. I felt bad for her because she was ill on Christmas. so you kept coughing even after the antibotic? im still coughing and i was on an antibotic two weeks ago( I had bronchitis). oh lord!

I coughed for several weeks afterwards. Had to get all that gunk out of my lungs. Didn't feel like eating -- was so tired, just washed out. All I wanted to do was lay down and sleep. Could hardly move I was so exhausted. Never had anything like it before, hope it never ever happens again.

Both of my daughters have had Pneumonia a couple of times and with my oldest (4) she has been really tired. I thinks that's normal with Pneumonia.
She's going to be okay, just stay in touch with you doctors'. With my two girls having asthma, they tend to get it more easily.

My pediatrician had us do breathing treatments to help break up the gunk in her chest. I'm really not sure if that is normally done in a child without asthma or not. It might be worth asking. It really helps us.