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[|Human|] I was recently diagnosed with pneumonia with plurisy. I received IV antibiotics in the hospital. I am home. My pain has pretty much gone away. I saw my primary care doctor today and he did a chest xray. It has only been less than a week. He said the xray still showed pneumonia and for me not to return to work. I feel much better. I need to go back to work.
[|AI|]  Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. In pneumonia symptoms appear before x-ray findings (infiltrates, consolidation). And same is true after treatment. After appropriate treatment, improvement in symptoms is earlier than x-ray improvement. So if you are symptomatically improved than no need to worry much. X-ray improvement will take almost 2-3 weeks atheist. Sometimes it will take almost 1 month for improvement. So better to consult pulmonologist and discuss all these. If you are symptomatically better than you can get back to work. Get done chest x-ray after 20-30 days, it will improve.