 [ Symptoms ] do you get a shot if you have pneumonia my boyfriend told me he has pneumonia he went to urgent care & they tested him for mono as well do you normally recive a shot for pneumonia [ Disease ] no pneumonia is usually treated without the indignity and pain of an antibiotic  injection there are many types and severity of pneumonia but if they medical provider assumed that he had a bacterial type these can be effectively treated with oral antibiotics sometimes with younger children who may be vomiting not good candidates for oral medications or those with severe pneumonia i will give an antibiotic injection they are not happy about it but getting them better is the most important goal there is a shot to prevent many types of pneumonia pneumococcal i had one this morning