Treatment AFTER a 6 day hospital stay for Pneumonia?

I couple weeks ago, I was hospitized with a slight pnuemonia, high stubborn fever, and flu-like syptoms. While in the hospital, I was treated with IV antibiotics, and Erythromicin pills for 6 days. I was released without fever, and breathing comfortably.
Here's my problem: I absolutely HATE taking antibiotics other than the time I HAD to while in the hospital. The doctor prescribed Alelox, and I have such anxiety on a every day basis, that the thought of taking this powerful drug is driving me crazy. I discussed this with my doctor, and he changed me over to Amoxicillin with Augmentin. Again, I am petrified to take these drugs because of the potential side effects.

My question:
Since I am basically symptom free, and I was treated with high doses of IV antibiotics in my hospital stay, is this continued round of antibiotics a precaution, or do I stand a good chance of a relapse if I refuse to take these antibiotics?

Forgot to mention:

It's now been 4 days since my hospital release, and I haven't taken any antibiotics.
Is it too late to start?
Has the potential "damage" already begun?

i have a friend in the hospital right now for double pneumonia. She has been in there for over 2 weeks now. Yes take all meds. It could come back. My friend almost died cause the fluid in her lungs was unable to come out. They had to suck that crap out of her lungs for her to get better. And as i speak she is still in the hospital for double pneumonia and i am still not sure if she is going to make it threw this. Her bf dont think she is going to make it cause she is not getting better

You stand a chance of relapse. The IV antibiotics took care of most of the infection in your lungs but the pills he prescribed will take care of what was left. You were released from the hospital as soon as possible because a hospital is full of germs and not the best place to be, there is a fear of patients contracting additional infections with a lengthy stay. They try to blast most of the infection with the IV antibiotics first, until they feel like most are gone and you are well enough to continue the fight at home. Then they send you home with additional medication to finish the job. So the best thing to do is take the meds. I hope this makes sense to you, it's hard to put into words.

Symptom free is not necessarily illness free. You'd feel pretty stupid and be a complete waste of valuable space if you had a relapse and had to return to hospital. I doubt if your fully qualified doctor would give you unnecessary pills to take if he didn't think you needed them. It's probably to ensure you could come home quicker and free up a hospital bed for someone else who needed it. You've already been pumped full of antibiotics whilst in hospital and I expect these pills are just the remainder of a course to make absolutely sure you are completely well. You won't have to take them for very long - probably days. If I were you, I'd take them and have done with it and look upon it as the lesser of two evils. The alternative is a good chance of having a relapse and another stay in hospital with even more drugs being pumped into you. Not what you would wish, not what the hospital would wish and certainly not what your doctor wants. You employ a doctor for his expertise......use it.
Better a quick side effect than another long illness which might now be resistant to antibiotics. Take your medicine.

The reason for the antibiotics is to keep you infection free while the rest of you recovers from the bout of pneumonia. Pneumonia is not a nice disease, as you discovered, and it takes just about all the reserves your body has to beat it sometimes. If you required hospitalization and iv antibiotics to recouperate, then you didn't have a "slight" case or it cultured out a bacteria that can very rapidly go from zero to 60 in no time. You underestimate what it took out of your body to get you back on your feet. Compared to how you felt when you were so sick, I imagine you do feel incredibly better. That doesn't mean the repairwork inside you is finished by any means, and you are still at a higher risk of either a relapse or an opportunistic bacteria moving in while that's going on. All choices in life come with good and bad possibilities, and making the choice requires weight the benefits against the potential loss. In this case, the benefit to taking the antibiotics is that you give your body a chance to repair and prevent anything else moving in while that happens. Something that could prove harder to whip next time around, may I mention? You will recover your physical well being faster with the antibiotics riding shotgun than you will by requiring your body to do it all- rebuild and defend. Although antibiotics can and are abused, in your particular case, they are quite sensible. And you aren't in much danger of suffering any side effects that would really outweigh the benefits you stand to gain. You will be doing in some of the good bacteria, yes- but those can be replaced with a carton of live culture yogurt. I honestly can't think of a side effect or a down side to taking them. I can think of a downside to refusing to take them. Of course, you are an adult- and nobody is going to force the medication down you. I suppose you just have to ask yourself if you want to gamble with another infection, or a relapse, when you are not quite up to full strength yet. Keep in mind, your lung function is very closely tied to your heart function as well. When the lungs don't work well, the heart gets stressed as well. Nobody can tell what your particular risk is, only that there is one. So I guess it will really come down to the old question- do you feel lucky? If you don't want to risk your life on luck, then take the antibiotics.

I was in the hospital for 15 days too. I had Pneumonia and i had to take same medicine you are taking cause even though the fluid in my lungs was removed my lungs were not that clear.

I had to go see my Dr for a follow up and more CT scan and more antibiotics.

So gal you are making a mistake for not taking your medicine, we all hate medicine but think about your life. It only take 1 second to swallow yucky pill, you are not a 5 year old remember.
After your hospitalization are you doing any kind of follow up, to see how your lungs are functioning now?
You have to...otherwise you may never know if they are healthy as suppose to.