Anyone ever had pleurisy?

I had a bad cough last week and the week before, doctor suspects it was the flu but I went in on the tail end of all sypmtoms sans the cough. It was a constant, dry cough. In the mornings when I first woke up I could always hack up some of the junk in my chest, and it was always bloody. They took a chest X-ray and blood sample and didn't find anything abnormal, so I was prescribed two different cough medications and an antibiotic. Fast forward to today, my cough is mostly gone and I don't have any other symptoms, but for the last few days it feels like there's a butter knife stuck in my chest. Constant dull pain that turns to a sharp pain if I move the wrong way, cough, sneeze, take a deep breath, etc. The pain was in my upper back last week and wasn't too bad but now it's in a concentrated spot and it's pretty terrible. Reading about it online, if it's just swelling then it sounds like there isn't much that can be done sans taking NSAIDS, which I can do on my own. If there's a fluid buildup then they stick a needle in through your back and drain it, but I would imagine that's done as a last resort/extreme case.

Tl;dr- I suspect I have pleurisy and want to know who has experienced it before and how you got rid of it