Pain relief/ fever reducer for Gastric Bypass patients

I had a minor surgery on Monday (endometrial ablation).  24 hours later pain and fever started and has got steadily worse.  Doctor prescribed antibiotics which I started today.  I have been taking tylenol plus codeine last three days and my fever is still 103!  It's not helping the pain or fever.

When I had the bypass surgery it helped my pain but not this time because I guess I have a uterine infection.  I hope I don't have a superbug and will start feeling better tomorrow.  I can't take ibuprofen and up to now, I haven't needed it.

Is there anything else I can do to help the pain and fever?  I don't want to go to emergency room but if this keeps up I may have to. I collapsed during the night when I got up or at least I would have if hubby hadn't sprang out of bed to grab me and help me back to bed.  Guess my blood pressure is a bit sensitive too.

Surgery was late that day because they were cleaning from the last op and I remember thinking, "oh I hope they clean it properly so I don't get an infection!

Acetometaphin (aka Tylenol)

No NSAIDS allowed (aspirin, naproxen, ibuprophen)

Yeah, I'm taking that at prescription strength with codeine and it isn't helping.

With the kids we did lukewarm baths and lots of fluid.  

I usually give abx 24 hours to kick in but I would probably be calling the Dr. who did the ablation if the abx aren't working after the 24 hours.  

I hope you start feeling better soon.

Oh, and we only medicated fevers if the kid felt like crap and even I don't medicate fevers if I'm not feeling horrible.

I'm all about treating pain with liberal doses of appropriate medication but fevers don't get me too worried unless I feel like crud.

You spoke of a UT issue. Treatment may take 3-5 days to eliminate the pain.  I had the "expereince" of a UT 5 years ago. I had a recent issue a few mo. earlier with CIPRO to prevent an infection from a severe cut that needed 7 stitches.  I came down with "terminal diarrhea", stopped the Cipro, and took Lomotil to stop the diarrhea. My doc said the Cipro was killing off all bacteria in my lower tract, and I had to take Bactrim for the UT issue. So if you come down with really bad diarrhea in a day or so, it may likely be the antibiotic.  My medication chart with Kaiser is marked "severe diarrhea" as a consequence from CIPRO, to prevent future docs from prescribing it for me. DAVE

After a fever of 103 it is now down to 100.  Still have lots of pain but over the worst. Thank god for antibiotics . It was so bad it affected my blood pressure and I panicked hubby in the middle of the night flailing around the bedroom in a determined effort to not collapse!  I was bouncing off mirrors and doors. I couldn't control my direction back to my bed. Hubby has fast reflexes to catch me for sure. Good job I lost weight or it wouldn't have been so easy for him.