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4/10/2006 6:50:35 PM EDT
A question for the hive:

Is it unusual to not be prescribed antibiotics after an appendectomy?  I am recovering from one and was given no antibiotics.  Doc said they don't work.  
4/10/2006 6:51:14 PM EDT
[#1]
that's because he used HIV infected tools on you.  you're screwed bud
4/10/2006 6:53:03 PM EDT
[#2]
Hope not.
4/10/2006 7:13:27 PM EDT
[#3]
I had an appy and they gave me IV antibiotics before I left the hospital.  Nothing to take home except massive pain pills.  Said to come back if it started to look infected.
4/10/2006 7:16:46 PM EDT
[#4]
OK.  Yeah, they gave me an IV when I was in there, too.  Just seemed strange that I didn't get any pill antibiotics.

Been practically chewing on a piece of leather to avoid taking the pain pills.
4/10/2006 7:28:26 PM EDT
[#5]
As long as I didn't move I was ok.  The getting out of bed to go pee was the worst.  But I made do with ibuprofin and not the tylenol-3.  Get through the first 2 days or so and you'll be fine.
4/10/2006 7:34:51 PM EDT
[#6]
Mine had already ruptured.  I got gallons of the highest potent juice they could get.  Darn near died anyway.

I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that they cut open your gut and won't be using any anti-biotics.  That is odd.
4/10/2006 7:41:22 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:

Been practically chewing on a piece of leather to avoid taking the pain pills.


Uh, why?
4/10/2006 7:45:02 PM EDT
[#8]
Just don't like 'em.
4/10/2006 7:46:07 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that they cut open your gut and won't be using any anti-biotics.  That is odd.


Like I said, they gave me an IV with antibiotics in the hospital but no pills for when I got out.  Just trying to figure out if that is normal.

Sorry to hear you got so sick.
4/10/2006 7:50:30 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Just don't like 'em.

well..... send em over here , I'll take em for ya
4/10/2006 7:52:25 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
Just don't like 'em.


I know, they taste nasty. But someone showed me how to swallow pills with a glass of water, and I was SOOOOOOOOOO happy after that!
4/10/2006 8:47:30 PM EDT
[#12]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Just don't like 'em.


I know, they taste nasty. But someone showed me how to swallow pills with a glass of water, and I was SOOOOOOOOOO happy after that!


"...and it turns out, they were SUPPOSITORIES!"

Sorry, punchline sort of appeared in front of me when I read your post.
4/10/2006 8:51:17 PM EDT
[#13]
Ahhh...the appy, second worst pain I've ever encountered next to Kidney stones

IV antibiotics in the hospital are the norm, if ya start to run a fever or start to ooze green puss, call the doc, but sounds like SOP from what my wife tells me (nurse)
4/10/2006 8:53:27 PM EDT
[#14]
Did your appendix rupture?  Mine did and I was on IV antibiotics for several weeks but was sent home with out any oral medications.  IIRC I had instructions to contact my doctor if my temperature went up past 100.

Patty
4/10/2006 8:57:18 PM EDT
[#15]
Take the pain pills or you'll be in pain for a while.
4/10/2006 9:06:19 PM EDT
[#16]
Quoted:
Did your appendix rupture?  Mine did and I was on IV antibiotics for several weeks but was sent home with out any oral medications.  IIRC I had instructions to contact my doctor if my temperature went up past 100.

Patty


Fortunately, it did not rupture.  I am sorry to hear that yours did.  That probably was unpleasant.
4/10/2006 9:07:15 PM EDT
[#17]
Quoted:
Ahhh...the appy, second worst pain I've ever encountered next to Kidney stoneshebut sounds like SOP from what my wife tells me (nurse)hr


Phew.  Good to know.   Thanks.  
4/10/2006 9:09:47 PM EDT
[#18]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Did your appendix rupture?  Mine did and I was on IV antibiotics for several weeks but was sent home with out any oral medications.  IIRC I had instructions to contact my doctor if my temperature went up past 100.

Patty


Fortunately, it did not rupture.  I am sorry to hear that yours did.  That probably was unpleasant.


To say the least!  Mine ruptured when I was 17 and it took me exactly 30 days before I could talk someone into believing me that it rupture.  I was hospitalized for over a month for the original appendectomy and again for 3 weeks for adhesions.  Not a lot of fun.  

I hope you heal quickly.  I'm sure you'll be fine.

Patty
4/10/2006 9:14:34 PM EDT
[#19]
Wow.  That is terrible.  hrough
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