Back In the Hospital !!!

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Well I'm not to pleased at present time and I'm about ready to blow a gasket!:mad:
Seems I got out of the hospital on Monday and have been following up by running the antibiotics needed to end this infection. Among other things we are redressing the wound and draining the wound drains? All this being monitored by a Visiting Nurse. She follows up with this and also takes blood tests.
Well it seems that after yesterday's blood tests we are called and told to stop all antibiotics.
I get a call this morning to report to the ER of the hospital and that I could be be going into kidney failure......WHAT The **** :eek:
Never had a problem with my kidney's ,now all of a sudden this wonder drug is killing them!
Needless to say I'm highly pizzed and they know it! :confused:
What is this? Another way for my cancer to get back at me and finish me off?
I am livid :mad:
So for now I'm back in the hospital for the weekend! :rolleyes:
 
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loknload said:
Well I'm not to pleased at present time and I'm about ready to blow a gasket!:mad:
Seems I got out of the hospital on Monday and have been following up by running the antibiotics needed to end this infection.

Among other things we are redressing the wound and draining the wound drains? All this being monitored by a Visiting Nurse. She follows up with this and also takes blood tests.

Well it seems that after yesterday's blood tests we are called and told to stop all antibiotics.
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I'm sorry to hear you're having more problems with this.

Tell you what, though, antibiotics are strange things, and I speak from personal experience from using them to combat infections.

Some types of infections are resistant to a whole bunch of different antibiotics. And sometimes even the doctors don't know this until the prescribed drug fails to do its job. I just recently had a hole sliced into my chest in the pectoral area to drain an infection. It was successful, and the antibiotic did its job in post op treatment. But...looking at the lab results online, I see that the infection was resistant to thirteen different antibiotics. It was only going to respond to one of the newest ones on the market...which is the one I got. And it still took a couple of weeks to completely clear things up.

Antibiotics can sometimes be a trial and error thing. Be glad someone saw a potential problem with your situation/medication and got you back for further evaluation and treatment.

Yeah, you're angry and probably frustrated...but it's better than being dead, ain't it? None of us enjoy trips to the hospital. You'll be back home soon, I hope.
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I didn't get any stitches, drains, or staples in my chest, by the way. Still looks as if I've been stabbed with a dagger or something. But it's healing. And it isn't infected and sore any more.

Infections. Nasty things.
 
You are lucky. There are now infections out there (around a dozen plus clinical reports) where the microbe is resistant to everything, including the A/B of last resort, the colistins. Dave_n
 
Thanks for all your thoughts and kind words guys, I really do appreciate it.
I'm really really ready to scream and this place keeps me somewhat sane! :D


It's not the infection that is bothering me now, it's the fact it has me going into kidney failure and maybe destroy my kidney's
I don't want to end up hearing kidney dialysis or kidney transplant because of this! :rolleyes:

So Watchdog you've been down the same path? Glad you made it through
 
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What can I say?
I can say that sucks but you already know that.
I'm hoping that they caught it in time. I'd be hopping *** mad too.

When I had a bad bout of sciatica, my doctor determined it was caused by an infection and prescribed me antibiotics and since he knows I don't like narcotic pain relievers, he prescribed me some strong nsaid pain relievers.
The two together plugged me up. I couldn't poop for 4 or 5 days and urinating was difficult.
I looked pregnant.
I stopped taking both. My doctor prescribed flowmax and stool softeners.
I'm still having some urinary tract problems.
I googled the meds he first gave me and found that they cause exactly the same problems they gave me to men over 50.

Doctors look at me say that I'm extremely healthy and figure I can handle anything they throw at me. They don't seem to take into consideration that I'm also in my mid 50's.
 
Prayers sent . I know to well you issues. I too am a very frequent flyer at the place where your at. A long stay guest thetetoo. So I know way to well the feeling. Sometimes the high dosage of anti boatics can cause some short term problems like that. Been down that road .Ugg never fun to be there on the weekend somties it makes your stay longer some docs don't come weekends in less critical .
 
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Lok, as a current cancer patient I feel your pain. With the chemo we are subjected to most anything can and will happen, the positive news is they caught it and will be able to address the problem. I have learned that anything that involves cancer, chemo or antibiotics can at best be risky. Hang in there my friend, keep the faith, you can beat this beast! Prayers coming.
 
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loknload said:
So Watchdog you've been down the same path? Glad you made it through
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No, nothing near as serious as you're going through. But it was enough to make me glad I didn't wait any longer before getting something done about it. Plus, I've been lucky enough in life that I've never had any really serious reactions to any medications I've had to take on occasion.

As you can see, you have people here who are thinking of you and offering all sorts of encouragement ranging from the spiritual to the somewhat humorous. Hopefully, both types will do what they're intended to do and get you bailed out and back home where you should be.
 
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Doctors look at me say that I'm extremely healthy and figure I can handle anything they throw at me. They don't seem to take into consideration that I'm also in my mid 50's.
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They tell me the same thing, except for a bit of high blood pressure. They don't seem to take my age into consideration, either.

Count your blessings (I'm sure you do). I'd kill to be in my mid-fifties again.
 
Watchdog,,,
As you can see, you have people here who are thinking of you and offering all sorts of encouragement ranging from the spiritual to the somewhat humorous. Hopefully, both types will do what they're intended to do and get you bailed out and back home where you should be.
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And yes Watchdog this is something I'm very thankful for! ;)

I couldn't have made it through half of this without my dear wife by my side!
 
I look at the possible side effects for the supposedly approved drugs and if the side effects are worse then my present health problem then I will not take the drugs. I quit taking prescriptions because I did experience the side effect. I use herbs and don't even have the side effects but FDA says they can't claim to cure anything because they aren't an approved drug. In other words they can't patent a natural substance created by nature so it can't claim to cure any disease.

What is even more ludicrous is that a naturopathic doctor or their prescribed natural prescriptions are not covered or recognized by any medical insurance. There are natural proven health aids but my insurance will not pay for them or the doctor charges.
IMO the FDA is the biggest threat to people's health.
 
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