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Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:50 pm
by Jorlex
My colon resection is tomorrow morning. I'm doing the prep now. This is my 4th prep and this time I'm nauseated for some reason. So when I went to take my final dose of antibiotics, the 4 horse pills. It got my gag reflex and there they went.

How bad is that? I figured I'd just tell them upon my arrival in the morning. It's not like I can get more right now.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:22 am
by Lee
[quote="Jorlex" . . . my gag reflex and there they went.

How bad is that? I figured I'd just tell them upon my arrival in the morning. It's not like I can get more right now.[/quote]

If what I think happened, call your Dr. office ASAP and tell them what just happened. Someone on call should decide the next step. I've taken some of those horse pills. I too though I would up chuck them, nurse informed me if I did, call them and more pills would be made available for me :shock: .

Oh what fun we have :mrgreen:

good luck tomorrow.

Lee

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:51 am
by NHMike
I spent the night before surgery next to the hospital so I probably could have gone to their pharmacy to ask or beg for extras. Losing important meds is something that I would hope pharmacies have a policy for. It might still mean calling the Doctor's on-call person.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:34 am
by Jorlex
What you think happened, happened. There was no saving them.
No pharmacy open 24/7 where I live in sticks.
Showing up and we’ll see.
I’m hoping they’ll just give me more via IV when I arrive.

Ready to get this surgery over.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:20 am
by NHMike
We'll see you on the other side.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 2:51 pm
by tarheelmom
Same thing happened to me on the day before surgery. I called, and the response was that it was still ok and it happened to a lot of people. I vomited from about 2 pm on the day prior to surgery until they put me under.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:29 pm
by Jorlex
Same thing they told me, Tarheelmom. I told them and they just shrugged, said no biggie. And started it on my IV in presurgery.

Surgery went well. 12inches of colon removed a wait for biopsy. But surgeon felt it was good and caught in time.
No size known of tumor. Family didn’t ask or recall him telling. I’ll ask later.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:57 pm
by Lee
Glad you made it through surgery. For one of my preps for scope, I kept throwing up the solution. Put a call into my surgeon (who also does my scopes). Based on my output, I was clean. Go to bed, see ya in morn. Next morn told surgeon I was throwing up off and on through night. Be prepared, Guess they kept a tube near by just in case I lost it during scope.

I will never take those horse pills again.

Now remember to walk, walk, walk those hospital halls,

Lee

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:58 pm
by tarheelmom
Glad to see you posting so soon after surgery!

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:05 pm
by NHMike
Jorlex wrote:Same thing they told me, Tarheelmom. I told them and they just shrugged, said no biggie. And started it on my IV in presurgery.

Surgery went well. 12inches of colon removed a wait for biopsy. But surgeon felt it was good and caught in time.
No size known of tumor. Family didn’t ask or recall him telling. I’ll ask later.


Glad to hear it went well.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:13 am
by DarknessEmbraced
I'm glad your surgery went well!*hugs* I hope you won't have to wait long for biopsy results!*hugs*

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:04 pm
by Jorlex
Results came back. Stage 1, just follow ups for next five years.

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:20 pm
by SweetC80
Jorlex wrote:Results came back. Stage 1, just follow ups for next five years.

Yay, good news! Glad everything went well!

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:38 pm
by NHMike
Jorlex wrote:Results came back. Stage 1, just follow ups for next five years.


Sounds great!

Re: Surgery in Morning and I just got sick (Lost Antibiotics)Uh OH?

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:53 pm
by Robino1
Congrats!! :D

Please make sure you do follow up for as long as they tell you to. I stopped after 2 years when we were busy building a house. I figured it wasn't going to come back. It bit me in the ass...