Infection?

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I had to call my pm doc on Easter as the pain had reached the point that I couldn't bear any more. I saw him yesterday. He did x-rays to insure the paddle of my scs hadn't move. They haven't. He said I was having the worst muscle spasms that I had had since he began seeing me. (2 years ago). He did lab work to check for possible infection when I had the scs placed.
My question is could I have an infection from the Oct 2007 surgery. I have had no fever, chills or anything. This new pain started over 3 weeks ago and I can only walk for 10-15 minutes and the pain puts me in the bed. Any ideas?

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It doesn't seem likely that you'd have an infection from surgery 5 months ago. It would have reared its ugly head before now, and you'd have had a fever. Is the new pain the muscle spasm pain? Have you been doing anything different? Exercising more? Exercising less?

Might just be one of those nasty flare ups that we all get from time to time. Did your doctor have any suggestions?

Hope you feel better soon!
Emily
 
It seems to me that I remeraber something about when you go to the dentist some dentists make you take antibotics because of your hardware. Have you been to the dentist lately by chance or had any other procedure done that involved puncturing/bleeding? If so, your doctor could certainly be on to something. I know leave it to me to remeraber this.....:D
 
Pepper, I read that, too, but when I asked my surgeon about it he looked at me like I was loony and laughed. He said it's completely unnecessary, though I do need to take antibiotics for dentist appts for a little heart problem. I can't remeraber where I read it, but I'm thinking it was here on the board a year or so ago.

:wave: Emily
 
I actually asked my surgeon about this and he said that some dentists do believe in this and others do not. Personally he did not feel it was needed.

So who knows!!
 
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