Bladder Infection...3 weeks after delivery??

Question

I went back into the hospital two days after being released from postpardum bc I was running a fever, and in so much pain I thought I was having another baby!!! It ended up being a very rare infection called Endometritis. I was put in the hospital for three days, and put on antibiotics. While I was there, they also took a urine culture to check for a bladder infection, and I haone of those too. So...they put me on Keflex when I was released for seven days. I just got off those last week, and was not having any pain, and then on Saturday it started all over again. Went to the doctor today, he felt my uterus, said it felt fine, but that my bladder was def. hurting and tender to touch. He put me on more antibiotics, and sent me home. I am in a lot of pain. I have taken Oxycodon, not even taking the edge off of the pain. I am worried it is something more again like before and they are just messing up again (a lot of things went wrong with the delivery, wont get into that!!!)

Answer 1

I went through something very similar. I also got very painful endometritis after my delivery and was hospitalized and put on antibiotics. The antibiotics cleared it up but then I got a yeast infection (on my breasts) from all the antibiotics! So that destroyed my chances at nursing my daughter. They wouldn't even let her be with me in the hospital while they were treating the uterine infection. It makes me so mad to think of it!

In regards to your situation, it seems like three courses of antibiotics in a row is excessive, esp. since the 2nd round obviously did not clear up the bladder problem. They need to be looking into something else.

Your immune system is really going to be compromised with all of these antibiotics.

I would suggest going to a different doctor and getting a second opinion, and in the meantime start taking acidopholus tablets to replace some of the good flora in your body that antibiotics have destroyed. You might also try drinking a lot of water and cranberry juice (if it really is another bladder infection) and trying the natural remedy Uva Ursi.

When I had a bladder infection I found that 4 ibuprofen tablets relieved a lot of pain. My doctor said I could take that dose safely for a couple of days.

Sorry you are feeling so bad.....it seems the troubles never end, even after baby comes!

Answer 2

hi whilst my daughter became in neo there became a toddler at 25 weeks that did stay to tell the tale in spite of the certainty that he/she became there till 3 months overdue date. They did say that had it been decrease than 22 weeks they does no longer have been legally obliged to maintain the toddler alive because it would have been classed as a miscarriage and does no longer be interior the final activity of the toddler.