I had my baby last Tuesday and was released from the hospital on Thursday morning. I thought everything was fine and I was just experiencing the normal afterpains of delivery since I had similarly dealt with all this before when I had my son 4 years ago. Apparently things were worse than I realized.
I woke up in agonizing abdominal pain early Monday morning at 3am and was shaking so much from being cold that it felt almost like a seizure. I had my fiance take me to the local emergency room and there they told me I had a fever of 102.2. They took my blood, gave me an exam, and did a cat scan. The blood and cat scan showed nothing abnormal but from the exam they determined that I must have some sort of infection in my uterus. They ended up making me take an ambulance to the hospital in a bigger city where I gave birth and decided to do cultures on my blood to see if they could figure out what type of bacteria was causing the infection. I was immediately put on antibiotics to try and kill the infection. At one point my fever ended up spiking again and was at 103. They then decided to give me another type of antibiotic and kept switching out giving me both of them since they still didnt have results from my cultures yet to determine which one I really needed. After that I didn't have any more fevers. The pain kept coming and going throughout taking pain meds to try and control it. I was told yesterday that I could finally go home that evening as long as nothing else went wrong and they would just prescribe me both antibiotics until they got back the culture results. They took me off the IV's that morning and said they would start giving me pills to get me ready to go home. A short while later a nurse came back in and said she was just gonna give me one last bag of antibiotics but she didnt double check where my needle was at and apparently it had removed itself from my vein whenever she pulled out the other IV's earlier. So instead of pumping antibiotics into my veins it just started filling up my hand like it was a waterballoon. That was incredibly painful and I had to call her back in there to come take it out right away. After some warm rags and elevation the swelling went down a lot but it still looked very puffy and still does today even. Made it home last night but the pharmacy only had one of my antibiotics so I have to go get the other one at some point today from a different pharmacy. Still feeling kinda awful but much better than I was Monday I suppose. I have no idea what really happened to me though and hoping when the cultures come back I'll have some real answers. My 2wk postpartum checkup is on Tuesday so maybe by then I'll know something.
Quoting ✰ Mrs. B ✰:" Sure hope you get better soon! Do they possibly think there might be any placenta left?"
They looked at a ton of pictures when i had the cat scan done, wouldnt they be able to see if there was anything in there then? they said everything looked great, no tears or perforations in any of my organs, etc.
Oh wow! I'm so sorry to hear that! Praying everything comes back okay (although I hope they find what was causing your fever so at least you'll have answers!)
Oh gosh you have been through the mill! Sounds like you had a nasty infection there. Hope you are feeling much better now and hope the little one is doing well too.
Thanks guys. She's doing just fine, but is a handful that's for sure. My son was such an easy baby. She's a little diva who has to be held constantly and will cry and cry and cry until she gets her way. lol. Jett was so content to just sit around and look at whatever and sit in his bouncer or swing. She will only stay in those things if she's already passed out. Right now she's sleeping in my arms as I type so when her paci falls out i can put it back in before she starts whining for someone to come fix it for her. lol.
I am okay but def not feeling too great yet. Stomach still hurts some but my head hurts a lot worse. The lack of sleep plus all the antibiotics are making me feel a bit dehydrated. I feel like I'm drowning myself in water and have to pee soooo much because of it. My postpartum checkup is Tuesday so hoping to find out more then...
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