Modern medicine and reality.

Hi Sue the mentor

You sound like an 'insider' LOL ... nurse or doctor?
I did read a few papers by doctors who are exploring antibiotics and their relationship to pain. I can take Celecoxib for inflammation but that just shifts a portion of the pain away from my hip and into my stomach. Amoxicillin had no side effects and worked like a charm. If doctors etc could figure it out and arrive at a drug that didn't fight bacteria yet had the positive inflammation value, that would be a great thing. I would line up for that.

Thanks for your post.

Not a medical professional, just a research nerd. This issue arises often in the treatment of inflammatory lung disorders, where there is a balancing act between reducing inflammation and risking 1) creating superhuman and 2) risks of long-term use of drugs that were tested/intended as short time solutions.

Going through chronic post surgery pain too. Voodoo physical therapy lasts half a day and then right back in it. I feel you and am getting resigned to it

Life is Pain, anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. a quote from The Princess Bride

Or destroy your liver and/or kidneys….

If you’ve got an infection in your body and are treated with an antibiotic pain associated with the infection should decrease and hopefully go away as the medication takes effect. An interesting correlation between the two though. But antibiotics are over prescribed in the U.S. leading to drug resistance for previously beatable bugs and certainly prescribing antibiotics for pain in my opinion would be highly inappropriate, but I’m not a doctor. Yes medication prescribers can order off-label medications but this would be abuse of the process. Maybe a drug researcher will take up the correlation question for us?

Yes. I agree on the gist of your comments. Coming to grips with the exact nature of the cause(s) of my pain(s) in my hip and leg post surgery, I have come to the conclusion that a round of antibiotics beyond the length currently prescribed for anterior hip arthroplasty might be a good idea, as it will allow a longer period during recovery where pain is controlled, allowing for greater movement and stretching. Intense pain during recovery limits what a patient can do, hence their recovery can be stunted. But if antibiotics, which a patient is taking post op anyway, could be extended then recovery could go better.

@aaronhurts well it might be an idea to run across a doctor but it would be hard to justify pain as a reason for continuing an antibiotic longer than necessary. Antibiotics do a number on your body that should be avoided unless medically necessary. But I do understand your need to be as pain free as possible following the surgery.