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Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Sep 8, 2025 | Replies (17)
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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?
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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.