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Has surgical hardware made you sick?
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Jun 8 8:15am | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
@jenniferhunter can this be on the spine too? I'm struggling after a couple screws and plates were implanted in my back for T12 fracture and I'm struggling with fever cold chills pain nausea vomiting lots of pain, but I'm a bout a month and 1/2 post surgery I don't think this should be. Any non medical advice you can give I feel horrible and can't get up barely to pee a city is out the roof with my already anxious disease. Can you help
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@jtcannon1976 Have you brought this to your surgeon's attention? A risk of any surgery is infection, and a fever and vomiting are a significant symptoms that should not be ignored. I would call your doctor ASAP, and not wait for responses here. Unfortunately, I only saw this now, 2 days after you posted this question. With my hardware reactions, my symptoms were pain at the hardware site and chronic hives. I did not have a fever or vomiting. FYI, my reaction to hardware was to titanium plates on my ankle after a fracture and I did have those removed a year and a half after the injury. I had a cervical fusion done without hardware, so that has been fine since the fusion surgery. I did have a respiratory infection right after spine fusion surgery because of retained phlegm that wasn't properly expelled after anesthesia.