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anonymous

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Anyone have trouble with persistant fevers during a round of IV antibiotics? I've experienced this every time for about four years: about a week into the round I feel good, but then I start spiking 102 or 103 temperatures that recur until I go off the meds. After much debate (with me), the doc finally came to the conclusion that the meds themselves are responsible for this -- but that since I need the meds, all I can do is try to control the fevers. Easy for him to say. I really start to go downhill once they hit.

I haven't found a lot about this on the web -- only stuff about actual allergies to the drugs, which I don't have. I suspect my body just ain't handling the meds as well as it once did, yet the bloodwork shows I'm clearing them normally. The meds in question are always one aminoglycoside -- tobra, or amikacin -- and some beta-lactum or other -- usually ceftaz or imapenem. But it's happened with every combination so far.

Does this story sound familiar to anyone? If so, what solutions did you try?

Elly/31
 
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anonymous

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Do you happen to have b. cepacia and if so, aren't fevers just part of it?
I'm not denying that the IV's are causing the fevers, but the b. cepacia could certainly be contributing too, couldn't it?
 
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WinAce

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For the record, I'm not Anonymous, have B. cepacia, and yes, experience fevers on IV drugs a week or two into the treatment that never go away until I stop using them. Mine, however, are more in the 99.x range, and rarely break a 100 (still leaving me feeling like crap, though). They drive me batty, especially when docs deny 99.5--which I NEVER get ordinarily, and which leaves me feeling chills, aches and every other fever symptom--is a "real fever"!
 
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anonymous

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Thanks for input, Win. Yeah, 99.5 is real enough, esp. if your normal temp runs on the low side like mine. So I guess you just try to ride it out till the course ends. Do you think the meds are behind the fevers? Seems like after a few weeks you should be less rather than more prone to them. Like you, I almost never run a fever except when on the meds -- so the cause doesn't seem to be a huge mystery to me. Still, once they hit, the fevers are so high they begin to negate whatever benefit I got from the meds in the first place. My amateur's solution is to shorten the course, but the docs, as you might guess, aren't down with that idea.

El
 
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blindhearted

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After having IVs for a week I would get Drug Fever. Which of course is a reaction from the medicine, maybe how powerful they are. I am always on Tobra, Fortaz or Vanc. at pretty high doses when this happens, but all my levels are normal. I have a normal temp at the beginning of that session, half way in my temp would get to 101 to 102, they would give me 2 Tylenol (500 mg each) and keep me at the hospital for 30 to an hour after the session was completed and my temp had dropped below 100. It was this way until I finished the IV treatment, whether it would be two or three weeks. I get drug fever really bad...happens everytime I'm on IVs for the past few years. Like you I have no b. cepacia but other multi-resistant strains. Hope this helps.
 
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