Question:
Help! I am having surgery tomorrow and I took my antibiotic

at 4&5pm it made me sick to my stomach and I finally threw up at 10:20pm and I am due for another dose at 11pm. I don't know of I can even swallow it. It makes me sick just knowing I have to take it one more time.    — Bonnie S. (posted on January 7, 2002)

January 7, 2002
I wasn't pre-medicated with antibiotics, so I am not sure if that is what it is for, but I don't see why they couldn't give you IV antibiotics before and/or after. (I was given only postop IV antibiotics during hospitalization.) It will provide an immediate effect. If it made you that sick, you may have an allergy to the medicine, or a sensitivity to it. Your doctor should be on call and could tell you what to do. I would say not to take the last dose, if you are just going to throw it up. It seems pointless. I know your biggest fear is probably that they will cancel the surgery, but I am sure that there is a way around this by giving you the IV antibiotics tomorrow preoperatively. Just take a deep breath. Good luck tomorrow.
   — Jennifer P.

January 8, 2002
I did too, called the doc and it didnt delay surgery. Good luck tomorrow and with the beginning of the BEST part of your life!
   — bob-haller