ZenArcher
Senior member
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2007
- Messages
- 676
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 02/2007
- Country
- US
- State
- PA
- City
- McEwensville
For the past few days I've felt basically horrible. After a feeding I would feel slightly nauseous, my stomach would feel warm like I had hot coffee, I was lethargic and shivering but I neither felt like nor measured a fever. My initial concern was an infection but with no fever that didn't make sense. The thermometer actually said 97 which is low for me so I figured I had the stomach bug that was going around.
To make a long story short don't trust those cheap CVS thermometer completely. I went to my GP today and as soon as they took my temperature I knew what was wrong. Where we had been getting 97 they got 99. I know that's a small difference but I know me. My body was fighting something. My PEG wasn't sore, didn't itch, only occasionally gucked up the gauze and appeared to me to only be red under the stand-offs but the way I felt and the low grade fever told a different story. Now I'm on cephalexin, two teaspoons three times a day for ten days.
Moral of the story is pay attention to all the indications. I let a $5 thermometer talk me out of what I thought was true. In return I will feel like crap a little longer. Lesson learned.
Yes ... we bought a better thermometer although it was from CVS :?
To make a long story short don't trust those cheap CVS thermometer completely. I went to my GP today and as soon as they took my temperature I knew what was wrong. Where we had been getting 97 they got 99. I know that's a small difference but I know me. My body was fighting something. My PEG wasn't sore, didn't itch, only occasionally gucked up the gauze and appeared to me to only be red under the stand-offs but the way I felt and the low grade fever told a different story. Now I'm on cephalexin, two teaspoons three times a day for ten days.
Moral of the story is pay attention to all the indications. I let a $5 thermometer talk me out of what I thought was true. In return I will feel like crap a little longer. Lesson learned.
Yes ... we bought a better thermometer although it was from CVS :?