My wife recently had a back spinal fusion surgery. Ever since the surgery she has had a viral infection, according to her personal doctor. She has fever, vomiting, dizziness, and this has been going on for 2 months and no end in sight. Her doctor says it just needs to be waited out. I think that is BS. There must be a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases. Can anyone give me some leads? We are in the Seattle area with some great hospitals, I know. My wife is allergic to penicillin and its various forms, BTW.|||you need an infectious disease doctor try calling your local hospital and ask for infectious disease doctors name and numbers or ask you insurance provider antibiotics are not used to treat viruses|||For one, if it is truly a virus infecting your wife, penicillin wouldn't help anyway, as antibiotics treat bacterial infection, not viral infection. With viruses, there is no cure, and one does simply have to "wait it out" until the body adapts and is able to fight it off. That is not to say that there aren't ways of enhancing your body's ability to fight, but viruses don't have cures.
There are doctors that specialize in infectious disease, that, at least at my hospital, we just call ID (infection disease) doctors. I don't know anything about medicine in the Seattle area though, sorry. But look into seeing an infectious disease doctor.|||There are a few viruses we have antiviral drugs for. These drugs tend to be very disease specific and usually only marginally effective. Most viruses there is nothing you can do but "wait and see".
I'm not sure how you would get a viral infection from spinal fusion surgery. A bacterial infection would be more likely. Unless we are talking hepatitis?
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