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Hi everyone. Been gone awhile. Had my baby 2.5 weeks ago. Docs did it early, as they were worried by my symptoms. Went fine, baby is great.
I have a question. Since the surgery, I've had some weird symptoms. Don't know if they're heart related, c-section related, or new.
What has me worried is that I woke up a few days ago with a sore left thumb. It got worse over a few days, getting swollen, stiff, and more painful. When it started looking mottled at the base, purplish at the tip, and the tip felt cold, I went to the ER. They did an xray, just in case, and said there was no evidence of injury, or a foreign body, or tissue damage, or infection. They did a white blood cell count. Never told me the results, but I assume it was negative.
The doc put my thumb in a splint to "rest" it, gave me antibiotics "just in case", since I have a bicuspid valve, and told me to come back if it got worse. Today it was worse. The discoloration was better, but the pain was worse, and seemed to settle into my middle thumb joint. They took blood samples to rule out gout (won't hear back on that til Monday). Then I noticed spots on my thumbnail. The doc said it could be splinter hemorrhages, and to call my cardio on Monday.
After reading a bit on here, I'm thinking it might be endocarditis. They don't think it is, because I had a chest xray earlier this week that was normal, and didn't see any indications of infection. But I know one member on here posted that her husband's test results were all negative too, until he had a blood serum test done.
The pain is really bad tonight, even with vicodin and ibuprofen.
Could this still be endocarditis? I don't feel all that bad. Should I wait til monday, or go to the same day clinic and demand a blood serum culture?
Thanks!
I have a question. Since the surgery, I've had some weird symptoms. Don't know if they're heart related, c-section related, or new.
What has me worried is that I woke up a few days ago with a sore left thumb. It got worse over a few days, getting swollen, stiff, and more painful. When it started looking mottled at the base, purplish at the tip, and the tip felt cold, I went to the ER. They did an xray, just in case, and said there was no evidence of injury, or a foreign body, or tissue damage, or infection. They did a white blood cell count. Never told me the results, but I assume it was negative.
The doc put my thumb in a splint to "rest" it, gave me antibiotics "just in case", since I have a bicuspid valve, and told me to come back if it got worse. Today it was worse. The discoloration was better, but the pain was worse, and seemed to settle into my middle thumb joint. They took blood samples to rule out gout (won't hear back on that til Monday). Then I noticed spots on my thumbnail. The doc said it could be splinter hemorrhages, and to call my cardio on Monday.
After reading a bit on here, I'm thinking it might be endocarditis. They don't think it is, because I had a chest xray earlier this week that was normal, and didn't see any indications of infection. But I know one member on here posted that her husband's test results were all negative too, until he had a blood serum test done.
The pain is really bad tonight, even with vicodin and ibuprofen.
Could this still be endocarditis? I don't feel all that bad. Should I wait til monday, or go to the same day clinic and demand a blood serum culture?
Thanks!