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Post-nephrectomy Fever

Dnipro
Dnipro CSN Member Posts: 10 Member
in Kidney Cancer #1

Greetings,

I had my partial nephrectomy surgery last Tuesday and I was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday evening.

The first night home I developed a fever of about 101F. I called my surgery’s nurse hotline where they advised me to go to the ER if the fever reaches 101.5F.

The fever has been coming and going. During daytime it is about 100F and falls to 99.5F during evening hours. It has never been higher than 101F so I didn’t yet go to the ER.

I am wondering if anyone had a similar experience? Should I go to the ER anyway if the intermittent fever does not stop by Monday? Tonight the fever never got above 99.6F.

P.S. I was prescribed hydrocodone-acetaminophen pills which I take every 6 hours.

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