Nausea can also be from increased pain meds...if you're taking more than you were, due to the increased pain.
I haven't had a fever. Nausea, yes...but it is normally right around when I take my meds...so I have just chalked it up to that. The doctor also said that my level of pain could be contributing to the nausea.
I am sorry to hear that your back is starting to hurt again! Although the fact that you had a pretty uneventful 6 years. I can't wait to get to that point!
My doctor DID warn me that the seroma would most likely re accumulate. There isn't much they can do about it...unless when it re accumulates it is just as severe as this last time.
I just finished a course of Dexamethasone steroids...so they can't put me on anymore for a while. The doctor mentioned calling and checking in on me today...so I will mention that the pain has spread.
Sorry for your pain. You know sometimes we (people with back problems) just have tell our doc LISTEN TO ME I HURT YOU HAVE GOT TO DO SOMETHING!!!!!! Until I did that my dr. just thought I had strained my back until the MRI! Now I have had lower lumbar discectomy in feb and it did get inflammed cause I fell over a reliner that the bottom part was pulled out. The steroids helped. Later I felt better. But now I am worse off. Another MRI Nov 20th. They think I have another herniated disc. I do have DDD. and spurs. I am an anemic and am looking at blood transfusion if counts dont go up. I also have graves disease so I just tell whatever Dr. I am seeing listen to me and then I will listen to you. (after all they get paid) If your Dr. doesnt help go to the ER. Our backs are to precious to limit us from a happy daily living. Demand some answers. Dont leave the office until you get a full understanding of what is going on.
Do you have a fever along with the nausea and chills? If so, I'd call right away. I'd probably still call to let them know that the pain is changing and your other symptoms. I know you don't want to feel like a pain in the @ss, but hey--he is your doctor, and should know what's going on with you.
Seromas often reaccumulate. I had them after my second mastectomy, for many weeks. Mine came back so often I had to have a drain put in (but I don't think they'd do such a thing after a micro-d.
I had a L5-S1 microdiscectomy too, back in 2002, only it went uneventfully. I did have a return of a lot of pain and tingly feelings a couple weeks later, and was similarly put on steroids, which helped. I did have another MRI like 2 or 3 weeks later, but all that was seen was "post operative changes" and no diagnosis could be made of a possible re-rupture. Then everything gradually got better so I'm assuming I didn't have one.
Now, 6 years later, I'm having more problems in my back this week, and a tingly foot. Oh well, I got 6 good years out of it!