when is cause for concern? I'm 7 days post op from gallbladder surgery today and 6 months post op lap band. tonight I started having pain at one incision and pain where a drainage tube was inserted, not on skin, inside. Low grade fever. My paperwork from hospital (had to stay overnight from surgery last Monday night to Tues because of drainage tube) said if I ran a fever of 101. to call but now its been a week, is there need for concern now? This just started around 5:30 tonight. My surgeon that did my lapband also did my gallbladder and he is on call 24/7 and would return my call I just hate to bother him with a low grade fever yet if something is wrong like an infection...??? Any suggestions?

Call the doctor so you can relax and know what is going on!

I would call.....can't hurt....

ok thank ladies, guess it wouldn't hurt and I don't want my fever to get too high later on tonight and then have my mom run me to ER and then I will have to wake him up, yikes! Thanks again.

Feel better donna

when is cause for concern? I'm 7 days post op from gallbladder surgery today and 6 months post op lap band. tonight I started having pain at one incision and pain where a drainage tube was inserted' date=' not on skin, inside. Low grade fever. My paperwork from hospital (had to stay overnight from surgery last Monday night to Tues because of drainage tube) said if I ran a fever of 101. to call but now its been a week, is there need for concern now? This just started around 5:30 tonight. My surgeon that did my lapband also did my gallbladder and he is on call 24/7 and would return my call I just hate to bother him with a low grade fever yet if something is wrong like an infection...??? Any suggestions?[/quote']

Call him right away!

I called and one of his nurses called me back and he told her since my fever was only 99.5 he thought I would be alright for tonight and for me to call his office in the morning and come in if I got worse. When I got concerned my fever was 99.5 then it went down to 99 then it is back up to 99.5 again so maybe it will stay there and not spike during the night. I am on antibiotics since surgery last week. My temp always runs low for me anyway like 97, I'm never normal temp of 98.6, heck I"m not normal...lol ya'll know that! ha. Thanks guys.

Well, at about 11:00 tonight my fever got up to 100.6 finally I took some Tylenol and here it is 12:43 and its back down to 99.4, we'll see what the night brings.