I feel as if I coming down with a sore throat and my surgery is this Friday....What should I do? Can you take antiobiotics prior to surgery?

You should just call the doctor doing the surgery and ask. I would not think that would stop you from having the surery. But a sore throat could.

ok..sorry to break it to you but if it doesnt go away you cant have the surgery. but im not positive if you're allowed to take antibiotics. i know my doctor wont let us take anything except tylenol because it doesnt cause more bleeding during the surgery. try tylenol and see what happens. you might just think it in your head because i did the same thing. i though i was getting sick but it was in my head

My four year old got strep throat 2 weeks before my surgery..so guess what..about a week before my surgery, I got it too. I called my primary doctor and explained that the surgery was coming up so without seeing me or anything she prescribed some high powered antibiotics and I got in 3 or 4 days of them prior to the surgery. My surgeon then put me on another full dose after the surgery. All went well!

I will tell you what happened to me. I came down with a slight cold the Friday before my Tuesday surgery. I called the surgeon's office, and they said they needed to postpone the surgery because you are at increased risk under anesthesia with anything respiratory going on, and Anesthesia won't touch you. My surgery was postponed a week. My cold was gone by the Monday before my original date. I had contemplated not telling them, but I am glad I did. An extra week on the pre-op liquid diet (not enough time to stop and restart for 2 weeks) was the only downside, and that wasn't all that bad. I was used to it by then, and managed to lose 25 lbs before surgery, so it wasn't all bad.

I know what you mean. Tomorrow is my surgery and this past friday i came down with sinus drainage and sore throat, by sunday the sore throat had went away, but i still have a slight cough and little bit of sinus drainage, my pcp said yesterday that its allergies. Surgeon seen me today and didnt say anything about postponing. Good Luck!!

Happy to hear that your sore throat cleared up so quickly...I am going to see my PCP tomorrow

Best of luck with your surgery tomorrow and it all goes well I also will be a bandster on Friday : )