Forgive me, I don't mean to sound overly concerned, but I find it inexcusable that your neurologist is allowing you to wait around for another three weeks with an active infection, where your fever is being contained only by relatively large amounts of Tylenol (acetaminophen) over a comparatively long period of time, essentially a month.

And to put just the Tylenol into perspective, the maximum daily adult dose that's allowed is just one pill above what you are taking: 4,000 mg. That, and "[w]ithout intervention, about half the people who swallowed a single dose of 12 to 15 grams could die." "Poisonings From a Popular Pain Reliever Are Rising," Deborah Franklin, The New York Times, November 29, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/29/he...cations&st=cse By comparison were I to quadrouple my daily dose of Oxycontin, I strongly doubt that I would be facing a 50% mortality risk.

A month on 3,000 mg. of acetaminophen/day is not to be taken lightly. But being asked to hang out there with an active infection for which you are not being offered any treatment (even if there was a chance that might first require a culture based on a spinal tap) is worse.

Please call the PM doc and let her know what's going on.

Mike