How long after taking antibiotics, do your symptoms subside? I started antibiotics yesterday, my fever is higher than its been the whole time I've been sick : / The doctor hasn't called me back, I've left 3 messages...

Antibiotics should start working with 24-48 hours at most. As long as your fever isn't over 104 and does not continue to rise, you can probably continue to wait for that call-back. If it keeps going up or gets as high as 104, please just go to the emergency room.

Gina, call that answering service and tell them it's an emergency and you need to speak to your Dr right away. If he still doesn't call back in a half hour: 1. Go to the ER, better safe then sorry 2. Get a new Dr. I just recently switched my Dr because I couldn't get him to call back till I told his answering service that I was dropping him as my Dr. Then, within a half hour after switching, he called me wondering why he wasn't able to put the request for a specialist through....well, DUH!