Queen, when my appendix burst, I wasn't put on antibiotics long enough and an infection wandered around my innards for 5 months. I was in the hospital for a week in the middle there, on drip antibiotics (and no food) and that still didn't get rid of it. I know about that pain! My whites were up too, why I ended up in the hospital for a week. But after I got out, I still wasn't given enough antibiotics and my new primary care guy, I told him the whole story and he said I wasn't on them long enough so put me on Levaquin for a MONTH and that just pissed off the infection (but, for the first time since my appendix had burst 3-4 months earlier, gave me back my appetite) and it wandered into my ovaries and my surgeon was going to operate again but I had learned "enough" that I gave him a list of anaerobic antibiotics, like the Flagyl I turned out to be allergic to (what caused the whole problem) and one of them did the trick, cleared up the whole thing so I didn't have to be operated on again.

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch178/ch178j.html