Gall Bladder Surgery (Removal)
August 21, 2010 siotha
So. it’s been 8 years. They said my gall bladder may eventually have to come out. they said, it could happen anytime. Oh, and well my friends, it did. I thought it was bad greasy heartburn food (mom’s good ole greasy meals) that I’d had for dinner. The first night, I went to bed, woke up no problem. a few nights later, I wasn’t so lucky. I went to an ER, and nothing was found, no stones on the sonogram, no inflamation of the Gall bladder. As with many dr’s they were curious about my tummy, and if i’d messed up my surgery – so of course – they checked there too. I told them that wasn’t my problem, did they listen? No, they still ran a $2000 set of scans, labs, and bothersome annoyances that now i have to plead with insurance to cover. Nothing was found on this visit. Clean bill of health, and strangely, after the medicine wore off they’d given me at the clinic. No pain. Boy i felt silly. They sent me home with some nausea meds and more pain meds if needed. Nope, I don’t need them. And then I had dinner. Ugh, it started again. 3 or 4 days went by and the pain was managed with very low doses of pain meds, so I went on the previously planned trip, to TN for a shockingly short visit, and extremely long drive home. 2 days into the trip, I started getting nauseous…. and the pain started getting worse. I cried, i couldn’t sleep, I was miserable. I was unable to lift, sit, stand, lay, think, or move – with full pain medicine given. Came back, went to the ER again. This doctor was exceptionally crappy. Loaded me up on more pain medicine, sent me home. I saw a surgeon the next morning, he said I was classic gall bladder, symptoms in my upper right abdomen, progressively getting worse, clean labs, no infections, no stones on ultrasound…. but that this would only get worse if we didn’t do something about it, since it was now about 2 weeks from the original attack. I had a laproscopic procedure, not too bad. Not great. It could take a couple of weeks to get back up to speed, but for now, I’m at home resting until, the pain goes away, and we can see how helpful surgery was or wasn’t.
Here’s a great diagram:
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