Gall bladder attached to liver

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I had my gall bladder removed in March this year after nearly a year of attacks and infections. No one said anything to me after surgery, but after still feeling ill post surgery and returning to my GP he informed me that mine had to be cut out. It had attached itself to my liver and they had to cut scar tissue away. I am only now starting to feel human again. Are you experiencing any issues since its removal? Wishing you a speedy recovery.

I just found your post when I googled to find out why this happened to me . I suffered excruciating attacks for over a year but tried to control them through diet . It worked for a while and then one day they started again . I had a lap chole done Wednesday and was expecting it to be easy recovery. Instead I had a searing pain where my liver and gall bladder joined . I knew my surgery was longer than anticipated and they called my husband to delay picking me up because I had bleeding issues but nobody told me anything went wrong . Friday I couldn't take the pain anymore so I went back to the hospital and was admitted for ct scans. That's when I was informed that my gall bladder had been so scarred from frequent attacks that it attached to my liver . Removing it caused bleeding which was cauterized . I was fortunate to have a liver specialist on the team . They did  a CT scan this morning to make sure I was not still bleeding and that no abscess had formed . For a while there it looked like they were going to open me up again. I was also running a fever of 101 . Had I not gone back to the ER in pain I may never have known this had happened . 

Hi Angela

I was looking at this and also at the reply karla54547 posted - so similar to my experience as well.

I started off having severe pain just below my rib cage and had to be  taken by ambulance to the emergency department.

They couldn't get any intravenous liquid into me because my blood pressure was so high the liquid back of the tube,  that was the pain I presume.  Once in hospital a few tests were done and medical staff on duty decided that it was a severe case of gastroenteritis.

In the next few months I had quite a few severe attacks of pain mainly below the rib cage again,  and my doctor presumed it was down to gastric reflux problems.

A few months later It was only when I had a fever and woke up yellow the next day,  I was admitted into hospital and tested.

Over the next 4 months I had ultrasound, an MRI and an ERCP to examine and scrape the bile ducts.I couldn't get a definitive answer from anyone as to what had been found but what was was definite was that people telling me different things - as in nothing had been found to limps in my gall bladder and gallstones found. 

I went along with it as I was then put on waiting list to have my gallbladder removed  which actually happened due to a cancellation  of somebody else's operation 6 months later. 

After the removal was in absolute agony for the next 2 days  and was taken down for another operation  after which I ended up in intensive care for two days,  mainly due too low blood pressure, I presume it it was due to the bleeding that caused hypovolemic shock.  It was when the surgeon was called in at midnight due to my condition that we had a proper discussion, and he said that I had a deeply embedded gallbladder and there was a lot of blood loss.  The blood loss appears to have mainly been stemmed by the use of a gauze attached to the liver, a drainage tube had also been inserted due to bile leaking into my abdomen.

A month later I went to see the surgeon for a follow up and asked for more detail and he said that besides the gallbladder being very adhered to the Liver,  there was hematoma and an abscess that had developed between gallbladder and liver. 

Like Karla I seem to have the experience of being shielded from the actual facts at the time. Not happy about that all,  I'm assuming that the gallbladder  had become adhered to the liver by scar tissue because of the number of attacks that I had waiting and that the abscess was probably caused by the worsening and infected gallbladder.

It sounds pretty rough when you read through the events, it's taken me the best part of a year to actually stop feeding nauseous most of the time.  I'm not too bad now because I was very very before the time of the operation but I've definitely lost an edge because of it.  Also interested to find out how Karla is getting on seen as she had approximately the same symptoms.

 The one thing that comes out of this is that if anybody suspects they have gallbladder problems, they need to go and get it sorted out as quickly as possible before the adherence and other complications begin to kick in.....

I know that this is an old discussion. However, I found it whilst looking to see if other people had their gallbladder fused to their liver. One thing that I have wondered about, is that I also have endometriosis (the doctor who removed my endometrial tissue years ago told me it was the worst he had ever seen). Endometriosis is scar tissue from blood in the uterus, and it also fuses things together and it can travel outside of the uterus. It is a disease that not much is known about.

Anyway, I had my gallbladder out around 12 years ago after months of debilitating attacks that felt like i was having a heart attack. I had tests - every kind. They couldn't find out what was wrong with me, with my doctor at the time, telling me that I had gastritis and I would have to live with it. I was angered and shocked that this was my diagnosis. And then I had such a bad attack that I passed out from the pain and taken to the ER in an ambulance. I was kept in and had surgery early the next morning. I remember none of this. I was told that my gallbladder was fused to my liver. The surgeon, who I met only twice - once when he operated on me and once for about five minutes in a haze the next morning. I asked the dr if my gallbladder problem was due to the fact that i had endometriosis - he briefly and quickly dismissed that notion. I was sent home with no information. After I had the gallbladder removed, I immediately started having massive diarrhea after the first meal of the day. And to this day, I live with it.

I'm on this site to see if there are any things I can do to help me ensure I get the proper nutrients and assistance to ensure my body is functioning properly. But I wanted to tell you my story when I saw this because I do wonder about the connection between endometriosis and what happened to me - and maybe this will enlighten others with the same issues.