Typical wait for removal of gallbladder?

As for recovery, if it's keyhole it's not too bad. I am day 8 and starting to feel much better and back to my normal self. I still can't eat big meals and my digestion hasn't quite settled yet but I'm improving every day. Sorry to write two messages lol.

Jees, could have a bloody long wait then 😩. Fingers crossed the blasted stones don't jiggle too much then, thanks lisa x

I have had random pain (can't specify and foods that trigger it at all) for the last 7 years on and off but thankfully not too frequently until recently therefore I went to the doctors as I had ignored it previously! Not sure how I ignored it but guess as it wasn't very often I put up with it 😫. I am no wuss and when I say it is the worst pain I have ever felt, and I have had 4 caesarians, you may get an idea of the pain. I know when it is happening as it starts with a funny back/windy pain and then within 5 minutes I am literally on the bathroom floor in agony, sweating profusely and praying that I'm not dying - fortunately mine tends to dissapear within around 30 minutes otherwise I would absolutely be down a and e!! Hope this helps 😊 X

Major pain is definitely concentrated just under my rib cage on the right therefore gallstones is the first thing they looked for and found loads!! L x

Sure. For me it started with pain and bloating. The pain was right sided under my ribs. At first I put it down to tight waist bands and poor fitting bras. I thought it was trapped wind and or heartburn. This was before the attacks started properly. I felt full quite quickly and unable to go out for a meal and have a desert for example. The only way to describe it is like a stitch. The stitch like pain and discomfort didn't really go and was there most of the time but I just got used to it. It feels like having a small fist under the ribs. Not always painful but a constant awareness of something just there that shouldn't be.

When the actual attacks started the pain was intense. Going from a stitch and discomfort to a real gripping pain. A bit like a stitch in a vice grip. Swollen stomach, very tender to touch and a feeling like something was stuck. You kind of feel that you should break wind, pee, deficate, vomit and pee all at the same time with a shed load of burning acid and if you could relieve all of those things, maybe it could take the pressure off.

The attacks lasted from 20 mins to a couple of hours at first and always in the evening or overnight. They would just suddenly stop as well and i could go from rolling round on the floor in agony to carrying on like nothing happened within a few minutes. I didn't go to the doctor because I didn't think he'd be able to do much unless he saw me mid attack. Sometimes I could go a few months between attacks. In fact I went 5 months from my last attack to getting cholecystitis. The week before I got cholecystitis, I was feeling pretty good and was able to eat more than I had done, so I did, and paid the price lol.

When I was in hospital with cholecystitis, on the third day, whatever was stuck suddenly shifted. I woke in the morning and felt like I was falling backwards and I was suddenly very sick and it seemed like gallons of dark green, very thick sludge. The burning was awful and they gave me lanzopizol and I could then start to feel the relief lifting. Suddenly I was able to use the toilet properly. It's weird and hard to explain but it felt as if the top half of my stomach wasn't working with the bottom half and everything felt stuck across the middle and unable to move down. I was so bloated and uncomfortable. First I had an ultrasound and they discovered the stones and thickened gallbladder. By day 3, the day I felt something give, my blood results took a turn for the worst which confused me as I was starting to feel better. Hospital panicked a bit, changed my iv antibiotics and I needed oxygen for some strange reason. I went for an emergency MRI scan then and they found my bile duct was Swollen but no stone there. I'd had a stone there but luckily I passed it. I ended up staying in hospital for 9 days before I begged to go home. My liver function tests were still deranged and stayed that way. It still took 7 months for them to take the bloody thing out, even after all of that!

Actually as you have had a baby recently, remember baby feet under the ribs? That's how having a gallbladder full of stones felt every day without an attack. Also loads of stomach noises, gargling like mad. Sorry it's long. It's quite hard to explain. Lol

Thanks Lisa will see what happens mines only just started 3 months ago so could be in very early stages! Do you remember is this how you started off? With the symptoms I'm describing x

Can't remember really, a long time ago since it all started - just thought I was dying 😜 X

Thanks Lisa will let you know how I get on your a star I hope your much better now x

I'm sure there is some Lisa confusion going on haha 👍, good luck getting sorted x

Mines more heartburn belching after eating right rib cage lower part is tender sometimes also pain right breast bone x

I literally have no other symptoms other than the near death experiences when they happen - no gas, heartburn, tenderness or nothing. Luckily x

That's good it's all sorted but real sorry to hear you had such a bad time Hun x

Definitely some confusion. Sorry if I wasn't meant to reply. All the best anyway :-)

And to you x

Doing much better thanks. I realised that I had to get up and about more yesterday because my digestion was really sluggish and I was feeling terribly bloated and nauseated. I slept better than I have in weeks last night and I *think* things are begining to settle down now at last. It's really such a relief that it's gone. I won't miss it lol x

👍, looking forward to getting my bugger out too - the fear of the pain is enough to scare me off eating crap for a while (just in case!) x

Indeed! I lost almost 4 stone in 7 months avoiding as much fat as possible. I sympathise I really do x

A couple of stone will do me 👍 X