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Ok....saw my surgeon today again! So he has agreed that he would remove it......if i really cant cope with the symptoms im having. He said that i dont have typical gallbladder symptoms but said that he has checked everything else and that their is nothing sinister in any of the tests that i have done. That the only thing that has came back postitive is the 2 ultrasounds that i have done which have shown i have significantly thickened gallbladder walls and polyps. He has given me a couple of weeks to think about it and said if i do decide to go ahead with the surgery, their is an 8 week waiting list.Guaranteed they wont go over the 8 week mark. Im kind of worried now as what he said that i dont have the typical gallbladder symptoms.......He said that if i do get it removed, my symptoms may go or stay......im sooo confused now !! My symptoms ares: Digestive problems/ on and off random nausea/ upper abdomen tenderness even where gb is it feels bruised tender when pressed on. Upper back aches/ feeling like a i have a trapped muscle in my right shoulderblade,feeling of tugging/nagging/niggle feelings sensation where gb is/ .generally feeling unwell/fluish and sour upper stomach feelings........it goes on!!! lol Anyone else here have or had a simular story?? Please help! xxx
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It was a very deep sleep. I've had generals before but never seemed to be as knocked out as I was for the gallbladder. I went down at 9.20am, in recovery about 11, back on the ward around 12. There was some pain, mostly where the gallbladder was and it felt a bit like an attack. Not quite as bad as an attack but I could not lay down flat. I'd say the worst of the pain was gone within 24 hours. The incisions weren't painful at all. They'd glued them and covered them in a waterproof glue dressing. There was some bruising underneath I could feel but not too bad. I was home by 4.30 in the afternoon. I was sick only once and that was on the way home but I think it was the car journey. They gave me oramorph but I've used that sparingly because it makes it difficult to pee and makes nausea worse.
It took about a week to get some sort of appetite back. I'm day 12 post op and still have a little discomfort right side but really recovering well considering. Sleep was difficult the first few days mainly due to the gas I think. I used a body pillow and that helped. My appetite is returning to normal now though I get full rather quickly, which is no bad thing for me. I can now eat what I like and I do not appear to have any adverse reaction from the surgery. I have to say, I am totally and utterly relieved to get rid of my gallbladder. I have no regrets whatsoever! If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have been nervous at all.
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samantha1970 vonniexx
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Your symptoms and diagnosis is/was the same as mine. They removed my gallbladder 3 years ago now. Problem is I still get the pain just sometime not as bad. Doctors have ran tests and don't know why 😟
Good luck
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tish54053 vonniexx
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I believe I am going through something similar, It's been going on for nearly 2 years now. I have an array of symptoms. I have or get bloating, pressure, nausea, sometimes vomiting, a horrible headache, and when I am in the midst of the attack the only position I am comfortable is lying flat on my back or standing. if I lay on my sides it reproduces the nausea intensly, more so on the right than left. I can push on my abdomen on the right side and it is tender and sometimes can reproduce the pressure in my head. The place it hurts the most is on my rt. side below the rib cage. If I push it reproduces the nausea. I know I sound like a crazy woman. What baffles me is that this came on suddenly 2 years ago. Lasted for several months, all tests came back negative other than a Hiatal Hernia, GERD and an ulcer. I use to work out regularly too. The only thing that helped was giving up gluten and I began to get better. A couple months ago I started eating yogurt again for a few weeks and then bam, attack 2 came on and I am having another one now. Having the symptoms I described above and just feeling sick.
With my attack a month ago went to see GI's NP and she said that GI issues can be difficult to diagnose because the symptomes relate to so many issues. When all tests are negative its generally IBS. A month ago I believed her, but now with this attack I still feel its my gallbladder. Oh, I gave up dairy a month ago.
Through talking with friends I have heard of 3 cases where 1 woman was sick for 2 years, kept having attacks people were saying it was in her head and then finally they caught it in a flareup and it was her appendix. The second case a woman went through years of feeling sick, Md's said it was aniety and Psychotic episodes, they eventually took out her gallbladder and everything cleared up and she was fine. The last case was a man sick for 2 years they couldn't find anything then turned out to be his gallbladder and is fine now.
Then you come on these discussions and see sometimes the people are sometimes worse after having their gallbladder out so what do you do? I wish I had the answer.
When I am in the midst of an attack I just want to go beg to take out my gallbladder. Right now I am day 5 of being sick and my husband want me to go to MD or ER again and I say why so they can run a bunch of tests and tell me nothings wrong.
I am considering going to an endocrineologist as I am approaching 45 and wondering what affect the hormones have on the GI tract.
I know what is going on is not anxiety, I feel its not IBS. Iknow there is something going on it just needs to get caught. I know my body and who I am and things just don't make sense.
I am not an MD but I feel that I would want to be sure its my gallbladder before having it removed. Have you gone for a second opinion?
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