Feeling down about being ill and update from last posts

Thankyou so much for your reply katherine and yes its the hardest thing to go through and im so sorry you are going through the same. What kind of symptoms do you get? Ive now started getting new symptoms where the pain radiates from the top right down to the bottom right past belly button and hurts all over the right side now and has really been getting me down. Are you in pain all the time with you symptoms aswell? I feel so sorry for you having to try and do your own bussiness feeling so unwell like this. I know how you feel, ive never been ill like this before and it has really made me feel so upset. At first i thought i was doing ok but the longer it goes on it just gets more worrying. I always worry incase other things are going on to because the pain gets so bad and its all the time aswell. I hope your surgery goes well and keep me updated xx

Hi Carmella, they thought I had gallstones last May but since then I've been having tests and just before Christmas I'd had it confirmed that my gallbladder is only working at 14%. I find the pain is constant, I wake up with it and go to bed with it but it gets steadily worse after I eat. Pain under the ribs on the right hand side going into the back and upto the shoulders. Its all tender on the right under my ribs that I can't  bear it if my husband puts a hand there, it makes me just away cos its very tender. I've found that over these months that the pain has increased to a new levels which I'm now finding really hard to put up with but I expect its a little anxiety too since surgery isn't too long away. I've got my pre-op appointment tomorrow morning to go through everything. Is that how you find yours? Worry doesn't help does it but then it is only natural. I find it easier staying at home and then I can get up or curl up in a ball if I need too and sleep. Are you tired all the time? I do worry when I get short, sharp, stabbing pains, they don't last for long but it does take my breath away that things maybe getting worse. My painkillers don't work that well but they do take the worst of it away but only if I take the full dose which makes me go all light headed, I suppose your the same.

Give me a message tomorrow to let me know how you are, then we can help each other through it. It will get better, so try to do something that makes you smile. Take care.

I feel the way katherine i wake up with the pain and it lasts all day until i go sleep thats what worries me aswell because its been getting worse i even get pain that goes from upper right to lower right now aswell and goes up my back and same as you my anxiety does not help with it all. I just cant wait to feel normal again i never new there was so much symptoms with this. I also get so tired that i cant keep my eyes open and i have to sleep or lay down alot. I also get the sharp pains ect and i always have this dull ache all the time which gets worse through out the day, i get so weak and light headed likke dizzy feeling and its like a flu type symptom is the best way i can explain it. I hope everything goes well for you tomorrow and keep me updated ill give you a message aswell and keep you updated take care xx

thanks Carmella. Yes I understand the dizzy feeling. Its strange as its getting closer I'm trying to tidy up bits of the house like the spare bedroom so I can go in there if I can't sleep so I don't disturb my husband!

Chin up Carmella we'll get there. I'll speak to you tomorrow.

Hi katherine ive managed to get a doctors appointment today to tell them about more of my symptoms ive been getting and hopefully might find out some test results but think its to early for the test results as they said next week. but ill keep updated and let me know how your pre op went today and keep me updated hope all went well xx

Hi Carmella, thats good you've managed to get an appointment, I hope you get on alright and let me know what they say.

Thats the mrcp results isn't it? When I had mine they said it would be 3 weeks but when I got the results from my consultant  they'd been looked at within a week, it was just a delay in getting a letter typed and posted. hopefully they'll have yours so you'll know if you have any other stones.

Everything went fine thanks at the pre op, just the usual stuff and more blood tests encase they have to do a blood transfusion, which is all a bit worrying but I know they have to tell people everything these days. Its funny when they ask if you have any questions, I don't really as I've done so much research online the only questions I have are for the anaesthestist as last time I had a general anaethestic I was really sick afterwards so I'm hoping they can give me something so I don't feel so rough afterwards as I really want to come home afterwards and not have to stay in overnight.

Good luck at the doctors and let me know. x

hi  katherine im happy all went well with your pre op thats the same thing i would say about the feeling sick after i hate feeling sick or being sick but i think then can give you something for that if you let them no before the op I went to the doctors but they still have no results not till next tuesday time but they wanted me to do another urine sample as the last one had white blood cells in and ill get the results back for that plus blood test results next week to. I told them about the extra symptoms ive been having to like the pain lower down the stomach and they said they will check the urine results and everything to see if its normal then ive got to book another appointment to go back again. I just hate the waiting for results incase anything else is happening. Happy you got all your pre op sorted today though and ill keep you up to date when i find out my results next week. Also keep me updated with you to from carmella xx

Thankyou so much for your reply margaret. I have been having the worst time with the pain and it just seems to be getting worse as its all the time now and really worries me incase anything else is going on aswell and then i feel really down I just hope i feel better after the surgery and to be able to get my life back. I will keep you updated thankyou so much again for your reply means alot from carmella x

Carmella,

?Big hugs to you.  You will feel so much better after the surgery.  Sure, you'll be sore at first, but that will go away after a few days to a week. 

?In the meantime, take it easy and relax. 

Thankyou so much i just cant wait for the surgery now and start to feel better it is so hard being in this much pain for this long and still having to wait but like you said hopefully i will feel better soon thanks again  

Thankyou so much for your reply and i feel really sorry for him having to go through this and like you said everything seems to take so long waiting for results when your in this much pain. Im going back to the doctors again today to check up on some of these extra symptoms ive been getting ive been getting left side pain and neck pain also lower right stomach pain aswsell now so just want to get it checked while im waiting for blood test results to. It is the worse pain and i dont no why they let people be in this much pain for this long hope your husband feels better soon and you get everything sorted from carmella x