Has your gallbladder been removed? Is the result good? Y or N?

Any suggestions to help with my bloating Iam 3 wks post op and eating very little and low fat. I starting with the bloating and gas 5 mo ago and haven’t been able to get rid of it.

Hi you should go back to see your consultant and discuss that shadow further for sure and have more tests more ultrasound MRI and ct scans to try and work out what the shadow is , then when they discover what it is you should seriously consider their advice .

Oh also I had a dark shadow in the neck of my gallbladder and it turned out to be a 2.3cm stone stuck in the neck, I too was very very scared of the surgery and let things go for 3 years very bad move,

i ended up in pain on another level for a long time with all sorts of problems when I had it out 4 weeks ago I had no choice the surgeon told me I had hours to days to live after a ct scan the day before.

and after he told me it was completely infected and full of puss , and gangrene and if I didn't go get the ct scan the day before ide likely be dead right now.

these things are not a joke , please get tests done and deal with it I'm lucky to be alive.

the worst thing it's done to me is made me pretty mentally ill with living with the fear of it killing me ,like it near did.its like walking around with a psycho behind you with a loaded gun pointed at the back of yr head and you know he's going to kill you at some point ,but you just don't know when !!

thats how I've lived for the past 3 years and it's messed my mind up .

please try to make the right decision for you.

now I'm at home trying to recover, which hopefully I will , and if I do then I have to fix my mind .

ive now learnt the hard way rhese things cannot be left and sometimes we have to be brave , which is hard if your a coward like I have been for 3 years .

i know something though , the way I have lived the last 3 years I would have been better off dead, it's been a sad 3 years.

dont leave it to long would be my advise .

all the best to you.

I am so glad and grateful that you wrote so many valuable experience of you to me.  Thanks to have such stage to share experience with everybody.

My Appt. Will be next month. I am getting brave and going to do it because my gallbladder problem is similar as you , has a dark shadow at the neck of it, shadow area is 2.9 cm now.  I know it will cause other problems after remove it. Such as: it will boost the chance of colon cancer( I read some articles); it will cause indigestion and so on. So we need to avoid the red meat to reduce the colon cancer and a flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 yrs. exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy weight . I know you will be recovered and get better and better.  

Thank you so much for your sharing!!!!!

Sandy.

bless you.

im hopping that most of my problems now are in my head as I do worry much more so than the average as a result of my 3 year journey to honest.

i mean my original diagnosis was the stones and the dark shadow in the neck that no one could seemingly tell me what it was ,and as a worry wart I immediately thought the worst ,and asked the consultant outright ,are you insinuating this could be a tumer ,to which she replied ,well could be who knows I cannot predict the future !!

and fron that day on I have been and convinced myself it was cancer, 

'so you can imagine what 3 years of that has done to my mind .

but because I couldn't get a solid diagnosis I refused to have it out as I was getting different diagnosis from one month to the next.

and I now wish to god I just said then and their .get it out of me now lol.

but that's my mind and I was so scared,

ive been a coward and it near cost me my life !!

i think I'm doing ok quote think.

their goes my lovely negative mind again.

my incisions have all healed lovely I mean healed,with no infections.

i still have slight pains under right rib area on and off and the odd sharp shooting pains around that area ,that are a bit freaky,to me anyway !

some mild to moderate upper back aches ,seems every time I try to do any kind of manual work within ten or so minutes,this goes within ten minutes of laying down.

ive not had indigestion at all.

i am nauseous quite bad on and off but much better last 3 days.

mild punched in the tummy feeling seems to have calmed also in the last 2 days.

had no loose movement at all.

but still having on and off very pale stools .

but my stools have been pale very for the last 3 years so maybe more time needed.

but I have lots of energy feel pretty good otherwise apart from my mind of course.

but I have just had an infected full of  puss gangrenous gallbladder with dense adhesions that were cut down removed before we even mention the 2.3 cm stone ,not dark shadow but stone that's been stuck in cystic duct / neck the whole time and a 2.2cm one inside the diseased gallbladder removed.

And it was only 30 days ago !

so extremely lucky to be alive I think and think I'm doing ok.

just not mentally !

sandy.

what symptoms have you had over the last 5 years ?

 

Hi: 

Thank you for the reply.   I do not have too much symptoms for the last 5 years.  Just feel painful sometime. I think I am going to see Doctor again to find out what the shadow is.  I think you are pretty good now. Just keep going doing exercise and having a healthy diet. You will have a bright future.  God bless you and all of us!!

bye and good luck!!

Thanks sandy.

and you too, but please do get to the bottom of that shadow please !!

just do not leave it !!

 

Good stuff here to read I have gallbladder sludge and it’s recommended I have my gallbladder removed as it could get worse

Stephie2

bless you,

'can we talk ?

i care about you and would like to know what tests you've had done and what mess they have you on ect

and try help figure this out ,

thir has to be answer to what it is , and why did they say yr gallbladder had to come out originally.

it really has to be either yr liver or pancreas or bikers tree then.

please get back to me let's talk.

thanks.

I can relate a bit to this. I am worse off after removal. Op went fine and recovery too.  Then the dreaded nausea or diarrhoea with ache in right ribs.  Comes and goes. Dr says can do lots of tests but not to go there unless really necessary.  It has depressed me now as i want to do things but cant always go out.  I am restricting to very light diet to see if it helps.  I do like chocolate and am trying not to eat it when i feel ok, cant face it when im bad.

Sorry for the delay, I have been on holiday.  I have had just about every test known to man. 

I was listed for gallbladder removal after having an ultrasound and it showing a few gallstones.  Apparently according to a different Consultant 2 years on the majority of us will have gallstones and he thinks that there should have been more tests done before they just whipped it out!  I personally think all of this now stems from my 5cm hiatus hernia.....