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u812

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Don't really know how to start. Never really post much about stuff like this. Seems as though I have Gallbladder trouble. Been hurting for a while and finally went to be checked out. All symptoms seem to be Gallstones. Tender Pancreas,hurting in the pit of my stomach going to back and shoulder. Going Monday for ultrasound and hydro flush I think they said. Best case change of diet,worst removal of Gallbladder. I have made it right at 46 years now with no surgeries and never been put under,not even when I had my wisdom teeth out. I don't have a fear of much but the thought of being put under anesthesia really scares me. I know thousands are everyday but that doesn't help much.
Anyone else had Gallstones and how did it turn out?
Thanks for reading,no one really to talk to about it,wife does not really understand my worries as she has had several procedures done.
 
Sorry to hear it, man. My wife almost underwent surgery to remove her gallbladder at the age of 30. Something just didn't seem right about that. Long story short, the problems were due to a her birth control pills (Yaz). Once she quit taking them all problems stopped. She still has her gallbladder and some surgeon has fewer funds for golf.

Now, I'm pretty certain birth control pills aren't your problem U812... but the story bears repeating in that medications can and often cause more issues in you're body than diseases or disorders can cause.

Hope this helps. I believe that we should be very cautious in removing body parts the good Lord gave us. 2nd and 3rd opinions are very appropriate. ;)

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Good buddy's father had one, but he just starting yelling for an ambulance

afterwards, he said that was the most painful thing hes ever been through, and he suffered neck anf back injuries.
 
I can see how they could be really painful. Mine are not that bad unless I eat something very fatty and oily. Motrin takes care of the worst of it. I take no medications except for Motrin and high blood pressure med that I just started last week.
 
I guess if the ultrasound shows stones or blocked ducts I will be seeing a specialist.
 
Hope all goes well man.

Danged bodies..

After all we do for them.

Legal, illegal, moral, and immoral...

Ingrates...
 
I had mine removed at about 31 years of age. Dealt with the pain for about a year, mostly back. Doctor couldn't figure out why my back was hurting. Finally, after a year and a half of tests, I ate a double bacon cheeseburger, fries and a milk shake one day. Felt really sick and drained, woke up the next day and went to work and as soon as my boss saw me he told me to go see my doctor. I told him I was fine, he said to go look in the mirror. I had jondice really bad, eyeballs were nice and yellow. Went to see my doctor and they have me emergency surgery they next day. Everything was clogged with stones, had 15 stones in my ducts and at least that many in the gallbladder itself.

7 years later I have no issues and just a small scar on my belly.
 
They can break them up with ultrasound if they are small enough, mine were to far gone to do that with.
 
I just had my gallbladder removed a couple months ago. I was diagnosed 6 years ago and decided to treat by modifying my diet. Adding veggies and cutting down on numerous higher fat foods helped, but it seemed that I kept having to remove foods from my diet. I couldn't have a bowl of cereal or a peanut butter sandwich without having a painful attack. And the attacks always seemed to happen at 1 am! I would have about one attack a month.

I had never had surgery before, either, and delayed this surgery for that very reason. The peculiar thing about that is that I work in the medical field. As a paramedic, I've put numerous people under and intubated them and now I'm studying to do the same as a nurse (eventually nurse anesthetist). My work didn't stop me from being nervous about the procedure.

As it turned out, it was a great experience. The anesthetist gave me the versed before I got into the operating room and I only remember about ten seconds beyond that. Next thing I knew, I was waking up from a restful sleep. I had a single gallstone, 2cm by 1.5cm. Recovery wasn't bad either. I was up and pacing around the house almost immediately after the surgery. I really didn't experience any pain unless I tried lifting too much too soon - give yourself a month before you push it. I was back to work (moderate duty) in a couple weeks. Looking back, I wish I hadn't delayed in getting the surgery.

Hope this helps. Good luck with it!
 
A few years ago I had a pain in my upper left abdomen for months. Nothing severe, just a minor irritation, like a mild stitch. I eventually got round to wondering if it might be gallstones, and found instructions on-line for a 3-day diet to flush them - basically you take nothing but apple juice for 3 days, then at the end you drink about a pint of olive oil mixed with lemon juice. Not a very fun diet, but to my amazement it actually worked - the pectin in the apple juice softens the gall stones, and then the sudden intake of fat makes the gall-bladder go into over-drive and flushes them out.

I doubt it would work for very severe cases - I had many small stones, but no large ones. If you are already seeing the doc, best just to wait for their advice.
 
My wife, wonderful as she is, can also be very stubborn. She had similar symptoms for a long time but didn't want to "bother" seeing a doctor. Finally one afternoon she was hurting BAD, and wanted to go to the emergency room. Once there, the doctor spoke with her and had an x-ray taken. While it was being developed he also spoke with a surgeon; as soon as the x-ray was done they showed it to us. It looked like she had been shot with a load of bird-shot! Thankfully, the surgeon said that she was staying there and scheduled surgery. After it was all over, my wife said that she should have listened to me and gone to the doctor! She has felt great ever since the surgery.

Moral of the story: see a doctor and follow his/her instructions, and don't fear the surgery!;):thumbup:
 
Get it taken care of.
I ignored the pain for years.....tried to tough it out.
My wife is an RN and was always bugging me to get checked out....stubborn me wouldn't.

One really bad episode had me up all night......couldn't lay down because of the pain.....walked around my neighborhood most of the night. This wasn't the first all-nighter, but when the sun started to come up and I was sweating like a pig with no relief in the pain........DUH, I figured something wasn't right. I woke my wife up and said I needed to go to the ER.

She wanted to call an ambulance, but I said no. On the way, my back, shoulders and the back of head went numb.......but I didn't say anything to my wife. She had warned me before about symptoms of heart attacks and had said the dumbest thing people do is drive themselves to the hospital.....and it's too late.

So imagine the look on my wife's face when I started telling the folks in the ER that I had excruciating pain and my head,shoulders, arms were going numb.........pissed and scared. They rushed me to the cardiac care unit.

They did all the heart tests which all came back basically fine and for the pain they pushed dilaudid through my IV.
The Doc was talking with my wife, telling her that I wouldn't be feeling any pain now and that when they got me stabilized I could probably just go home and rest. Five seconds after the Doc said that I felt a burning pain like I had never felt. I was trying to get off the gurney and they had to strap me down.

The Doc says I shouldn't be feeling any pain with all they had given me, so they knocked me out. They did a scan and it turned out my gall bladder burst while in the cardiac care unit.

Well, long story short........I got my ambulance ride to a bigger hospital that was better suited to do the emergency surgery.

All is well now .
 
Hey Jeff,

I started having problems back in early 2005. I was 32 at the time and sometimes I would tell my wife "my liver hurts". My attacks started happening at night. My doctor thought it was kidney stones and gave me pain pills till I passed them. I don’t even like taking Tylenol, just don’t like pills. I do have a high tolerance for pain but let me tell you, the doctor was wrong. My gallbladder was going bad.

After a couple of weeks of attacks and just popping a couple pills to deal with it, one night it got so bad I had to go to the ER, morphine did not help. I was throwing up yellow liquid everywhere in the ER room. ER doc said stomach virus. My wife said she didn't think so, they discharged me. Later that day at a different hospital they said my gallbladder needed to come out.

When the doctor operated on me my gallbladder was the size of a banana and full of stones. Gangrene had set in. It was bad he told me later. He told me in 5000 surgeries it was the worst one he had ever seen. I was lucky. I had never had a surgery but I was in so much pain that I thought I would die. Worst pain I have had or EVER had. If I had kept taking pills and ignored it I would have died.

My surgery went fine, I felt SO MUCH better after the surgery. I did have to spend a couple days in the hospital after the surgery because they wanted to make sure that everything was ok.

After a month I was back to normal and l felt great. If I had time to really think about the surgery I would have worried too. I just got a pre-cancer spot on my back cut off last week and needed 10 stitches and I didn’t even like the thought of that and I was awake!

Hang in there and if it needs to come out you will feel so much better. We are here for you brother.
 
I was having what I thought were "gas pockets" in my back, for a few months. The pain was horrible, but there would be some relief after burping. One day I was at work, vomming behind one of the buses because the pain was so bad. A co worker ratted me out and the dispatcher made me go home. I drove to the hospital and there found out that my gall bladder was bad and needed to come out. Going under was not that bad, I have rotten panic attacks sometimes, and I didn't even have time to panic. My advice to you is, make sure there is soup and fluids in the house for after the surgery, if you have to have it taken out. My ex didn't even have these essentials on hand for me. I ended up driving myself to the store the day after I came home. The ride there and back high was not something I'd recommend. Anyway, 4 years later, no crazy pain, and only 3 tiny scars. Avoiding certain foods after the surgery will help with bathroom issues. Good Luck, and try to not freak out too much. The only other surgery I had was 20 years prior to this one and I was terrified. I asked the doctor if we could just not do surgery lol. He said if my tube burst, I'd die, so I figured I better have the surgery. The fallopian tube had grown to the size of a grapefruit, which is almost unheard of, to reach that point and not burst.
I will keep you in my thoughts and really, if you are too panicky, don't be afraid to ask for something to calm you down.
 
If the ultra sound doesn't work, please just do the surgery. I let mine go for a couple years living with gallbladder attacks every few months, and finally had one of those "the pain just doesn't stop" nights spewing yellow bile. Ended up with a totally freaked out wife in the ER at 5:00am. That last attack was the most painful thing I have experienced to date. They diagnosed it, and took my gallbladder our that morning. I spent one day in the hospital and I felt so much better! I was home the next day and up and around in 48 hrs, back to work in 3 days, and pain free in 2 weeks. I didn't even need the pain meds after the third day. That was 5 years ago and, all have to show for it are a tiny 1" scar and two 1/2" scars you can barely see.

I hope you feel better soon, and the ultra sound works for you! :)
 
The ultrasound is to see if they can see the stones,the hydro flush is to see how the bile is moving through the ducts.
Wow! This many here have had problems,must be very common. I have cut way down on fats in my foods the last couple days and it has helped. I have gotten those numb feelings in my back and back of head a couple times,glad to hear they are a symptom of this. How I went in to have this checked was because my wife works in a walk in clinic and she was telling the doc about what I was complaining about the night before. He told her to call and have me come in as it could be a heart attack. He listened to my heart,ran an ekg and said my heart looked fine.
 
Try not to over think this and worry about it too much, find something fun and distracting to do and try to enjoy
the weekend.

Doctors are very good at what they do, fixing people. I've had two surgeries where I had to be put
under (shattered elbow and double hernia) and both went much easier than I expected. MD's
go out of their way to make things as painless and stress free as possible.

You might not even need surgery, try to stay positive. To quote Tom Petty: "the waiting is the hardest part"
 
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