gallbladder removal

[Anonymous]

otherwise healthy 40 year old woman who has discovered my gallbladder is completely full of stones. no obvious symptoms related to this, but would it be proactive to have it removed?

[Anonymous]

What did the doctor say?
I was having severe gallstone attacks between 2009 and 2014 but none since as I changed my diet. I can live with them.

[Anonymous]

No! Why? Why would you do that if you don’t have to?

I can only see this if you were going to live in Antarctica or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did the doctor say?
I was having severe gallstone attacks between 2009 and 2014 but none since as I changed my diet. I can live with them.

Were you pregnant in there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No! Why? Why would you do that if you don’t have to?

I can only see this if you were going to live in Antarctica or something.

because it’s an easy surgery and better than ending up in emergency surgery later?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did the doctor say?
I was having severe gallstone attacks between 2009 and 2014 but none since as I changed my diet. I can live with them.

Were you pregnant in there?

No

[Anonymous]

I have mine removed, but my issue was one giant stone rather than many small ones (no idea which is worse/better). I used to wake up in the middle of the night from a dead sleep to extreme pain and would be gone by morning. By the time I got a surgical consultation I had figured out my triggers and would avoid them, and hadn't had an event in like 6 months. I am terrified of surgery, so didn't want to get it if I didn't have to. They basically said, it's only a matter of time before it happens again, because these stones don't go away, and mine was so big it would eventually block the narrow opening entirely (I completely forget all the technical jargon, sorry!). So basically it was get it done now laparoscopically, or risk needing emergency surgery, which may have to open up the entire abdomen, potentially while travelling to some random country with not as good medical care or something.

Anyways, I got it out during covid, so I had to go alone, cried the entire time until they knocked me out, woke up later, took the pain pills and it was alright. I was WFH and basically just took a day off and then still worked at home the day after. It was painful to sit up, like getting out of bed/using ab muscles, but overall not crazy. The scars were the worst part, which is so shallow of me, but I hate how they looked fresh. So purple and gross. Theyve faded now and its not as bad.

I haven't had a single issue since it's been out. No bathroom issues, still able to eat everything. It was a good decision for me, but surgery is still surgery, and idk if I'd ever recommend someone to undergo it electively. But again, I am super surgery averse! So ymmv. If you have any questions I am happy to answer as well

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:otherwise healthy 40 year old woman who has discovered my gallbladder is completely full of stones. no obvious symptoms related to this, but would it be proactive to have it removed?

Stones are the result of an unhealthy lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

I onlyhad mine removed because I was having attacks/ pain about once every 3 months. Like, call out of work type pain. Lots of people have stones and no symptoms, getting it removed wasn’t exactly a walk in the park (and I was 38, healthy, not overweight, and not currently having an attack when it was removed as a planned surgery so basically as low risk as you could get). I had to take a week off of work and it felt way more uncomfortable to me than the C sections had even though it was apostolic. Something about the location of the pain being higher up made it harder for me to move around. Oh and the trapped gas feeling in my shoulder for like 24 hours was brutal.

I’m glad I did it because I no longer have gallbladder attacks but if stones were found incidentally during a scan for something else??? No way. Lots of people have stones and no symptoms. You might never have symptoms.

Also having it out means that when you eat a fatty meal you have to sprint to have diarrhea afterwords because your gallbladder isn’t controlling the release of bile anymore. I only had this issue briefly but some people have it permanently.

[Anonymous]

Laproscopic not apostolic lol sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:otherwise healthy 40 year old woman who has discovered my gallbladder is completely full of stones. no obvious symptoms related to this, but would it be proactive to have it removed?

Troll alert? How exactly does a healthy person with no symptoms suddenly discover her gallbladder is completely full of stones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:otherwise healthy 40 year old woman who has discovered my gallbladder is completely full of stones. no obvious symptoms related to this, but would it be proactive to have it removed?

Troll alert? How exactly does a healthy person with no symptoms suddenly discover her gallbladder is completely full of stones?

not a troll. I have Gilbert’s syndrome and estrogen dominance which I believe are to blame…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:otherwise healthy 40 year old woman who has discovered my gallbladder is completely full of stones. no obvious symptoms related to this, but would it be proactive to have it removed?

Yes! If you haven't had a gallstone attack yet, consider yourself lucky. The pain of those attacks were way worse than unmedicated labor for me! You definitely don't want to experience that. The surgery is fairly easy and the recovery was steady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did the doctor say?
I was having severe gallstone attacks between 2009 and 2014 but none since as I changed my diet. I can live with them.

What foods caused them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What did the doctor say?
I was having severe gallstone attacks between 2009 and 2014 but none since as I changed my diet. I can live with them.

What foods caused them?

Anything very high fat. A cookie, a hotdog, ice cream. Bad stuff.