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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]emergency gallbladder removal this weekend. still trying to process it all. what is life like after removal? medical team says things should be fine, go back to normal etc, but would appreciate hearing from someone who is several months or years removed from the surgery. [/quote]

Mine was not emergency--years ago, I had no insurance and no money and went through a 7 month process to be found medically needy by the state so Medicaid would pay for it. I had terrible attacks but had been told by my primary about watching for signs of infection (I knew someone whose husband had died not many years ago--ignored his gall bladder issues, developed infection, a year of suffering in the hospital--up and down--and died, at the age of 37).

I lost a lot of weight because I was afraid to eat.

I had laproscopic surgery so most of the discomfort was because they blow up your belly like a balloon so like pain from doing more sit-ups than you ever did in your life.

I celebrated by having my partner take me to our favorite restaurant for cheesecake.

Three months later I got a package in the mail from the hospital, containing my gallstones (this would not happen today, when you can't even have you kid's baby tooth if a dentist had to pull it).

Supposedly some people have some digestive problems but I have never noticed any difference. Some years later, an x-ray for another reason turned up an enlarged common bile duct, possibly a result of the prolonged gall bladder disease, but even that was 12 years ago and no identified problems from that. [/quote]

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