Yieeee! Gall stones

[asleepathewheel]

Good Luck!

I'd recommend a background check on the surgeon and ask around to see if you know anyone who has used him, even though its a "routine" surgery.

One of my cases is a gallbladder removal case-they're ugly when they go wrong...

[Blaupanzer]

Passing the stone is almost incomprehensibly painful. However, if you felt well enough to leave, that one had passed. Now you need to work with a medical person you trust to determine if this is chronic or more of a one-time thing. There will be more eventually unless the gall bladder goes. However, that gland has a use in your endocrine system and it could be years before the next stone.

As to Grandpa Troll, 46 stones leaves them no choice: bye-bye gall bladder.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
As to Grandpa Troll, 46 stones leaves them no choice: bye-bye gall bladder.

Yeah. Apparently, I have an entire covey in there.

[Lancer]

Just right out of the blue? When do you get your operations? Get well soon!

Is there anything you could have done to avoid this? Like drink rum and hot choco or something...

[Barnabas]

This thread has changed my life.

I got my gall bladder removed back in 2003, now I can be sure that is the reason for the chronic diarrhea (the doctors did not tell me anything about it) Although, sincerely, I have always suspected it.

[Dinner]

I drink a ton of water and pray that means I will never get a gall stone.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
Is there anything you could have done to avoid this? Like drink rum and hot choco or something...

D'oh!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
Just right out of the blue? When do you get your operations? Get well soon!

Right out of the blue. Saturday morning my stomach started to ache. I figured it was indigention, so I popped a couple of anti-acids, which did nothing. It kept getting worse, so went into the ER.

1st operation is on Friday morning. That's on the common bile duct. I'm going to push for the gall bladder removal soon thereafter. I'm willing to screw up my Christmas, but not my trip to the Phils.

The box of goodies finally got toted down to LBC today. They guy said (as I suspected) that I had missed the cut off to get it to the Phils by Christmas. The next week there'll be no deliveries. So it should arrive during the 1st week in January.

[Docfeelgood]

lay off the fat.


BTW
Blame your genes pool

[Docfeelgood]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
I had a stone thingy once - the most excruciating agony of my life. It was only when they gave me the strongest painkiller in the hospital (probably morphine) that I passed out and awoke a few hours later with the thing gone (passed through on its own) and life was worth living again.

Your lucky.
Most of all my patients do not get pain medication till after surgery.

[Theben]

I went the doctor and they said I might have a kidney stone ~1 year ago. After many tests and various doctors ho-humming over charts they determined that my insurance company had too much money and billed them $3200, of which the insurance graciously passed along $900 to me.

The lesson is: don't go to the doctor unless you have awesome insurance, are fabulously wealthy or are dying.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Theben

The lesson is: don't go to the doctor unless you have awesome insurance, are fabulously wealthy or are dying.

...or live in an industrialized country other than the U.S. and thus have free health care.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood


Your lucky.
Most of all my patients do not get pain medication till after surgery.

You can't really be a doctor with spelling that bad.

[Theben]

You've obviously never seen a handwritten message from a doctor.

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


...or live in an industrialized country other than the U.S. and thus have free health care.