My gall bladder may be on it's way out. Dr. appointment on Monday. Anybody else have problems. I have lower right side back pain and a half dozen other symptoms that seem to fit. Mike
Not sure about men Mike, but my wife and one of the ladies that I work with had thiers out, my wife would get sick and throw up like morning sickness, same with the work lady, they both had back pain. the surgery is pretty routine now, although my wife has some bladder control problems since, not so with the other lady altough my wife is 52 and Michelle is only 42. good luck I'lll keep you in the prayers,My gall bladder may be on it's way out. Dr. appointment on Monday. Anybody else have problems. I have lower right side back pain and a half dozen other symptoms that seem to fit. Mike
I'm glad your getting it checked out brother, my gall bladder almost killed me. Oct 8th of 2006 I awoke about 12:15 am in lower right abdomen pain and vomiting. I figured I had the flu and by 6:00 am I knew it wasn't the flu. Got to the hospital and they had to do emergency surgery. My gall bladder was the worst the surgeon had ever seen. I developed a bad infection and was in an induced coma for about 10 full days and a week of recovery after that. It changed my life. I never take a day for granted any more. no one is guaranteed tomorrow. Total cost $225,000 bucks to the insurance company. MMG
I've been very healthy all my life, very rarely ever even sick. Looking back I had about 6 to 8 month warning that something was wrong. I would get cramps with spicy foods, fatty foods, and just being very tired and week. I thought it was just from over working/stress. I just ignored it because I don't have time to be sick. Almost cost me my life. The surgeon said that the gall blader was 100% blocked by the time I got to the hospital and was gangrenous. I thank Jesus Christ everyday for sparing my life.Wow, what a story! Did the pain just come on without warning, or looking back, was there prior pain, or some other signs? Or from perfectly fine to waking up in pain out of nowhere? Glad you came through okay.
I've been very healthy all my life, very rarely ever even sick. Looking back I had about 6 to 8 month warning that something was wrong. I would get cramps with spicy foods, fatty foods, and just being very tired and week. I thought it was just from over working/stress. I just ignored it because I don't have time to be sick. Almost cost me my life. The surgeon said that the gall blader was 100% blocked by the time I got to the hospital and was gangrenous. I thank Jesus Christ everyday for sparing my life.
That sounds where I'm at. I go in on Monday. Off to emergency if I have problems during the weekend.
A good friend of mine went thru this. The attacks were very painful and were brought on by eating fatty or fried foods. As others have said, the surgery is a breeze. You're given general anesthesia. The surgeon makes a couple small incisions where he injects nitrogen into your abdomen to give himself space to work. Then using a camera (laproscope) he will snip your gallbladder, clamp it off, and fish it out your belly button. Later on that same day you go home. You will have a sore belly button and a bloated abdomen afterwords, that's all.