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09-29-2009, 03:55 PM
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I went to my wls dr and told him I was having pain on my right side. He said it was probably my gallbladder. What are the signs of a gallbladder attack? And has anyone experienced this and had surgery after wls? Thanks 
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09-29-2009, 07:37 PM
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It's quite common, actually. It's a sharp. persistent pain in the side that may be related to what and when you eat. If it is the GB, there is no way it will heal itself or get better without cutting it loose.
The pre-op US found that my gall bladder was full of rocks, so the doc pulled it while he was in the area. Two for the price of one!
Good luck with it!
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My pain was centered right in the middle, not on either side. It felt like it was right in my stomach, which is why I didn't know what it was at first. I had always heard the pain was on your side. I ended up in the ER 3 weeks before my surgery with the most horrible pain I've ever had. When they did the ultrasound and found my huge gal stone, they wanted to operate that night, but I told them that I had WLS in three weeks and that my surgeon would just pull it then. They just gave me some vicodin for the pain.
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Early on, if you don't have a stone blocking the duct, the pain is minimal. I would notice a slight ache up under my right ribcage shortly after eating. It's possible that your liver enzymes will be elevated on a blood test but the ultimate decider is the ultrasound.
Once you get a stone blocking the duct you are going to have the worst pain of your life. It usually is on the right, but can be more to the middle or up in the shoulders.
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I had an attach about 3 wks after WLS in which I had HORRIBLE pain in the middle of my chest right at the top of my ribcage. I could not get ANY relief that night. I sat, stood, layed flat, walked but NOTHING helped. I called my surgeon in the middle of the night and the doc on call told me that if the pain didn't get better (after taking Mylican drops and TUMS) in 30 mins to go to the ER. The pain did ease up where I could finally go to sleep and was completely gone away the next day. On my next checkup with my surgeron, I asked him about it and he said that it sounded like my gallbladder. He said that if I get another attack that he would do an ultrasound and we would look into doing something about it. Luckily, I haven't had anymore attacks!
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Thanks for the information. Ultra sounds has been ordered. Keep you posted.
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Hope all goes well with the ultrasound. Is surgery the only way to remove the gall bladder? Can't they snag it from endo?
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The surgery is mainly lap now. Leaves less scarring than the old 6" incision and both hands in the cavity. But there is no way to get a GB out other than going in and getting it. I had gall stones over an inch long and they somehow got the whole thing out through a buttonhole!! (Darn, that guy is good!!) 
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The first surgeries done by lap were the gall bladder surgeries.
Hope all turns out fine.
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Doc, correct me if I'm wrong here, but I seem to remember that Peanut had a lap procedure back in the early '80s to deal with an ectopic pregnancy. I know they cut out the tube, but she has no scar to show for it.
The lap GB surgeries, which up to then had been considered experimental, were first approved by the insurance companies back in the 1991-92 time frame. Peanut's GB went bad on her about then, and the doc told her to hang in for a bit until this new technique was approved so she could avoid open surgery. (He had done his reading and knew it was really close.) Having just gone home and helped her mother through the open GB operation and recovery, she stuck it out for an extra 3-4 months. It was rough!!
The surgeon who did it was one of the pioneers of this technique. At the time he did my wife, he had done about 300 procedures, and no one in the country had done more than he had. He came out and talked to me, and gave me a video of the operation. Told me that this was the diciest he'd done, and they almost had to go open because the bladder was falling apart. Peanut won't watch it, but it's obvious it was fighting him the whole way because it had so many adhesions to the liver from all the GB attacks she'd had. I've watched it once. Showed me a whole new side of Peanut that I had never seen - the inside!
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