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A lot of it probably depends on the person's health going into the surgery. In my case it was originally going to be an outpatient procedure, but then my bile duct got blocked and I spent a week in a hospital bed on an all-liquid diet before they could safely take the gallbladder out. After that, it was about a week of recovery at home before I felt strong enough to go back to work (even though it was still laparoscopic surgery).
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A few weeks before my surgery I had an MRI of the area so the surgeon could map out where all the ducts and tubes and such were so she could best work out reconnecting paths and all that. I'm guessing that helped speed up the actual surgery. In a consultation she said gallbladder removal surgeries have a 97% rate of zero complications (I take that to mean they go as planned with no surprises), then she added that most of those remaining 3% are due to emergency situations and not operations like mine that had over a month of prep time.
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Gallbladder removals are the second most common cause of emergent surgeries, if I remember right.
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Guess who has no thumbs and just got his gallbladder removed This guy.
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Foxfire_ posted:Guess who has no thumbs and just got his gallbladder removed I didn't even know cats had gallbladders, although I guess it isn't completely surprising.
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Foxfire_ posted:Guess who has no thumbs and just got his gallbladder removed Poor baby! Is he ok?
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He's doing pretty well. Everything is healing fine and he started eating once he got home, so that feeding tube isn't actually needed
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My parents both have theirs out. My reflux is under control, but my guts are just gently caress
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How's it going OP?
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I'm scrubbing two gallbladder cases this afternoon!! Yeah!!
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how many gallbladders are in a case?
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Bad Purchase posted:how many gallbladders are in a case? Just one, but they're usually full of stones Gallstones are weird, they're always super smooth because they rub against each other in the gallbladder like river rocks
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I’m still mad they wouldn’t give me my gallbladder after it was removed. I want any piece of my body that gets removed but they stole it 
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I have a vhs tape somewhere of my wife’s gall bladder removal years ago. She has lovely intestines
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DamnCanadian posted:I have a vhs tape somewhere of my wife’s gall bladder removal years ago. She has lovely intestines I have one of my mom’s gallbladder removal, the best part is they taped it over someone else’s procedure so there’s some of that at the end. That person had some disgusting looking dirty guts.
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What does a Gallbladder attack feel like? How do I know I'm going to be a future victim?
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It feels alarmingly like a heart attack (note: I haven’t had one of those to compare). Shortness of breath, pain in the middle of your chest radiating into the back, and nausea, I also broke out in a sweat but that might have been because of the pain? They’re usually triggered by eating food with high fat content, so it’ll come on within a couple hours after a meal. The bad attacks that I had all happened while eating but I’ve heard that’s not the most likely scenario. As for predicting it, I’m not sure we can!
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For me it felt like the whole of my upper abdomen under the ribs was a towel being slowly wrung tighter and tighter. And no matter what I did (mostly hot baths) did anything to lessen it. These would last a few hours. The pain is constant, awful, relentless.
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When I went back for my follow up they went over my lab results from when they counted and measured the stones, but they didn't keep any of it. They stole my stones! The biggest stone was apparently partially embedded in the wall of the gallbladder and made it hard for any other stones to slide by and get out.
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The biggest one I've ever seen was the size and shape of a chicken egg
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you aint a real goon unless you needed yours removed in your twenties.
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sigher posted:What does a Gallbladder attack feel like? How do I know I'm going to be a future victim? I had significant abdominal pain, but my tolerance is so high it took me forever to actually go to the hospital for it. By the time I went in it was apparently about ready to explode, and had stones about the size of the tip of my index finger. I think the more important signs to watch out for are ones that I only learned about after the fact: gas, oily poop, light-colored poop, and some degree of diarrhea. For months a lot of the time after a meal it was like I had swallowed a coyote or my stomach was generating whalesong - it was loud. The pain didn't start for a long time after the other symptoms, but since there is poo poo in terms of public education about gallbladder stuff I had no idea anything was going on until it was emergency surgery time.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I think the more important signs to watch out for are ones that I only learned about after the fact: gas, oily poop, light-colored poop, and some degree of diarrhea. Well poo poo.
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Peggy Edson posted:What the gently caress
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