Soooo... gallbladder is going bye-bye.

Which is what I figured, from the get-go. I was away from home for Class A CDL Training when I'd taken ill with upper abdominal pain, swelling, bloating, and nausea.

It took 20 days from the first onset of symptoms, to finally make a solid determination and get surgery scheduled. I should have just gone to a GI specialist right away. It would have saved alot of pain, time and of course... money. I see the surgeon Monday morning to schedule the gallbladder removal, hopefully sooner than later.

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Confined · 56-60, M Best Comment

I had mone out in my 20's. Yeah you should have had an ultrasound when it started.
Be very careful what you eat after you get your gall bladder out. Fatty food will make you sick sick sick. It takes your body a while to adjust.

Levenrack · 46-50, M

@Confined Yeah I'm aware, how it CAN mess with your digestion. Now I'll see how it WILL mess with my digestion.

Also I left alot out. I went to the Urgent Care 3 times in that time frame. 1st time- I got the first ultrasound, no indication of abnormal gallbladder. (But, there's a impression of gallbladder inflammation and sludge) I'm told go low-fat diet to reduce the swelling and inflammation.

2nd time- CT Scan and bloodwork. Scan comes back unremarkable (so normal gallbladder?) and labs show spiked up liver readings. (Wtf is going on?) I see my regular doctor. She refers me to the GI Specialist.

Before that appointment happened. On another night I wake up in serious unrelenting pain. I drive 25 minutes to the closest ER (UC). I get something for the pain and they finally send me home with painkillers, other than telling me to take acid reducers and Ibuprofen every 4-6 hours.

I saw the GI and he basically said "ok well everything you've said and everything I looked over, shows there's something definitely hiding behind all these scans and bloodwork." I didn't say it, but you probably know what I was thinking.

He orders another ultrasound and the Hida scan. I go back to the clinic were I got the first US, and they do another one, but this time it takes them 30-35 minutes instead of 8-10 minutes.

I never had to go to the Hida scan. They found so many things wrong that, weren't the impression. It was factual now. ::sigh::

Confined · 56-60, M

@Levenrack Good they figured it out.