| Re: gallbladder sludge
Hi again. Please take a look at my post entitled Update from MSNik after seeing GI and Surgeon.
I had no symptoms. I had very little pain and it usually resolved on its own within a few hours. I was also terrified of surgery. I went through with it but even as they were wheeling me into the ER, I thought about stopping it.
Turned out that my cystic duct, the duct which connects the liver to the gallbladder and allows Bile in- was necrotic. The tissue was dead. The next step is it would have been gangrene which might have killed me. There was absolutely NO way to tell this from the ultrasound, MRI or CT Scan and since I had so few symptoms, it was really hard for me to wrap my head around taking out a "perfectly fine organ" or so I thought.
I trusted my Surgeon. He was positive that it didnt look right and that the symptoms were from the gallbladder. He couldnt have been more right and in making me do this, might have actually saved my life.
Dont believe everything you read online. Some of it are horror stories which are made up, none of it is verified or screened. The only thing you can do is read about real people's experiences here and then trust your doctor/ surgeon.
I guarantee that you can live normally without a gallbladder and yeah- surgery stinks. The recovery though, is NOT the end of the world! One week off and Im back at work and pretending it never happened. Almost 2 weeks since surgery and my incisions are already healing and look great- and Im back to eating more and more each day. You'll be sorry if you dont do it and you have an emergency, but I dont think youll be sorry if you do it.
Since my surgery, I have now met at least 25 people who tell me they had theirs out. I havent heard a single person say they regret it.
Me, especially!
MSnik
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