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05-11-2015, 09:38 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL (Roll Tide!)
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Gall stones
Anybody had their gallbladder removed due to stones? Are you glad you did? If you had a choice would you do it again or try to live with the stones? I am having surgery in two days and I'm worried about it.
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05-11-2015, 09:43 PM
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Junior Member
National RV Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 21
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Easy Peasy
Very Common surgery and well worth it. With the gallbladder out, the bile has no place to hang out and form stones. If you leave it. the stones form and get caught trying to travel down the common bile duct.You never know when it will happen.
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05-11-2015, 09:52 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 582
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Wife has gall bladder out. Went in early AM, one-inch incision in the navel, walked out and was home by mid-afternoon. Up and around the next day.
The alternative was to take a chance on a clogged duct (her stones were mobile), and the possibility of infection, gangrene, a big abdominal opening, days of hospitalization, weeks of recovery, huge doses of antibiotics, etc. Oh, and the possibility of death from infection or complications.
Matt B
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1998 Foretravel U-320
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05-11-2015, 09:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: hanson ma
Posts: 234
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I had my gallbladder removed 5 years ago the doctor was planning to do it lapricoply but discovered it was so bad needed to open my whole belly up I have had no problems since
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05-12-2015, 12:03 AM
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Senior Member
Rexhall Owners Group
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 135
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Had mine out 2 years ago. Was having attacks for years that I thought were heartburn. Last attack went on for hours, went to the ER, diagnosed and removed the same day. I had to stay overnight and had a drain in place which they removed before I went home (that was no fun AT ALL!). It took me a few days to recover (not a lot of pain, though) and had some digestive issues afterward, but they have settled out. My attacks were coming frequently enough that removal was inevitable, so I just did it rather than stress over it. This was my first surgery so I had plenty of apprehension, and I'm sure the morphine made me more brave than I might have been otherwise.
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05-12-2015, 04:57 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 3,333
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Had mine out several years ago. Solved a lot of digestive problems. A late morning operation. Got me home late afternoon. Feel so much better. Best to get it done before a rupture or blockage. This can cause a lot of health problems.
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05-12-2015, 07:33 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL (Roll Tide!)
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Thanks for all the encouragment. I don't understand why I am so apprehensive about this, I have had more serious surgery in the past and didn't fret at all. Love to you all.
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05-12-2015, 09:56 AM
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Senior Member
Jayco Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 2,198
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05-12-2015, 10:26 AM
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Administrator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Newark, DE
Posts: 25,898
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Had mine removed, no more pain.
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05-12-2015, 10:39 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2014
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Don't worry, I had mine out several years ago, I put up with it for years until I had an attack while on vacation that landed me in the hospital. They got me well enough to get home and had the surgery the next week. I have had many surgeries and by far this was the easiest in several ways. I was home the next day with relatively minor discomfort. Within two days I felt good enough to go out for short walks and trips to the store, and within a week I was back at work. The best part was that awful pain you get with an attack has never come back, they say that pain is the closest thing you will feel to a heart attack, and in the old days they often treated patients for heart attacks when it was actually a gall bladder attack. Get it done and you will be so happy you did. Good Luck
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2014 Newmar Canyon Star 3610
Orange County, California
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05-12-2015, 05:29 PM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Montgomery, AL
Posts: 1,199
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Got mine out about 15 years ago now. Rates up there with "best things I ever did for myself". Went through the belly button and had two small holes. Went home same day as surgery and up and around the next day. Man, I felt so much better
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2009 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH
2014 Jeep Wrangler Sport
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05-12-2015, 06:08 PM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Indiana
Posts: 151
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No problemo! Had mine done back in late 80's or 1990. They called it band-ade surgery then. 3 little holes and my belly button cut. It was a new type of surgery then. I was the 1st person this hospital did it on. Before me it was just pigs. Recovery was nothing. Went home same day. Would do it again in a heart beat. It is probably even easier today.
cyn
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2010 Tiffin Phaeton 36QSH DP
2012 Jeep Liberty
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05-12-2015, 07:39 PM
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Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner iRV2 No Limits Club
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 179
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Had my done 15years ago so glad i did
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05-12-2015, 07:42 PM
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Member
Winnebago Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: WA
Posts: 63
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Modern surgery methods make it simple. You will never regret it and the relief is tremendous. You will wonder why you did not have it done sooner.
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