GB Surgery Scheduled

I'll keep you in my thoughts, Que. The green sludge can cause terrible pain, but it goes away after the surgery. Promise! It wasn't as rough as the WLS.

You know, I have a really high tolerance for pain and until they did the Hida Scan, I was in total deninal.  Those around me knew and I did not.

The Hida Scan made me sick for 3 days and I now know what everyone is talking about.  I have not been real sick since until today and you can have this day for sure.

I now reconize the right shoulder pain, I thought it was my arthritis.  I am now looking forward to feeling better.

With the RNY I was out doing yard work 3 days after surgery, so if this is easier I am going to bounce back quick...

I also mistook the pain for something else.  My first two times to experience the pain, I thought it was because of heavy lifting the day before (one day I'd worked out, another I'd moved some furniture, that sort of thing).  When I seriously began to have a problem, I'd moved furniture on Sunday. The pain started off and on on Monday. The nausea started on Thursday. By Saturday, my urine was dark and my stool was light, and I was in the ER being diagnosed with and treated for a kidney infection.  I pretty much wanted to kill anyone who brought food around me that day.  I thought the smell would make me vomit.  By the following Tuesday, I turned yellow, and I was back in the ER on Wednesday. That time they did the CT scan and found the gallstones.  Two ERCPs later, I was blockage free, becoming normal in color, but still getting nauseous due to pancreatitis. They finally released me over three days after I was admitted with instructions to stick to a liquid diet the first two or three days, then soft mechanical diet for the next week.

This last time (sans gallbladder), the pain started about 1 am on a Tuesday, the nausea started Tuesday evening, and I was jaundiced by Wednesday morning, right about the time my urine started turning dark.

I have had kidney stones. I have had gall stones. I have experienced dumping. The acuteness of the gallstones and the dumping are pretty much on par, but I was taking darvocet for the gallstone because, after an entire day of no relief, I was exhausted and tired of hurting and being nauseous. I didn't even say no when they gave me morphine at the hospital, and I hate morphine. Kidney infections feel pretty much the same, too, or at least, bad ones do. Renal colic, especially when prolonged, is worse.

All of that said, you will feel better after the surgery, almost instantly. I had my gall bladder out before my WLS, so 100+ pounds overweight. I was back at work a week later, but only because my doctor wouldn't let me drive for that first week. I was fine being out and about within a couple of days.