Just got back from ER , gallstones

traceyls57
on 7/14/12 2:06 pm

Anyone else had these? They suggest I go to my lap and surgeon for surgery. What is my best course of taking care of this?

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(deactivated member)
on 7/14/12 2:14 pm - Wiesbaden, Germany

DS on 10/08/13

I had my gallbladder taken out during my lapband surgery due to gallstones.

It's fairly common for gallbladder to go south after WLS, which is why a lot of surgeons routinely remove the gallbladder (and, sometimes, the appendix) during WLS. Once your gallbladder has compromised by forming gallstones, it's going to keep on forming stones. The treatment is removal of the gallbladder.

You can go to a general surgeon, a gastro surgeon or a bariatric surgeon to remove a gallbladder. Due to the lapband, the bariatric surgeon is probably the best bet.

Sorry it has happened to you.

Stephanie M.
on 7/14/12 2:42 pm

I had my gallbladder out last October. My gastric surgeon did it and I was home 4 hours after surgery. The recovery was easy. The biggest issue was post op nausea, which was gone the next day...

6-7-13 band removed. No revision. Facebook Failed Lapbands and Realize Bands group and WLS-Support for Regain and Revision Group

pineview01
on 7/14/12 4:25 pm - Davison, MI

Lap Band on 02/25/09

Sorry to hear you are going thru this along with everything else.

BAND REMOVED 9-4-12-fought insurance to get sleeve and won! Sleeved 1/22/13! Five years out and trying to get that last 15 pounds back off.

Hislady
on 7/15/12 7:02 am - Vancouver, WA

Lap Band on 10/19/07

Yep very common after WLS. Had mine out last year, had a stone the size of a golf ball! As surgeries go it was pretty easy, less pain than the band and quick recovery.

Stephanie M.
on 7/15/12 7:25 am

Mine was golf ball sized too!

6-7-13 band removed. No revision. Facebook Failed Lapbands and Realize Bands group and WLS-Support for Regain and Revision Group

heathercross
on 7/15/12 8:19 am - New York, NY

Revision on 06/23/11

Almost everyone I knew who had an RNY in 2002 with me, had their gallbladder removed when they did their RNY. Some docotrs don't like to remove a healthy organ though and many, if not most post-WLS patients develop gall stones later. It can be done lap and its a pretty minor procedure. get it done now before you have another attack/episode.

Cheryl N.
on 7/16/12 2:04 am - Des Moines, WA

Revision on 08/01/11

The best thing is to have gallbladder removed. I had mine taken out two years ago on 7/19/2010 and never had any sypmtoms after that. Best thing ever and it was an easy surgery and recovery. I was up and around the next day and driving!

246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.

traceyls57
on 7/16/12 12:19 pm

Lap Band on 09/10/08

Thanks everyone for making me feel so much better. Now just waiting to see if my local doctor can get me into a gastric surgeon here so he is familiar with the band.

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pineview01
on 7/16/12 1:00 pm - Davison, MI

Lap Band on 02/25/09

Good Luck girl!

BAND REMOVED 9-4-12-fought insurance to get sleeve and won! Sleeved 1/22/13! Five years out and trying to get that last 15 pounds back off.

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