rny and gall bladder

Why is it that alot of RNY paients have thier gallbladder removed during or a few yrs later?

David B.

They took my mom's during her VSG because "well, we were in there already..."

David,

If you and your pardner are still pre-op SERIOUSLY consider letting your surgeon snatch that thing while he/she is in there.  Not an MD so can't explain what goes wrong with them but all I know is 18 months past my RNY and I get mine out tomorrow morning.

Took a year of Actigall post op and still have sludge and pain in right rear rib area of my back.  Hindsight being what it is, 20/20, would have spent the money and let Dr. Kuhn latch on to it while he was in there when I had my RNY.

On the day of orientation... my surgeon said insurance companies don't want to pay to have the Gall Bladder out at the same time as RNY. I already have gall stones.  I too am on Actigall.  I guess now it's just a matter of time before they take it out.

My doc said that he will not remove both becuase if you have problems after surg. It can be hard to tell if its something with the Gallbladder or with the RNY.

The copy and paste below was from Oct 5 of this month.  At the local support group we had the local WLS surgeon speak...
I asked him about RNY and the gallbladder...taking them out at the same time.  He said he doesn't like to do that unless it presents a problem at the same time the WLS is occuring.  He said about 15% of RNY patients will have problems with their gallbladder post WLS.  He said as a surgeon if RNY and Gallbladder are taken care of at the same time it becomes difficult for the surgeon to diagnose post WLS problems that can occur.  Was it an organ that was nicked or other problems...It becomes harder for the surgeon to spot the problems doing both at the same time. 

I had Rny 10/1/2008.  Dr. told me when he got inside me, if it looked bad, It was coming out.  He did take it out during my RNY. I think it might have slowed up my recovery a liitle bit but I'm glad it is gone.  I think I was having issues with it for a coupe of years prior.

My surgeon requires you to get preop screening on your gallbladder. If it's bad he will pull it during the surgery. I got mine removed when I got the bypass.

My surgeon automatically takes out everyone galbladder during the RNY surgery. I am glad, He said my galbladder looked bad anyway. Before surgery I had chest pain all the time. After the chest pain is gone.

My surgeon found I had gall stones in the pre-op testing and took it out one week prior to my RNY. He does not like to do them at the same time.

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