Other options for gallstones besides surgery?

I had the Open RNY on May 8th, 2001. I'm almost 9 months out and have lost 129 pounds of the 190 I hope to lose. My surgeon refused to take the gallbladder out when he did the bypass. (He said my insurance wouldn't cover it) I was almost 100% certain (with my luck)that I would have trouble. Sure enough I've been having pain and had an ultra sound this morning. My gallbladder is FULL of small stones. Anyway, I really need to have surgery on my arm because of problems relating to a fall I took on Oct. 6th. Basically my left arm is useless and finally a surgeon is willing do to the surgery on it, however now I've got problems with gallstones! The pain is intermittent. I've had three days pain (off and on) during the last 10 days. I really want to have the surgery on my arm as I have had over 3 months of physical therapy and nothing short of surgery is going to get my arm working and there will be much more therapy and of course time involved in healing. I don't want to wait any longer as spring is coming and I'd like to have use of my arm by then. However I don't know if gallstones are dangerous, how much worse the pain will get and if I dare let this go for a few months or more. I don't know if there is any treatments sort of surgery itself that will help, or if there are medicines. You are probably wondering if I took Actigal? Yes and no. I was prescribed it at about a month post op. I tried taking that and all my other "many" medications I'm on. I just couldn't take any pills for the first three months or so. They would stop mid throat and not go down. So I never did take the Actigal. I suspect at this point it wouldn't dissolve them as I think it is only designed to keep them from forming. As far as the possibility of having gallbladder surgery, I have ALOT of scar tissue inside. The WLS was my second abdominal surgery so I'm afraid this is going to be pretty tough. Are there other treatments besides surgery at this point so I can get my arm taken care of? Thanks.

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