Re: Does Anyone Want To Talk About Gall Stones?
OOh not my favourite subject, far too painful. I was mis diagnosed with gastric flux , I thought it was a heart attack, in Feb a couple of years ago. i had shooting pains right up my chest
So Sue rushed me into hospital to have tests done and they mis diagnosed the problem. I then was taken into hospital twice more by ambulance with such extreme pain you woud not believe. Moving on to september that same year, yes it took that long, again rushed into hospital in extreme pain and this time they came to the conclusion it was gall stones. By this time my gall bladder was severely infected and also the ends of my pancreas.
it took about 4 weeks to get the infection down ,by which time I had lost considerable weight and they were worried if I was going to survive. They even said to Sue to warn her, it was that bad. I could not even lift myself up on the bed.
They even inserted a tube for me to pee through
So on intrevenous drips to keep body fluid up -oxogen and blood tests amd blood pressure tests every 4 hours. They got the infection down enough at last to operate to have the gall bladder removed. which caused the infection. I am left with 3 very small scars on my body where they cut me open, micro surgery.
if I were you I would insist on a CT scan which target a smaller area than an MRI scan , I had several of each .
Was I scared? definately not ever having had bad health all my life.
The operation itself I knew nothing about and the knock out injection worked by the time I had counted to 5 in the prep room . Came around back on the ward partially shaved around the belly button where one of the cuts were made.
Throughout all this I was told to be on low fat food.
So how am I now?
Ok got my weight back and living as before but no worries about that terrible pain returning.
My advice would be don't let the problem get out of hand like they did with me, if you need the operation to have the gall bladder removed then sooner than later as I found out nearly to the cost of my life
Well you did ask Artangel