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Is gallbladder removal scheduled for next week premature?
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Hi, @wisewoman10 - glad you returned to tell more of your story. I, too, am glad this operation is behind you.
I recognize the pain at a booming 10 level that you mentioned. That is what I experienced. I thought it was worse than labor pain, at its height. It hurt so badly that when I got to the ER, I could not even sit on a chair. The only place to lie down was the floor. My decision to then lie down on the floor of the ER waiting room will tell you how much pain I was in, as I am not someone to ever lie on the floor in a public place. That got me taken back into the ER and roomed very quickly.
My pain from my gallbladder started out of the blue at the hairdresser's while my head was full of foils. I thought it was menstrual pain, so I mentioned it to the woman coloring my hair, who asked around for some acetaminophen. I took that and it made absolutely no impact, which was odd. I finally was sinking down in the styling chair in agony, but I could not really leave as I was mid-color. The stylist seemed to feel really bad for me. I went home afterward and asked my husband to take me to the hospital.
I remember a not too bad recovery, wisewoman10, just like @cahabagirl mentioned in her case.
What is your surgeon having you do for the constipation, wisewoman10?
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Lisa, that is quite a story! Between the hairdresser and lying on the floor in the ER, it really captures the experience of a gallbladder gone bad! My surgeon hasn't been all that helpful as far as the constipation goes. Standard advice - drink more water, take stool softeners, get exercise, all of which I've been doing. I had this same experience after my appendix ruptured in 2020. I think my abdomen is just cranky at this point and tired of being invaded with instruments and scalpels. Always grateful for a laparascopic procedure vs an open incision, however. I'm just doubling up on water, adding fiber gradually, walking as much as I can, etc. I tried both a Dulcolax suppository and a Fleet's enema, and both were useless. So now I'm just trying to relax about the whole thing and let nature take its course. I've had enough gas and brownish mucus production (gross, but that's how it's worked in my case) to know that I'm not impacted or anything. I guess it's just my common bile duct trying to figure out how to operate in its new home!